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Day: February 5, 2015

Europe 

Greece, Germany discuss debts, but settle nothing

February 5, 2015 VOANews Greece

The German and Greek finance ministers met in Berlin Thursday, but made no progress toward settling the demand from Athens’

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Europe 

Poland to hold presidential elections on May 10

February 5, 2015February 5, 2015 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland will hold the presidential elections on May 10 2015, the lower house Sejm Speaker Radoslaw Sikorski said on February

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Perspectives 

European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2015: The view from Sofia

February 5, 2015May 10, 2024 Vessela Tcherneva

For most of 2014, Bulgaria’s foreign policy was extremely passive. The prime minister carried out no diplomatic visits in the

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Perspectives 

Can Poland remain a leader of EU foreign policy?

February 5, 2015February 5, 2015 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Poland

In 2014 Poland confirmed its role as one of the European Union’s foreign policy leaders. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict hit Poland’s

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Perspectives 

Germany leads Europe: Jettisoning the status quo

February 5, 2015May 10, 2024 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Russia, Ukraine

Germany is rightly praised in the European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2015 for assuming more leadership in the diplomacy of the

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Bulgaria 

Nato ministers approve new command centres in east, boost Response Force

February 5, 2015February 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Russia, Ukraine

Defence ministers of Nato countries approved the establishment of new command-and-control centres in six eastern member countries of the alliance,

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Leisure 

Film review: Unbroken

February 5, 2015May 10, 2024 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Life is what happens while some are just trying to survive. In Unbroken, Angelina Jolie epic, ambitious but also commendably

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria issues weather warnings over expected torrential rain, wind and snow

February 5, 2015February 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria has issued a “Code Orange” dangerous weather warning for the region of Smolyan in the southern part of the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s former government ‘illegally eavesdropped’ on protesters

February 5, 2015February 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

There was a large-scale operation eavesdropping on anti-government protesters by the Interior Ministry, State Agency for National Security and specialist

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