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Day: February 18, 2015

Europe 

Prokopis Pavlopoulos elected as president of Greece

February 18, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Former interior minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos was elected the new President of Greece on February 18 2015. Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the candidate

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv traffic police fine ambulances for speeding

February 18, 2015February 18, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Traffic police in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have issued speeding fines to 10 ambulances transporting patients in critical condition in

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Bulgaria 

Day of high political drama as Bulgarian PM threatens resignation if 8BN euro debt vote fails

February 18, 2015February 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Voting by Bulgaria’s Parliament on ratification of the country incurring new external debt of eight billion euro over the next

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Bulgaria 

Protest to be held in Sofia against ‘Kremlin’s aggressive information campaign in Bulgaria’

February 18, 2015February 21, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine, Volen Siderov

A protest is to be held in Sofia on February 21 2015 calling for the “termination of the Kremlin’s information

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government provides more firewood for border police facing winter migrant crossings

February 18, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s cabinet agreed on February 18 to provide additional firewood to police on duty at border areas where there are

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Business Leisure 

Balkans’ largest wine exhibition Vinaria opens in Plovdiv on March 4 2015

February 18, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Vinaria, the largest wine exhibition on the Balkans, is to be held in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv for the 23rd

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Europe 

Ukraine military pulls out of besieged town

February 18, 2015February 18, 2015 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s president said his government’s forces are pulling out of the contested eastern Ukrainian town of Debaltseve, which has been

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Bulgaria 

Commission on Bansko ski zone delays findings by 10 days

February 18, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The interdepartmental commission investigating the ski zone in Bansko, where there is continuing controversy about plans for expanded ski facilities

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to change law to make indoor smoking ban more effective – Health Minister

February 18, 2015February 21, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff smoking

Bulgaria’s Health Ministry has no intention of easing the ban on smoking indoors in public places, nor of widening anti-smoking

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