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Year: 2013

Europe 

Turkey’s row with NATO about Chinese missiles continues

October 24, 2013October 24, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Nato, Turkey

NATO insists on warning Ankara against the decision to acquire long-range missile systems from China. Following a defence ministers meeting

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Greek New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras
Europe 

Greece’s coalition government lays out policy targets

October 24, 2013October 24, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

As Eurostat released data on Wednesday showing Greece’s public debt reached 169.1 percent of the country’s GDP in the second

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s draft 2014 Budget banking on economic recovery

October 23, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry published the 2014 draft Budget bill on October 23, targeting higher economic growth through increased deficit spending.

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Perspectives 

Bulgarian Socialist Party leadership in bid for damage control on ban on land sales to foreigners

October 23, 2013February 11, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leadership will provide enough MPs to make up the numbers of a Movement for Rights

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Bulgaria 

Peevski protests: Students take over Sofia University lecture hall

October 23, 2013October 23, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Students at Bulgaria’s oldest university, the St Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia, “occupied” the university’s largest lecture hall on October

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutors investigating Plovdiv mayor tape controversy

October 23, 2013October 23, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Prosecutors have begun an investigation after audio tapes were posted online purported to be of Plovdiv mayor Ivan Totev talking

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria may allow municipalities to apply for financial aid to cope with refugee influx

October 23, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian government may allow municipalities to apply for financial aid to cope with the influx of refugees, reports on

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Bulgaria 

Parliament’s vote on extending ban on sale of land to foreigners could head to Constitutional Court

October 23, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Parliament’s vote to approve a call by ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov to extend the moratorium on

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Europe 

Greece asks Interpol for help in seeking parents of Maria

October 23, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Greek authorities have asked international police agency Interpol to assist their efforts to identify a young blonde girl found living

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