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Month: June 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM nominates UNESCO chief Bokova to be next UN Secretary General – report

June 12, 2014February 10, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Irina Bokova

Plamen Oresharski, prime minister in the Bulgarian Socialist Party cabinet seen as in its closing days as the country awaits

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv court rejects Muslim claim on former mosque land in Karlovo

June 12, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv Regional Court has upheld a decision by Karlovo District Court rejecting an application by the Muslim community to be

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament sitting to debate referendum proposals cancelled because of lack of quorum

June 12, 2014June 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

A sitting of Bulgaria’s National Assembly scheduled for June 12 to discuss proposals for a national referendum on electoral reform

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Leisure 

What’s On: BeerRelation Festival in Sofia’s South Park from June 12 to 15

June 12, 2014June 12, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Live music from foreign and Bulgarian artists, giant screens to watch World Cup matches and, of course, beer will be

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Bulgaria 

Unlucky for some: Bulgaria’s cabinet likely to survive Friday 13th vote

June 11, 2014June 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski

The morning of June 13 is to see the National Assembly vote on the motion of no confidence in the

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Europe 

Ukraine rejects Russian offer to cut gas price

June 11, 2014 VOANews energy, Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine has rejected a Russian offer that would effectively cut the price Kyiv pays for gas by 20 percent. Ukrainian

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian cabinet did not discuss resignation – ministers

June 11, 2014June 12, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

The meeting of the cabinet on June 11 did not discuss the issue of the resignation of the government, Mediapool

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s anti-government protests: The last waltz and DANSNoMore

June 11, 2014June 14, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski protests

As Bulgaria waits to see just when the Bulgarian Socialist Party government will resign, there is another question – on

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Bulgaria 

Ataka leader Siderov breaks silence to hint at support for no-confidence vote

June 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski, Volen Siderov

In his first remarks to reporters in Sofia since his party was vanquished in Bulgaria’s May 25 European Parliament elections,

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