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Day: October 7, 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria deficit increase weakens a key rating strength, Fitch says

October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

Bulgaria’s proposed budget revisions highlight how the summer’s bank runs, a slowing economy and over-spending are weakening its public finances,

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World 

IMF: Global growth disappoints, pace of recovery uneven and country-specific

October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

A weak and uneven global economic recovery continues, but reflecting different evolutions across various countries and regions, says the IMF’s

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Europe 

Ukraine wants new IMF bailout as war squeezes economy

October 7, 2014October 7, 2014 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews IMF, Ukraine

As the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank gets underway in Washington, Ukraine wants to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians and preferential voting: shift happens

October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

Bulgarians appear to have taken to preferential voting with a passion, with more than third who voted in the country’s

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Business 

Insurance companies, investment, pension funds could lose 103M leva if Corpbank, Victoria go bankrupt – financial supervisor

October 7, 2014October 7, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Insurance companies, investment and pension funds could lose at least 103 million leva if Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank and its

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Europe 

NATO chief: Rapid reaction force in Eastern Europe does not violate deal with Russia

October 7, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

NATO’s new chief, Jens Stoltenberg, says plans for a new rapid reaction force in Eastern Europe do not break a

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Bulgaria 

Borissov ‘ready to offer cabinet posts to parties in return for responsibility for policies’

October 7, 2014October 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, winner of the most votes in the October 5 elections, intends beginning talks with all

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Bulgaria 

Mistake if youths do not know the truth about communism, fascism and the transition – Plevneliev

October 7, 2014October 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

It would be a strategic mistake if Bulgaria’s youth was not enabled to know the truth about communism, fascism and the

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Bulgaria 

Rival ultra-nationalists together to have 30 seats in Bulgaria’s Parliament

October 7, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist coalition the Patriotic Front will have 19 seats in Bulgaria’s newly-elected Parliament and its far-right Ataka rivals 11

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