Macedonia: Looking upon lustration
It is unthinkable that anywhere in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe a process of public disclosures about those
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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgarian opposition MPs lodge Constitutional Court challenge to Parliament’s special committee probing high-level corruption
A Constitutional Court challenge to a special parliamentary committee to investigate high-level corruption in Bulgaria, voted into existence on September
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US presidential debate blog 2012: No game-changing moment, but a recovery for Romney?
The first live televised 2012 presidential election debate between the Democrats’ US president Barack Obama and Republican Party candidate Mitt
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Bulgaria among ‘Friends of Cohesion Policy’ to hold Bratislava meeting on EU budget
Bulgaria will be among 15 European Union countries – counting 2013 entrant Croatia – at an October 5 2012 meeting
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Sofia raises ‘Capital of Culture’ stakes by promising four new museums by end of 2013
The contest among several Bulgarian cities to be named one of Europe’s capitals of culture in 2019 is a strange
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Schengen: Of political games and playing patience
Bulgaria’s national parliamentary election in 2013 will be fought on issues of considerably greater moment than whether by then the
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Bulgaria’s Parliament sets up ad-hoc committee to investigate high-level corruption
In what socialist opposition MPs decried as a stunt ahead of Bulgaria’s 2013 national parliamentary elections, the National Assembly voted
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Jump in prices of basic foodstuffs aggravates cost of living in Bulgaria
Bulgarian consumers have been hit by sharp increases in the prices of some basic foodstuffs in the past few months,
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Bulgaria awaits clarity on promised pension increases
Pensions in Bulgaria will go up on April 1 2013, the head of Parliament’s committee on the Budget said, the
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