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Year: 2013

Leisure 

Prague will lighten up

October 11, 2013October 13, 2013 The Prague Post Czech Republic

Paris may be known as the City of Light, but soon Prague will be trying to lay claim to that

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ban on former communist secret agents heading public media is unconstitutional, court says

October 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has overturned provisions in a 1998 law barring officers and staff of the communist-era State Security secret

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria ‘plans restrictions’ after ban on foreigners buying land is lifted in 2014

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

After the ban on foreigners buying land in Bulgaria expires on January 1 2014, the plan is to still impose

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Bulgaria 

New bid to challenge Peevski’s MP status in Constitutional Court

October 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev

The Reformist Bloc, a group of seven right-wing and centrist parties that are not represented in the current Parliament, have

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Bulgaria 

Arab ambassadors visit refugee centre in Sofia

October 11, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Ambassadors of Arab countries accredited in Sofia were to visit a refugee centre in the Bulgarian capital city on October

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s protests, the sound and the fury

October 11, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski

Rather like the fine lady in the nursery rhyme, who has rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,

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World 

Chemical weapons watchdog wins 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

October 11, 2013February 11, 2014 VOANews

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is currently

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to change driving licence test system after probe finds corruption

October 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

From 2014, candidates for driving licences in Bulgaria will do theory tests on tablets instead of paper, a change to

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Europe 

Bail-in victims to challenge troika’s policies at the ECJ

October 11, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus

Dozens of Cypriot depositors and others who have been affected by the so-called “bail-in” imposed on the island country by

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