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Day: January 27, 2016

Europe 

European Parliament head Martin Schulz to Jews: ‘Europe is your home today, every day and forever’

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

“It pains me that Jews again live in fear in Europe today, are not safe to go to a synagogue

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Business 

CEE real estate investment hits 9 BN euro in 2015

January 27, 2016 The Prague Post

As core European markets continue to become increasingly tight, the CEE region (excluding Russia)  is attracting more capital and witnessing

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Europe 

Hungary’s Orbán: Autocrat or misunderstood provocateur?

January 27, 2016 Jamie Dettmer of VOANews Hungary

They endured snow and cold.  A few hundred protesters turned out here in Hungary’s capital in a show of opposition

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Europe 

Love for Clintons lingers in Kosovo, as country awaits US elections

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 VOANews Kosovo

In Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, the name Clinton is ubiquitous. Bill Clinton Boulevard bisects the city, on which a 10-foot effigy

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Ryanair to launch Sofia-Dublin flights in November 2016

January 27, 2016January 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will introduce direct flights between Sofia and Dublin, as well as Sofia to Brussels (Charleroi), starting

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s top judiciary body rejects resignation calls

January 27, 2016January 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

The annual ritual by Bulgarian politicians to cherry-pick the contents of the European Commission’s Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) progress

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Bulgaria 

European Commission tells Bulgaria to turn strategies on judicial reform, against corruption, into action

January 27, 2016January 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

It is time for Bulgaria to move to the next stage by turning its strategies on judicial reform and the

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Europe 

European Commission praises ‘sustainability’ of Romania judiciary reforms

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Romania made big steps towards proving the sustainability of its judiciary reforms, but 2016 would provide another crucial test in

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Bulgaria 

Transparency International finds perceptions of public sector corruption in Bulgaria largely unchanged

January 27, 2016January 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria has again ranked 69th, this year out of 168 countries, in Transparency International’s latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index, which

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