Bulgaria set for national day – and nationwide protests – on March 3
Solemn state ceremonials, protests in all major cities and a march by ultra-nationalists Ataka are all scheduled for Bulgaria’s national
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Year: 2013
Controversy over Macedonia’s 2013 Eurovision song contest entry
A video for Macedonia’s entry for the 2013 Eurovision song contest, Vlato “Lozano” Lozanoski and Esma Redžepova’s Imperija (“Empire”), was
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Serbian scandal highlights fungal poison danger
A scandal over contaminated milk in the Balkans highlights a global threat to food safety: Aflatoxins are naturally occurring poisons
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Democracy making strides in former Soviet Armenia
Twenty-one years after gaining independence from the Soviet Union, Armenia may be coming of age. It is developing a more
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Bulgaria lowers investment certificate thresholds
Bulgaria’s acting Cabinet approved on March 1 a series of changes to the regulations on the implementation of the Investment
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Bulgaria’s political crisis: Of a public council, public enemies and protests against a protester
The first day of March and the latest day of Bulgaria’s national political crisis produced another round of developments and
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Bulgaria’s utility regulator proposes 5.3-5.8% electricity price cut
Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) said on March 1 that it has proposed an electricity price cut
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Some protest organisers, trade union leader, walk out of Plevneliev’s ‘public council’
Some of the leaders of recent nationwide protests invited to take part in President Rossen Plevneliev’s “public council” walked out
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Bulgaria’s fighter jet acquisition plan in holding pattern for next government
Bulgaria’s long-standing saga of a planned fighter jet acquisition will become a matter for the next government, while negotiations with
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