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Year: 2013

Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s elections: The ups and downs

May 16, 2013May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2013

The story of the numbers in Bulgaria’s May 2013 parliamentary elections, once a look is taken at the records of

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Leisure 

Film review: ID:A

May 16, 2013May 16, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

ID:A is a Danish film whose soundtrack is so over-the-top, sometimes it is difficult to know whether the filmmaker is

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Leisure 

Film review: The Big Wedding

May 16, 2013May 16, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

A film in which Robin Williams stars as a priest was never going to be serious. But when you have

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Sofia, Plovdiv to light the sky on Night of the Museums

May 16, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, Sofia

Sofia and Plovdiv, the two cities considered as front-runners to win Bulgaria’s nomination for the 2019 European Capital of Culture,

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Europe News 

Human Rights Watch urges EU to sanction Hungary

May 16, 2013May 22, 2013 Lisa Bryant of VOANews Hungary

A leading rights group is calling on the European Union to take steps toward suspending Hungary’s voting rights following much-criticized

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Business Europe News 

EU approves rescue loan for LOT Polish airlines

May 16, 2013May 22, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

The European Commission has concluded that a rescue loan of PLN 400 million granted by the Polish government to Poland’s

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Bulgaria News 

Opposition, derision for Borissov’s call to annul May 12 elections

May 16, 2013May 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Soon after GERB leader Boiko Borissov said that his party – even though it got the largest share of the

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Bulgaria News 

Borissov’s GERB to ask Constitutional Court to overturn May parliamentary elections

May 16, 2013May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov

GERB, Boiko Borissov’s party that got the largest share of votes in Bulgaria’s May 12 parliamentary elections but will be

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian lorry drivers block border with Turkey again

May 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian lorry drivers once again blocked the main two checkpoints on the border with Turkey on May 16, the second

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