Fresh elections in Macedonia in April 2016, says EU commissioner Hahn
EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on June 2, after negotiating several hours in Skopje with leaders of the four main
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Day: June 2, 2015
Blatter resigns as FIFA chief
Sepp Blatter, president of the international football federation FIFA, abruptly resigned Tuesday in the midst of an unfolding corruption scandal.
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Bulgaria’s competition watchdog fines electricity distributors 1.17M leva over access to utility poles
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on June 2 that it has fined the country’s three electricity distribution
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Garmen protesters in failed bid to break police cordon at Roma neighbourhood
A group of protesters in Garmen municipality made a failed attempt to break through a police cordon guarding the Roma
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Teenager found stabbed to death in Sofia’s Borissova Gradina
Police in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are investigating after the body of a 16-year-old boy was found on a bench
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Hundreds protest in Garmen against illegal construction, Roma
Hundreds of residents of Garmen municipality, joined by bikers and politicians from elsewhere in the country, held a protest on
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Russian rewrite of crushing of Prague Spring angers Czech Republic and Slovakia
A Russian television film that depicts the Soviet suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring as having been in response to
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Berbatov, AS Monaco part ways
Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov will leave AS Monaco after the French football club has decided not to renew the former
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Athens in search of quick deal with creditors to avert June default
Greek government sources suggest an interim deal will be agreed imminently that would secure Athens meets its heavy debt repayment
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