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Month: October 2013

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament amends Foreigners Act to enable residence for investment

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

Foreigners will be able to get permanent residence in Bulgaria if they have invested at least a million leva (about

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Business 

President Plevneliev backs potential of EU-US trade partnership talks for Bulgaria

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

Bulgaria strongly supports the spirit and purpose of the envisaged Transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement between the United States

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Europe 

EU leaders meet as US spying allegations build

October 24, 2013October 24, 2013 VOANews

Leaders of the European Union’s 28 nations will meet in Brussels on Thursday as controversy swirls over allegations the U.S.

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Bulgaria Sport 

Bulgaria’s sentenced Olympian expelled from Brazil

October 24, 2013February 11, 2014 Alex Bivol

Bulgaria’s Olympic weightlifting champion Gulubin Boevski, sentenced to nine years and four months imprisonment in Brazil last year on charges

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Bulgaria 

8000 refugees in Bulgaria, to reach 11 000 by end of the year – Interior Ministry

October 24, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

There are close to 8000 refugees in Bulgaria and the number is expected to reach 11 000 by the end

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Minister confirms he used ‘FYROM’ name

October 24, 2013October 24, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kristian Vigenin, Macedonia

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin confirmed on October 23 that during a visit to meet his counterpart in Athens a

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Perspectives 

Moldova caught in East-West tug of war

October 24, 2013May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Moldova, Russia

For centuries, Moldovans have been proud of their wines. Outside Chateau Vartely, flags snapping in the breeze reflect the variety

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Europe 

Turkey’s row with NATO about Chinese missiles continues

October 24, 2013October 24, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Nato, Turkey

NATO insists on warning Ankara against the decision to acquire long-range missile systems from China. Following a defence ministers meeting

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Greek New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras
Europe 

Greece’s coalition government lays out policy targets

October 24, 2013October 24, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

As Eurostat released data on Wednesday showing Greece’s public debt reached 169.1 percent of the country’s GDP in the second

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