European Commission recommends membership talks with Serbia
The European Union’s executive commission has recommended opening membership negotiations with Serbia. The Serbian government has approved a potentially landmark
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Year: 2013
Bulgaria marks Earth Day 2013 with protests, politics
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Marin Raykov was certain to have caused a happy buzz among protesting beekeepers on April 22 2013,
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Bulgaria revises 2013 growth target downward to 1%
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has revised the country’s economic growth forecast for this year to one per cent. The new target
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Bulgaria’s Dimitrov rises to 28th in ATP Tour rankings after Monte-Carlo Masters
Grigor Dimitrov jumped six spots in the ATP Tour rankings, to a career-best 28th, after reaching his first quarterfinal at
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Plovdiv’s revamped Boris Christoff House of Culture to open on April 26
Plovdiv’s Boris Christoff House of Culture is to open officially on April 26 with a grand-scale concert, following a revamp
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Tourists to get first glimpses of St Sofia underground museum ‘by June’
The first phase of the underground museum at St Sofia church, featuring a necropolis dating from the fourth century CE
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Kidnapped daughter of Bulgarian money-laundering convict returned
The 10-year-old daughter of Evelin “Brendo” Banev had been returned to her mother on April 21 2013, 47 days after
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Strike to prevent nearly all Lufthansa flights in Europe on April 22
The Lufthansa Group’s flight operations will be considerably restricted on April 22 2013 as a result of the planned warning strike by
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Concerns about deterioration of media environment in Bulgaria, US state dept says
Concerns persisted about deterioration of the media environment in Bulgaria because of corporate and political pressure that, combined with the
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