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Day: May 29, 2014

Business 

Bulgaria competition watchdog fines Veolia unit 4.8M leva

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

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on May 29 that it fined Sofiyska Voda, the water utility in

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Bulgaria 

Sofia emergency medics resign en masse in row over ambulance delays, underfunding

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

Emergency services medics in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia resigned en masse on May 29 in protest against the government’s attempt

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Bulgaria 

Sofia mayor orders districts to be ready to cope with expected thunderstorm, torrential rain

May 29, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova told the city’s district mayors to be ready to deal with the consequences of the torrential

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Business 

Bulgaria economic environment stable, political risks high – French chamber of commerce

May 29, 2014May 30, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria offered investors a stable economic environment, but with significant social and political risks, the first edition of a survey

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Bulgaria 

Calls in Bulgarian Socialist Party for leadership change after European Parliament elections rout

May 29, 2014May 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

Sergei Stanishev’s leadership of the Bulgarian Socialist Party is being called into question by some BSP MPs after the party’s

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Europe 

Romania’s largest opposition parties agree merger, joint presidential nomination

May 29, 2014May 29, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

The European Parliament elections came as a cold shower for Romania’s largest centre-right parties – the National-Liberal Party (PNL) and

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Europe 

Poland may nominate foreign minister for EU foreign policy chief

May 29, 2014May 29, 2014 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said on May 28 2014 that foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski would be a “natural candidate” to

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Leisure 

What’s On: Sculptures, watercolours by Rodin at the National Art Gallery, Sofia

May 29, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition of work by renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin opens at the National Art Gallery in central Sofia on

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