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Year: 2013

Business 

FDI in Bulgaria in January-May was 505.4 million euro

July 17, 2013July 31, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first five months of the year stood at 505.4 million euro, the equivalent

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Europe 

Romania seeks another two year long stand-by agreement with IMF

July 17, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romania has successfully concluded its international loan agreements and seeks another two year long preventive arrangement, the Romanian President Traian

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Europe 

Fundamental terms of Poland’s nuclear project agreed

July 17, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Polish energy giants PGE, Tauron and Enea, as well as copper and silver giant KGHM have agreed on the basic

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Europe 

Israel condemns Polish ban on kosher slaughter

July 17, 2013July 17, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

The rejection by the Polish Sejm (lower house) of a bill allowing ritual slaughter, or shechitah, is “totally unacceptable” and

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Business 

OECD foresees high joblessness through to 2014

July 16, 2013July 31, 2013 Lisa Bryant of VOANews

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says joblessness will remain high in European and other developed nations next year, stalling

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World 

Astronomers detect mystery radio bursts

July 16, 2013July 17, 2013 Rick Pantaleo of VOANews final frontier

An international team of astronomers is studying four mysterious and very powerful radio bursts they think may have originated half

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Bulgaria 

Dutch, Belgian ambassadors speak on ‘values protest’ in Bulgaria

July 16, 2013July 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Dutch ambassador in Sofia Karel van Kesteren and Belgium’s ambassador in Bulgaria Anick van Calster became the latest foreign diplomats

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to raise target deficit to 2% in Budget revision

July 16, 2013July 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry published on July 16 the draft of the planned Budget revision, which will raise the Budget deficit

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Europe 

June 2013 euro zone annual inflation up to 1.6 per cent, EU up to 1.7 per cent

July 16, 2013July 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Euro zone annual inflation was 1.6 per cent in June 2013, up from 1.4 per cent in May. A year

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