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Day: December 4, 2014

Leisure 

Bulgaria’s winter resorts to open new season on December 13

December 4, 2014December 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s winter resorts of Pamporovo, Bansko and Borovets are to officially open their ski seasons on December 13 – although

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Business 

CCB deposit payouts process begins with minor issues

December 4, 2014December 7, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgarian banks paid out 25 000 deposits worth about 1.07 billion leva, or 547 million euro, on December 4, the first

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Europe 

EU will support Bulgaria in South Stream dispute – EC President Juncker

December 4, 2014December 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, South Stream

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on December 4 that the EU will stand with Bulgaria on the issue of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian culture ministry officials, public broadcasters’ chiefs boycott Binev committee

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Officials from Bulgaria’s Ministry of Culture said on December 4 that they would not attend a meeting of the parliamentary

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Europe 

Russia’s Putin defends annexation of Crimea

December 4, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Russian president Vladimir Putin has defended his country’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and accused the West of using the

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Business 

South Stream cancellation causes flurry of reactions in South-Eastern Europe

December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, South Stream

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s announcement, in Ankara on December 1, that Moscow would scrap it plans to build the South

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Bulgaria 

Minority parties’ support for Bulgarian coalition cabinet in question

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian socialist breakaway minority party ABC could withdraw its support from Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right coalition cabinet if a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint closed because of flooding

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff floods

The Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey was closed on the morning of December 4 because

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