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Bulgaria fires motor vehicle inspector filmed bullying Turkish lorry driver for a bribe

June 4, 2015June 7, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

Footage filmed by a Turkish lorry driver of how he was forced by a Bulgarian Motor Vehicle Administration roadside inspector

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Business 

Bulgaria and Serbia agree to accelerate work on gas interconnector plan

June 4, 2015June 4, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Serbia

Bulgaria and Serbia have undertaken to work faster on building gas interconnectors, Bulgaria’s Economy Ministry said at the close of

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Europe 

Tsipras meets Juncker for crunch talks in Brussels

June 4, 2015June 4, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreed in a telephone call with German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande

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Europe 

Tsipras: Greece made ‘comprehensive and realistic proposal’ to creditors

June 3, 2015June 3, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece has sent a “comprehensive and realistic proposal” to its creditors that it hopes will seal a deal over its

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Europe 

Fresh elections in Macedonia in April 2016, says EU commissioner Hahn

June 2, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on June 2, after negotiating several hours in Skopje with leaders of the four main

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Europe 

Athens in search of quick deal with creditors to avert June default

June 2, 2015June 2, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek government sources suggest an interim deal will be agreed imminently that would secure Athens meets its heavy debt repayment

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Business 

Bulgaria and Serbia talk up expansion of economic co-operation

June 1, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

Bulgaria’s economy minister and Serbia’s mining and energy minister have issued calls to boost economic co-operation between their countries. “Bulgaria

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Bulgaria 

PM: Bulgarian govt spent six months on urgent problems, now looking at the longer term

June 1, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, IMF, World Bank

Bulgaria’s government is working to ensure political stability in Bulgaria and improving the country’s international reputation, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov

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Bulgaria’s summer 2015 seaside tourist season officially opens

June 1, 2015June 3, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Bourgas, tourism, Varna

Bulgaria’s Black Sea tourism season 2015 officially opened on June 1. At the central beach in Bourgas, the city on

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