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Day: February 3, 2016

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament confirms Kouneva as new education minister

February 3, 2016February 5, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kouneva will hold the education portfolio in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, after Parliament

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria issues Greece travel warning as border blockade continues

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning on February 3 in connection to the planned general strike in Greece on

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Sport 

Bulgarian players exit ATP tournament in Sofia in first round

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Dimitar Kouzmanov hung on, taking a set off Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis in their match on February 3, but his 3-6,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs reject motion to resurrect South Stream gas pipeline project

February 3, 2016February 5, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff energy, South Stream

Bulgaria’s Parliament rejected on February 3 a motion tabled by ultra-nationalist party Ataka, which called for resuming construction on the

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Bulgaria 

Opposition grows to nomination of Bulgarian deputy PM as education minister

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian MPs were scheduled to vote on the nomination of Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kouneva as education minister on February

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Europe 

Immigrants beyond the law

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis

Crime is on the rise because of asylum seekers, or so the standard claim by right-wing populists. But statistics do

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Europe 

Creditors reject Greek social security reform plans

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency

The second day of talks between the Greek government and the country’s creditors as part of the first bailout program

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