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Year: 2013

Europe 

Hungarian PM: Forget the euro for at least 10 years

July 21, 2013July 31, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

Hungary will only consider joining the eurozone when the country’s GDP reaches 90 per cent of that of the euro-using

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Europe 

Polish PM to set up committee to resolve ritual slaughter dispute – report

July 21, 2013July 31, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Prime Minister Donald Tusk reportedly has ordered the establishment of a special committee tasked with resolving the dispute over the

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Europe 

EEZ and TAP top agenda of talks between foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey

July 21, 2013July 31, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Turkey

Greece’s and Turkey’s Foreign Ministers held a meeting in Ankara on July 19 2013 at which they discussed the issues

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Europe 

Serbian government reshuffle will be finished by the end of July

July 21, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

The reshuffle of the Serbian government would be finished until the end of July, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić said

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Europe 

Navalny returns to Moscow to run for mayor

July 21, 2013July 31, 2013 Jessica Golloher of VOANews Russia

Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny is back in Moscow after being freed on bail pending an appeal of his theft conviction.

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s anti-government protests: To ‘fight on the beaches’?

July 19, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Peevski protests

Members of Bulgaria’s Parliament are planning to forego the barricades for the beaches on their annual August summer holiday, escaping

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament elects Vladimir Pisanchev as SANS director

July 19, 2013July 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament elected Vladimir Pisanchev as director of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) on July 19, with 104

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Bulgaria 

President Plevneliev: Situation in Bulgaria ‘extraordinary’

July 19, 2013July 31, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev, in his first interview with foreign media after more than a month of the anti-government protests

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Europe 

Electricity war started in Croatia

July 19, 2013July 19, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Croatia, energy

After Slovenian company GEN-I won a tender in June to supply the Croatian public administration with electricity, now the Croatian

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