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Day: October 3, 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian elections 2014: Arrests, raids of candidate MPs’ homes in actions against vote-buying

October 3, 2014October 5, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2014

Police raided the home of a candidate MP in the Veliko Turnovo constituency in connection with an investigation into alleged

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Bulgaria 

European Commission report points to electricity tariff deficit in Bulgaria

October 3, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff energy

A new report by the European Commission indicates that there is an electricity tariff deficit in Bulgaria – the result of

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Bulgaria 

Investigators enter site of Gorni Lom deadly blast as Bulgaria mourns

October 3, 2014October 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Investigators were to enter the devastated site of the Gorni Lom explosives plant blast on the morning of October 3,

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Perspectives 

Bulgarian elections 2014: Setting the scene

October 3, 2014October 5, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

As Bulgarians, or at least a percentage of them, prepare to head for the ballot booths on October 5, the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian elections 2014: The factfile

October 3, 2014October 6, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2014

Bulgaria’s voters go to the polls on October 5 2014 in ahead-of-term elections for the 43rd National Assembly, the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Some Bulgarian cities to restrict sale of alcohol on October 5 election day

October 3, 2014October 5, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna

There will be varying restrictions on the sale of alcohol on and around Bulgaria’s election day on October 5 in

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Business 

Corpbank crisis will spur bad business loans in Bulgaria – report

October 3, 2014October 3, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency CCB affair

The proportion of non-performing business loans in Bulgaria, which in 2013 added up to 19 per cent, could rise above

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Europe 

Slovakia faces gas supplies halved

October 3, 2014October 3, 2014 Beata Balogova and Jana Liptokova of The Slovak Spectator energy, Russia, Slovakia

A fifty per cent drop in Russian natural gas deliveries on October 1 put the Slovakian government on alert with Prime

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Leisure 

What’s On: Guitar virtuoso Frank Gambale at Plovdiv Jazz Nights on October 11

October 3, 2014October 7, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff editors pick, Plovdiv

Grammy-winning guitar virtuoso Frank Gambale will play on October 11 at the Boris Christoff House of Culture as part of

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