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Month: April 2016

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian – Greek border blockade ‘will lose tourist industry 50 million euro’

April 22, 2016April 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

If the blockade of the Bulgarian – Greek border planned by Bulgarian lorry drivers over the Orthodox Easter holidays goes

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MP, deputy Sofia mayor resign over public procurement row

April 22, 2016April 25, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The deputy mayor for transport in Bulgaria’s capital city of Sofia, Lyubomir Hristov, and an MP for the country’s ruling

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Europe 

Huge embarrassment as Romania gets axed from Eurovision

April 22, 2016April 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romania has been excluded from the Eurovision music contest over unsolved financial issues with the official broadcaster of the show.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church: Besides the Orthodox Church ‘there are no other churches, only heresies and schisms’

April 22, 2016May 5, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, the church’s governing body, has adopted hard-line policy positions ahead of the Pan-Orthodox Council

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Europe 

Protests continue in Skopje

April 22, 2016April 23, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Two massive protests were held on the night of April 21 in Skopje, with a strong police presence. On one hand

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Europe 

Doctors expect Slovak PM Fico to undergo bypass surgery

April 21, 2016 The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico who has been hospitalised in the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Bratislava since April

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Europe 

EU cancels Vienna talks on Macedonia crisis

April 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

The European Union has cancelled what were intended to be talks bringing together the Republic of Macedonia’s major parties to

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Europe 

Macedonia: ‘Colourful Revolution’ paints raucous rainbow

April 21, 2016 Deutsche Welle Macedonia

Bright colours are everywhere in downtown Skopje. Protests happen every evening at 6, and people are demanding change in what

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Leisure 

Steve McCurry photo exhibition in Sofia from May 25 – June 17

April 21, 2016April 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition of photographs and documentary footage by America’s Steve McCurry will be held at the Vivacom Art Hall gallery

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