World Bank: Economic recovery in SEE 6 countries could be held back by floods
The economy in six countries in South Eastern Europe covered by a World Bank regular report began recovering from the
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Month: May 2014
Romania opposition leader resigns after European Parliament election
The leader of Romania’s largest opposition party in parliament, Crin Antonescu, resigned on May 26, one day after his National-Liberals
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European elections 2014: Now for the aftermath
With those who voted in the May 22 to 25 European Parliament elections having had their say, now it is
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Borissov: The government is a zombie and parliament has no legitimacy
Referring scathingly to Plamen Oresharski as the ex-prime minister, the government as “a zombie, dead” and decrying the current parliament
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European elections 2014: results across Central and Eastern Europe
Twelve European Union member states in Central and Eastern Europe voted in European Parliament elections between May 23 and May
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European elections 2014: Borissov’s GERB scores clear win, partial results show
Boiko Borissov’s opposition centre-right party GERB will win the most votes in Bulgaria’s May 25 European Parliament elections, the country’s
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Bulgarian court acquits former interior minister on embezzlement charges
The Sofia City Court said on May 26 that it found Tsvetan Tsvetanov, MP for opposition party GERB who served
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European elections 2014: Unlike elsewhere in EU, far-right in reverse in Bulgaria
What the French prime minister reportedly described as the “political earthquake” of the rise of far-right parties in European Parliament
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Parties in Bulgaria’s ruling axis signal government to stay in spite of BSP rout in European elections
In spite of the Bulgarian Socialist Party having come in a poor second, about 10 per cent behind the centre-right
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