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Month: April 2015

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria fires 25 customs officers

April 28, 2015April 29, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

A total of 25 Bulgarian Customs Agency employees at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey are being fired, with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Red Cross launches Nepal earthquake appeal

April 28, 2015April 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Red Cross has launched a fundraising campaign to assist people hard-hit by the earthquake in Nepal, which as

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Europe 

Tsipras does not rule out referendum on possible deal with creditors

April 28, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The Greek government is at a difficult point of the negotiations with its lenders but it has nothing to hide

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People 

British expat in Bulgaria releases free album to celebrate 50th birthday

April 28, 2015May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

British singer/songwriter and author, Jonathan Taylor, who lives in the village of Krushevo, near Sevlievo, is to celebrate his 50th

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to draft new plan for armed forces, but no defence budget update this year

April 27, 2015April 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

Bulgaria’s cabinet should draft a new plan for the development of the armed forces, but there will be no update

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Bulgaria 

Sofia court impounds 1.2M leva assets of former Parliament deputy speaker

April 27, 2015April 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia City Court has impounded assets worth 1.26 million leva, about 645 500 euro, held by the former deputy speaker of

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Europe 

Ukraine-EU Summit starts in Kyiv as Russian forces in east show readiness for combat

April 27, 2015April 27, 2015 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Combined Russian-separatist forces are at their “highest level” of combat readiness while Ukraine faces mounting pressure to cede more power

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Bulgaria 

Omani sovereign fund sues Bulgaria over CCB saga, lawyer claims

April 27, 2015April 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

An Omani sovereign fund that held 30 per cent in Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) has lodged court action against Bulgaria,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian court jails man for trying to set fire to Plovdiv mosque

April 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The Plovdiv District Court sentenced Viktor Alexandrov to a year in jail for trying to set fire to the Bulgarian

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