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Month: January 2015

Business 

KPMG Bulgaria avoids licence loss, faces fine for CCB audits – reports

January 9, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency CCB affair

Auditing firm KPMG Bulgaria will be fined 100 000 leva, or about 51 100 euro, but will not lose its

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Bulgaria 

Unions threaten strike over Bulgarian state railways cutbacks

January 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian state railways BDZ is to cancel 38 trains from January 12, with further cuts planned from February 1, and

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Sport 

Dimitrov into Brisbane semis, to face Federer

January 9, 2015January 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov defeated Martin Klizan at the Brisbane International on January 9 to book a place in the semi-finals,

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Europe 

Pentagon announces European base closings

January 9, 2015 VOANews Nato

The United States says it will close more than a dozen bases in Europe in a move the Defense Department

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Europe 

European Jewish Association on Paris attack: ‘We hope this serves as a wake-up call to European societies’

January 9, 2015January 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Jewish Association (EJA) has condemned the January 7 2015 terrorist attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo and offered

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Europe 

Merkel: Sanctions on Russia stay until fighting stops in Ukraine

January 8, 2015January 8, 2015 VOANews Ukraine

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia for supporting separatists in eastern

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Perspectives 

After the Paris Massacre: fighting back with restraint

January 8, 2015May 10, 2024 Nick Witney of the European Council on Foreign Relations

How to react to this latest outrage? The immediate French response seems to have been rather noble, mixing a determination

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Bulgaria 

US secretary of state John Kerry to visit Bulgaria on January 15 – reports

January 8, 2015January 13, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

US Secretary of State John Kerry is to visit Bulgaria on January 15 2015, according to Bulgarian-language media reports. Plans

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Europe 

US prosecutors ask Poland to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski

January 8, 2015 The Warsaw Voice Poland

US prosecutors have sent Poland extradition request for Polish-born filmmaker Roman Polanski, who is wanted in the United States on

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