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Day: May 13, 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s competition watchdog accuses electricity distributors of unfair competition

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) became the latest state regulator to announce administrative proceedings against the country’s three

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Notebook, May 13

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

Bulgaria’s far-right ultra-nationalist party Ataka hardly is worth writing about in these European Parliament elections, given that Volen Siderov’s cohorts

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Business 

Bulgaria annual deflation down to 1.6% in April

May 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s consumer price index rose by 0.3 per cent in April 2014, pushing the year-on-year deflation figure to 1.6 per

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Bulgaria 

Half a million Bulgarians addicted to alcohol, World Health Organisation says

May 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

More than half a million Bulgarians are addicted to alcohol and almost half of these drink in such quantities that

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Europe 

White House confirms Biden to visit Romania, Cyprus

May 13, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus, Romania

The US administration confirmed on May 12 that vice president  Joe Biden will arrive in Romania on May 20, hours after

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian identity theft victim struggles to persuade authorities he is alive

May 13, 2014May 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

A Bulgarian man has been trapped in a bureaucratic hell after falling victim to identity theft which led not only

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Bulgaria 

Large turnout for Bulgaria’s ‘333’ anti-government protest

May 13, 2014May 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014, Peevski protests

More than 1000 people turned out for the “333” anti-government protest in Sofia on May 12 2014. It was the

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Europe 

Skopje government to spend half a million euro on Google ads

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Macedonia has decided to spend over half a million euro to put adverts for the country on Google. Government spokesman Aleksandar

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Europe 

Poland considers separatist vote in eastern Ukraine illegal – PM Tusk

May 13, 2014 The Warsaw Voice Poland, Russia, Ukraine

The Polish government will not recognise the results of the “pseudo-referenda” held in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine

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