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Year: 2013

Leisure 

What’s on: Bansko Jazz Festival

August 8, 2013August 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s mountain resort of Bansko, best known for its ski slopes in winter, has been a permanent fixtures on the

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Europe 

Greek finance ministry steps up crackdown on tax cheats

August 8, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

A Greek government legislative act will allow relevant authorities to proceed with confiscations against tax-evading businesses on weekends, during any

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Europe 

Czech man’s colander ID victory may be short lived

August 8, 2013August 8, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post Czech Republic

A member of the spoof religion that worships the Flying Spaghetti Monster recently won the right to wear a spaghetti

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Bulgaria 

‘Code yellow’ heat wave warning in Bulgaria

August 8, 2013August 9, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A code “yellow” weather warning has been issued for 14 districts in Bulgaria on August 8 due to high temperatures,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ruling socialists to call Parliament sitting after Budget veto

August 7, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s socialists, one of the two parties in the ruling coalition, said on August that the party would call an

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Rosen Plevneliev president of Bulgaria
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President vetoes Budget revision

August 7, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on August 7 that he vetoed parts of the Budget revision bill, which Parliament passed

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Business 

Bulgaria records highest grain harvest in eight years – minister

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov said on August 7 that this year’s wheat harvest was the highest in eight years,

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Bulgaria 

Iron Age necropolis near Strouma motorway in Bulgaria destroyed

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, motorways

Part of an early Iron Age necropolis in Doupnitsa district in southwestern Bulgaria, in the immediate vicinity of the recently-launched

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Cabinet to pay 130 000 leva to relatives of Oranovo miners’ relatives, rescuers

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on August 7 the payment of one-off aid to the relatives of miners who died in the

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