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Day: June 9, 2015

Europe World 

Turkey’s ruling party mulls next move after electoral setback

June 9, 2015June 9, 2015 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Coalition talks will dominate Turkey in the coming weeks after voters thwarted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s plans to capture a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s consumer protection commission, standards bureau, launch summer 2015 campaigns

June 9, 2015June 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff tourism, Varna

Bulgaria’s Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) has launched its Summer 2015 campaign to inform tourists of their rights and to receive

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to insist on revision of migrant quotas – government

June 9, 2015June 12, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria will insist that the migrant quotas proposed by the European Commission correspond to the capabilities and geographical location of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s foreign trade balance improved in January-April 2015, but still negative

June 9, 2015June 10, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s foreign trade balance in January to April 2015 came in at about 2.2 billion leva, more than 830 million

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Leisure 

Eighth annual Bourgas sand sculptures festival opens in July 2015

June 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas

The eighth annual Bourgas Sand Sculptures Festival is to open in the first week of July 2015 and continue until

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Europe 

Romanian parliament rejects prosecutors’ request to indict PM

June 9, 2015June 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Romania’s lower house of parliament, the chamber of deputies, voted on June 9 against anti-corruption prosecution DNA’s request to allow

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Bulgaria 

Two foreigners injured in grenade accident in Bulgaria transported to hospital in Germany

June 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Two foreign citizens, an American and a Canadian, seriously injured in a grenade accident on June 6 at the VMZ

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Bulgaria 

Eye or nay? Tsar Samuil statue controversy continues

June 9, 2015June 14, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Beauty, it has long been said, is in the eye of the beholder. But when it comes to the controversial

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