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Day: June 5, 2014

Bulgaria 

Toshiba out as investor in Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear project, replaced by Westinghouse

June 5, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Japanese company Toshiba Corporation has withdrawn as a strategic investor in negotiations on building a seventh unit at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s revenue agency cold-calls thousands to pay their taxes

June 5, 2014June 6, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) is using its new call centre to phone thousands of individuals to ask them to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria must make clear commitments to energy security and diversification, President Plevneliev says

June 5, 2014June 6, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Rossen Plevneliev, Russia, Ukraine

Bulgaria should undertake clear commitments to energy security and diversification, President Rossen Plevneliev told reporters in Warsaw, where energy security

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Europe 

Greek parliament removes immunity of leading Golden Dawn trio

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

By an overwhelming majority in a vote on June 4, Greek MPs approved the lifting of immunity of Golden Dawn leader

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party MPs back Ataka challenge in Constitutional Court to European Parliament elections

June 5, 2014June 6, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

A group of MPs from the Bulgarian Socialist Party have provided the signatures needed for a petition by far-right ultra-nationalists

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Europe 

Rebels in eastern Ukraine take government border posts

June 5, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine struggled late Wednesday to regain control of key sections of its border with Russia, after pro-Russian separatists overran a

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Leisure 

What’s On: ‘Picnic of Freedom’ in Sofia’s Borissova Gradina on June 14

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The German embassy in Sofia and Swift Gap Events (Flashmob Bulgaria) are organising a “Party Lights Experiment” at a Picnic

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