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Year: 2013

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European Commission opens proceedings against Bulgarian Energy Holding and subsidiaries Bulgargaz and Bulgartransgaz

July 5, 2013July 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to investigate whether Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH), its gas supply subsidiary Bulgargaz and

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Bulgaria 

Oresharski speaks on Budget revision

July 5, 2013July 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

Plamen Oresharski has outlined why the Bulgarian Socialist Party government wants to revise the 2013 Budget and has criticised the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch: Leaders should serve the people

July 5, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit says that God puts people in positions of leadership not to satisfy their personal ambitions

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to find money for overtime pay for police monitoring protests

July 5, 2013July 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Bulgaria’s peaceful anti-government protests, that enter their 22nd day on July 5 2013, are overstretching police personnel and finances, according

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Europe World 

Europe reacts to US surveillance allegations

July 5, 2013July 10, 2013 Michael Scaturro of VOANews

U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed to a meeting of U.S. and German security officials

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Perspectives 

Croatia: The 28th state

July 5, 2013July 5, 2013 Harriet Salem for The Prague Post Croatia

Less than two decades following the bloody ethnic conflict that broke up Yugoslavia, Croatia celebrated its entry into the European

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Poland has more problems with Boeing Dreamliner aircraft

July 5, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Polish airline LOT had to cancel one trans-Atlantic flight and postpone another because of technical problems on two of its

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Leisure 

The road less travelled in the Rhodope

July 5, 2013May 10, 2024 Gabriel Hershman archaeology

Fleeing an unseasonably cool and wet July day in Sofia, we headed south to Kurdjali on an organised tour* –

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Europe 

Hungary: Cops not opposing Gay Pride events this time

July 5, 2013July 5, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

Budapest’s annual Gay Pride Festival will open with an event at the new Gödör Klub on Király utca in District

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