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Day: January 27, 2015

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President: We cannot allow the memory of the Holocaust to disappear with the last surviving witnesses

January 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Rossen Plevneliev

The crimes of Nazism should not be forgotten and the memory of the Holocaust cannot be allowed to disappear with

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Bulgaria 

Division between Muslims and Christians must not be allowed, Bulgarian PM and Chief Mufti agree

January 27, 2015January 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Division in society between Muslims and Christians should not be tolerated, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Chief Mufti Mustafa

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians see little progress in judiciary reform, corruption fight – survey

January 27, 2015January 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, judiciary

Bulgarians were more downbeat about the progress made by the country in reforming its judiciary and fighting corruption and organised

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Bulgaria 

EC to criticise Bulgaria’s slow progress on judicial reform, fighting corruption – reports

January 27, 2015January 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, judiciary

Bulgaria’s progress on judicial reform and combating corruption is slow and the country is to be urged to adopt a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Romania fail to win EU backing for more compensation for dairy farmers hit by Russian embargo

January 27, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria and Romania have failed to win compensation for dairy farmers negatively affected by a Russian ban on imports of

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Business 

S&P downgrades Russia credit rating to ‘junk’ status

January 27, 2015 VOANews Russia

Russia’s credit rating was downgraded Monday, falling below investment grade for the first time in a decade to what the

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Europe 

Poland to mark 70 years since Auschwitz liberation

January 27, 2015 The Warsaw Voice

About 300 former prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German Nazi death camp in southern Poland, along with dozens of foreign dignitaries,

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Europe 

Merkel: Disgrace if people attacked if they identify as Jews or side with Israel

January 27, 2015January 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

It is a disgrace that people in Germany are harassed, threatened or attacked if they somehow identify as Jews or

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Europe 

EU offers mixed reaction to Syriza victory

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015 Lisa Bryant of VOANews Greece

European Union finance ministers meeting in Brussels have suggested they are open to giving Greece more time to pay back

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