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Day: June 17, 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament rejects electoral rules referendum

June 17, 2014June 19, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament rejected on June 17 proposals to hold a referendum on electoral rules, proposed earlier this year by President

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Bulgaria 

Stanishev: Political consultations will determine when government resigns

June 17, 2014June 17, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Lyutvi Mestan, Sergei Stanishev

Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev said that coming political consultations would determine when the cabinet would resign, adding that

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Bulgaria 

Date of resignation of Bulgarian cabinet remains unclear

June 17, 2014June 19, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

The June 17 meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security left Bulgarians little the wiser on when early parliamentary

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to hold early parliamentary elections on date between September 28 and October 12

June 17, 2014June 19, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Lyutvi Mestan, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria is to hold early national parliamentary elections on a date between September 28 and October 12 2014, President Rossen

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Europe 

Political crisis in Kosovo deepens

June 17, 2014June 17, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo

Political efforts continue in Kosovo to secure a majority in the parliament of the country, which would lead to the

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Business 

FDI in Bulgaria in January-April was 218.5M euro

June 17, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first four months of 2014 stood at 218.5 million euro, the equivalent of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church again calls for cancellation of Sofia Pride parade

June 17, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has made its by-now customary call for the cancellation of the

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Europe 

Russia, Ukraine, former natural gas trading partners, now trade insults

June 17, 2014May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia, Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine, once brotherly nations, are fighting over natural gas deliveries and military aid. Russia has stopped buying potatoes

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Leisure 

What’s On: Tori Amos at Sofia’s National Palace of Culture, June 20

June 17, 2014June 17, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

US singer-songwriter and pianist Tori Amos brings her Unrepentant Geraldines world tour to the National Palace of Culture, NDK, in

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