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Day: December 8, 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament passes 2015 Budget at first reading

December 8, 2014December 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian MPs passed the 2015 Budget Act at first reading on December 8, with 130 votes in favour from the

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Bulgaria 

Slavi Binev resigns as head of parliamentary committee on culture and media

December 8, 2014December 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Patriotic Front MP Slavi Binev resigned on December 8 as head of the Bulgarian Parliament’s committee on culture and the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria joins in annual EU campaign against drink-driving

December 8, 2014December 9, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian traffic police are stepping up checks for drink-driving and those behind the wheel after using illegal drugs, part of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council investigates judge after complaints by companies, French ambassador

December 8, 2014December 9, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

The ethics committee of Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council has begun an investigation into whether Sofia City Court Judge Roumyana Chenalova

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Bulgaria 

Former head of Bulgaria’s security agency ‘missing’ – reports

December 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The former head of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security (SANS) has been missing since December 5, local media reported

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Bulgaria 

Eighth day of power cut in 10 villages in Bulgaria’s Elhovo

December 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Ten villages in the Elhovo region entered their second week without electricity on December 8 after power lines froze. Bulgarian

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Europe 

Merkel: Russia meddling with countries’ EU aspirations

December 8, 2014 VOANews Moldova, Russia, Ukraine

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is bitterly accusing Russia of trying to meddle with the desires of eastern European countries to

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