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Day: April 29, 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s centre-right opposition GERB leads ahead of European Parliament elections – poll

April 29, 2014May 3, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s centre-right former ruling party GERB has 17.6 per cent and the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) 15.9 per cent of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs overturn presidential veto on bill imposing limits on foreigners buying land

April 29, 2014April 29, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Parliament voted on April 29 to overturn President Rossen Plevneliev’s veto on the amendments to the Agricultural Land Ownership

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria forcing out refugees, Human Rights Watch says, angering government

April 29, 2014May 2, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees, Tsvetlin Yovchev

Bulgaria has embarked on a “Containment Plan” to reduce the number of asylum seekers in the country, Human Rights Watch

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s military rehearses for army day flypasts over Sofia

April 29, 2014May 2, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The whirr of helicopter blades and roaring of jets over Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are no cause for alarm –

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Europe 

Auschwitz march highlights worries about anti-Semitism in Hungary

April 29, 2014 Jerome Socolovsky of VOANews Hungary

Amid concerns about the rise of extremist parties in Europe, around 10,000 people from around the world took part in

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Washington, Brussels levy fresh sanctions on Russia

April 29, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

On April 28, the White House announced a fresh round of sanctions on seven Russian officials and 17 corporations. Concurrently,

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Europe 

Ukraine inks memorandum with Slovakia for 8 billion cubic metres of gas

April 29, 2014May 2, 2014 The Kyiv Post energy, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine

In a bid to further wean itself off Russian gas dependency, Ukraine on April 28 signed a memorandum with Slovakia

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