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Month: April 2015

Europe 

Plans for potential Greek exit from euro zone played down

April 26, 2015 VOANews euro zone, Greece

European Union finance ministers, meeting in the Latvian capital of Riga, played down speculation Saturday that they are making plans

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Europe 

Armenian massacre victims remembered

April 25, 2015 VOANews

Thousands of people and several world leaders gathered Friday in Armenia to mark the 100th anniversary of the World War

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria central bank to appeal CCB insolvency date, slams satirical show

April 24, 2015April 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s central bank said on April 24 that it will appeal against a court ruling setting the Corporate Commercial Bank

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Sport 

Bulgaria’s Dimitrov seeks improvement after shaky start to season

April 24, 2015April 24, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Grigor Dimitrov is already Bulgaria’s best tennis player ever at the age of 23, but the world number 11 says

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament postpones fines for foreign and offshore owners of land

April 24, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on April 24 to postpone by five months the imposition of fines on foreign and offshore

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Defence Minister: I was offered a bribe, threatened to extend Russian MiG maintenance deal

April 24, 2015April 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Russia

Bulgarian prosecutors have begun investigating an allegation by Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev that he was offered a bribe and received

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament adopts resolution on ‘mass killing’ of Armenians – but not genocide

April 24, 2015April 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Turkey

Bulgaria’s Parliament adopted a resolution recognising the 1915 “mass killing” of Armenians, refraining from using the term “genocide” after the

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Europe 

Mediterranean migrant tragedies: EU to triple search-and-rescue funding, fight traffickers

April 24, 2015April 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

European Union leaders meeting in special session in Brussels to discuss a response to the crisis around the series of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian and Romanian governments to hold joint meeting

April 23, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

The Romanian government headed by prime minister Victor Ponta and the Bulgarian government led by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov are convening

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