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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgarian President taking high-tech industries in business delegation to Israel

October 18, 2012October 18, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Representatives of high-tech, R&D and agricultural firms will be in a business delegation that Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is taking

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US presidential debate: Obama fast and furious as Romney fluffs and flubs facts

October 17, 2012October 17, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

In the swordplay in the second US presidential debate, it was Democratic candidate president Barack Obama  who had the real

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Defence Minister Angelov taking fighter jet acquisition plan to Cabinet

October 16, 2012October 16, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Facing Nato member Bulgaria’s continuing shortcoming in fighter jets, Defence Minister Anyu Angelov has revived moves for the country to

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Europe News 

New move to scrap Schengen visa exemption for Serbians and Macedonians because of fake asylum claims

October 15, 2012June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer European Commission, Macedonia, Schengen, Serbia

European Union interior ministers are to be asked at a meeting on October 25 2012 to consider revoking the Schengen

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Approval ratings of Borissov and Cabinet slip but GERB still has largest share of votes – poll

October 12, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has an approval rating only just above his disapproval rating, remains substantially more popular than

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Europe News Perspectives 

Tales of two elections: Lithuania and Montenegro

October 12, 2012October 12, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Election results in the two European countries that vote in parliamentary elections on October 14 2012 are likely to be

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The Biden/Ryan debate: A victory for Ryan, but neither for substance nor for style

October 12, 2012October 12, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The vice-presidential election debate saw Republican Paul Ryan win in the soundbite stakes, including at least one carefully-enunciated zinger that

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Analysis: New poll shows disillusionment with Bulgaria’s Cabinet and major political parties

October 10, 2012October 10, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

With about nine months to go to Bulgaria’s summer 2013 national parliamentary elections, the country’s centre-right Cabinet, ruling party and

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Socialist leader Stanishev wants voter turnout validity bar for Belene referendum lowered

October 9, 2012June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Belene, Sergei Stanishev

With polls suggesting that a proposed national referendum on building a nuclear power station at Belene may be invalid because

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