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Year: 2013

Europe News 

EU-brokered dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo resumes

January 15, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bilateral dialogue brokered by the European Union between Belgrade and Priština was scheduled to resume in Brussels on January 15

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Bulgarians await outcome of Greek appeal court ruling in Helios Airways 2005 crash case

January 15, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s transport carriers union and supporters of Yanko Stoimenov, sentenced by a Greek court for 123 years in jail in

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarians among group jailed by Czech court for forging documents

January 15, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic

A court in the Czech Republic has jailed a group of seven, including two Bulgarians, four Russians and a Moldovan,

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Bulgaria News 

Construction of holiday village at Bulgaria’s Irakli suspended for exceeding plans

January 15, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Regional Development and Public Works Minister Liliyana Pavlova has ordered a temporary suspension of construction of a holiday village

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Business Europe News 

Euro zone industrial production still shrinking

January 14, 2013May 22, 2013 VOANews

The eurozone says its industrial production fell for the third straight month in November, the latest signal that the currency

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria expecting heavy flu season

January 14, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Between 500 000 and 700 000 people could be affected by the flu epidemic expected to hit Bulgaria within weeks,

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Sport 

Bulgaria’s Dimitrov, Pironkova exit Australian Open at first hurdle

January 14, 2013February 6, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Bulgaria’s two representatives in the first tennis Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open, have left the competition in

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Cabinet won’t raise salaries of top officials – minister

January 14, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov said on January 14 that the draft bill raising the salaries of the country’s top

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian inflation at 4.2% in 2012

January 14, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price inflation was 4.2 per cent in 2012, overshooting the 2.8 per cent target set in the

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