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Day: May 21, 2014

Europe 

European Parliament elections 2014: The essential factfile

May 21, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

Voting is being held in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands on May 22 in the 2014 European Parliament elections,

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Bulgaria 

Mitsubishi dealer for Bulgaria to alert European HQ over copycat ad by Ataka

May 21, 2014May 22, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Balkan Star Motors, official distributor of Mitsibushi in Bulgaria, is to inform its European office about plagiarism by ultra-nationalist party

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian civilians ‘have more firearms than the army’

May 21, 2014May 21, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

A gun control check has found that 211 486 people out of Bulgaria’s population of 7.3 million have firearm licences,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and US to take part in Thracian Star 2014 military exercise

May 21, 2014May 22, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Fighter aircraft from the air forces of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and the United States will take part in the joint

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria ready to supply electricity to Serbia

May 21, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

Bulgaria is ready to supply electricity to Serbia, its neighbour where record floods have forced Belgrade to order increased electricity

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Notebook, May 21

May 21, 2014May 22, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

For someone who will place neither first nor second in Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections, and whom some would like to

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Europe 

Serbia declares three days of mourning for flood victims

May 21, 2014May 21, 2014 Zlatica Hoke of VOANews Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

Serbia has declared three days of mourning for more victims of the worst floods to hit the country in more

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian institutions and individuals quick to help flood victims in Serbia, BiH

May 21, 2014May 22, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

Bulgaria’s government, Red Cross and ordinary people have been quick to offer assistance to victims of the record floods in

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Bulgaria 

Balkan floods: Bulgarian section of Danube still rising but ‘no extreme situation’ expected

May 21, 2014May 22, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

A “high tide” of water is expected to reach the Bulgarian section of the Danube River on May 22 and

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