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Month: July 2015

Europe 

Plevneliev: Bulgaria hopes Montenegro will be invited to join Nato by end-2015

July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Montenegro, Nato, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has expressed hope that Montenegro will get an invitation to join Nato by

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Business 

Bulgarian exports to EU up but trade balance still negative

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

Bulgarian exports to other European Union countries were 12.3 per cent higher in January to April 2015 than in January

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians to hold protest against police brutality

July 9, 2015July 12, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A protest is to be held in Sofia on July 10, prompted by the recent release of two videos depicting

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria concerned by Greek crisis impact on jobs, gas interconnector

July 9, 2015July 10, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

It is certain that the situation in Greece will affect Bulgaria’s economy but there was no sense in being dramatic

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Europe 

Greece promises reforms in bid for debt relief

July 9, 2015July 10, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency euro zone, Greece

The Greek government submitted on Wednesday its formal request for a new aid package in an attempt to avoid exiting

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Europe 

Greece’s poor more worried about survival than euro’s future

July 8, 2015 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews euro zone, Greece

As Europe’s politicians debate the future of Greece in the eurozone, the economic arguments seem distant for many Greeks living

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Europe 

Russia blocks UN resolution recognising Srebrenica massacre as genocide

July 8, 2015 VOANews Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Serbia

Russia has vetoed a draft U.N. resolution condemning the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war as an act

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank ‘functioned as a financial pyramid’ – parliamentary committee

July 8, 2015July 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

From its establishment, Corporate Commercial Bank – formerly Bulgaria’s fourth-largest and now bankrupt – had functioned as a financial pyramid,

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Europe 

Tsipras ‘confident’ of meeting deadline for reform proposals

July 8, 2015July 9, 2015 VOANews euro zone, Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Wednesday he is confident of meeting an end of the week “final deadline” European

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