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Day: September 5, 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Plovdiv named as European Capital of Culture 2019

September 5, 2014September 9, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna, Veliko Turnovo

Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv has been named as European Capital of Culture 2019. The announcement was made at a special

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv – European Capital of Culture 2019: Photo Gallery

September 5, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Photographs of scenes from Plovdiv, named on September 5 2014 as an international jury’s recommendation for European Capital of Culture

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Bulgaria 

EC rules Bulgaria’s controversial land swops as incompatible state aid

September 5, 2014September 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

The European Commission has ordered Bulgarian authorities to recover incompatible state aid from companies that benefitted from controversial land swops

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Europe 

NATO announces rapid reaction force

September 5, 2014 VOANews Nato, Russia, Ukraine

NATO leaders have approved sending military equipment to Eastern Europe as a potential deterrent to further aggressive moves by Russia,

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Bulgaria 

Emergency declared in north-western Bulgaria after new floods

September 5, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency floods

Two municipalities in the Montana district, in north-western Bulgaria, declared a state of emergency on September 5 after flooding caused

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Bulgaria 

Official campaign period ahead of Bulgaria’s October 5 parliamentary elections begins

September 5, 2014September 14, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

September 5 sees the start of the official campaign period in the run-up to Bulgaria’s ahead-of-term national parliamentary elections on

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Leisure 

What’s On: Former Whitesnake musicians play as ‘Steamroller’ on September 7

September 5, 2014September 5, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Three musicians formerly with Whitesnake will perform as Steamroller at Sofia Live Club on September 7 2014, belting out a

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Business 

Gloomy panorama for biggest companies of Central Europe

September 5, 2014September 5, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

A deteriorating economic situation across Central Europe combined in 2013 with an increasingly uncertain geopolitical situation to drive revenue stagnation

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Europe 

Poland’s ruling party backs parliamentary Speaker Kopacz as next PM

September 5, 2014 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Senior members of the ruling Civic Platform (PO) Wednesday said parliamentary Speaker Ewa Kopacz was their choice to replace Donald

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