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Month: October 2013

Business 

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court rules that tax on deposit interest is legal

October 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the taxation of income from bank deposits that had been paid in advance was

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria speeds process of granting refugee status

October 25, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

Bulgaria has granted formal refugee status to 170 people in the past 20 days alone, bringing the count in the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government trying to dig itself out of land sale moratorium hole

October 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Socialist Party government wants to find a way to scrap the resolution handed to it by Parliament, supported

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian couple questioned in ‘Maria’ case

October 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

DNA tests were to be conducted on a Bulgarian couple who were questioned by police for more than three hours

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Europe 

The Guardian: US spied on 35 world leaders

October 25, 2013October 27, 2013 Kent Klein of VOANews

The Guardian newspaper reports that White House, Pentagon and State Department officials confirm the United States spied on the phone conversations

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Bulgaria 

Clocks change to winter time on October 27 2013

October 24, 2013October 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Clocks in Bulgaria change to winter time at 4am on October 27 2013, going back an hour to 3am. Bulgaria

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Bulgaria 

Easing Bulgaria’s smoking ban: Economy committee for, health committee against

October 24, 2013October 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff smoking

A question mark hangs over the bid to backtrack Bulgaria’s full ban on smoking in enclosed public places such as

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Europe 

Georgia presidential election: Ivanishvili ally Margvelashvili set for victory, polls say

October 24, 2013October 24, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Georgia

Voters in the Caucasus republic of Georgia are being called to vote in presidential elections on October 27 2013 to

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Europe 

Czech Republic: Election may open door to Communists

October 24, 2013October 24, 2013 Kevin Livingston for The Prague Post Czech Republic

Czechs are heading to the polls on October 25 and 26 2013 to elect a government for the first time

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