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Year: 2013

Perspectives 

The Government’s noxious ideas about the flat tax in Bulgaria

November 22, 2013May 10, 2024 Institute for Market Economics

In recent days, Bulgaria’s ruling majority has announced plans to drastically alter the flat income tax, coming into force in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian former deputy PM Tsvetanov indicted in third investigation

November 22, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor’s Office said on November 22 that it has filed charges of embezzlement and abuse of office against Tsvetan

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Europe 

Ukraine: EU suspension order was ‘economic’ move

November 22, 2013November 22, 2013 VOANews Ukraine

Ukraine’s prime minister says the decision not to sign a landmark deal strengthening ties with the European Union was based

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Europe 

Nine years after Orange Revolution, Kyivans take to streets in protest of scuttled EU deal

November 22, 2013November 22, 2013 Oksana Grytsenko of The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Moods comparable to that of the 2004 Orange Revolution, which ended Viktor Yanukovych’s attempt to rig a presidential election that

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Europe 

EU officials ‘disappointed’ with Ukraine’s decision to freeze EU push

November 22, 2013February 11, 2014 Alex Bivol Moldova, Ukraine

Ukraine’s decision to freeze all efforts towards signing the association agreement with the European Union at next week’s Eastern Partnership

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria expelling 30 refugees, some suspected of ‘terrorist links’

November 22, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

Thirty out of the thousands of refugees in Bulgaria are being expelled because they are threats of national security, in

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Europe 

Samaras to hold talks with Merkel in Berlin

November 22, 2013November 22, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras visits Berlin Friday where he is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for

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Europe 

Environmental activists walk out from Warsaw climate conference

November 22, 2013November 22, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Hundreds of members of environmental NGOs, including Greenpeace and WWF, walked out of UN climate change meeting in Warsaw on

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Europe 

18 dead after roof collapse at Latvian supermarket

November 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Emergency officials in Latvia say the roof of a supermarket has collapsed, killing at least 18 people, including three firefighters,

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