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Year: 2013

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Danube Bridge to re-open to freight traffic

April 9, 2013April 9, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Danube Bridge would re-open to heavy freight lorries at 10pm on April 9, Bulgaria’s Road Infrastructure Agency said. Earlier, the agency

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian honours for outgoing ambassadors

April 9, 2013April 9, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Several outgoing ambassadors to Bulgaria received Bulgarian honours on April 8 and 9. Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev conferred the country’s

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Europe News 

Belgrade officially rejects deal with Kosovo

April 9, 2013May 27, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo, Serbia

Serbian government has decided not to sign the agreement on the normalization of relations with Kosovo. The decision has been

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Bulgaria Europe News 

EU officials in Skopje for high-level dialogue

April 9, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Macedonia

European Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle was due in Skopje on April 9 2013 for a meeting with prime

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Bulgaria News World 

Book of condolences to be opened at UK embassy in Sofia after Margaret Thatcher’s death

April 8, 2013April 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A book of condolences would be opened at the British embassy in Bulgaria’s capital city, Sofia, after the death of

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Bulgaria News People Perspectives 

‘At the mercy of psychopaths’: Palfreeman interviewed

April 8, 2013February 17, 2016 Gabriel Hershman

I’m still Jock Nobody to the Australian authorities, complains Jock Palfreeman, despite the recent publication of a book documenting his

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s election battle lines: GERB and the BSP

April 8, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2013, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev

Perhaps when April 12 brings the formal start of the campaign period ahead of Bulgaria’s May 12 national parliamentary elections,

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Of Thatcher and time

April 8, 2013 Hector Poole

Tributes/criticism to Mrs Thatcher have been lined up for many years. Many initially opposed her but time has perhaps been

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Bulgaria News 

Roma groups walk out of Bulgarian Government’s integration council

April 8, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Marin Raykov

Roma groups represented in the Bulgarian Government’s national council for co-operation on ethnic and integration issues walked out of the

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