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Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania sign gas grids interconnection memorandum

May 22, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia

Foreign ministers from four Eastern European countries – Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania – signed a memorandum on cooperation in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Romania have ‘no information’ on current and former officials denied US visas

May 22, 2015May 22, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Statements to the US congress by a top state department official that current and former government figures from Bulgaria and

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Europe 

Tsipras looks for political deal in Riga

May 22, 2015May 22, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Prime minister Alexis Tsipras arrived in Riga Thursday for a European Union leaders’ meeting on the sidelines of which he

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Business 

Bulgarian President welcomes ‘new wave’ of German investments

May 21, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has welcomed a “new wave” of German investments in the country, saying that the result of

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Europe 

Macedonian parties continue tent camp in front of institutions

May 20, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The Macedonian opposition has spent the third night in front of the government building. Its activists, supported by dozens of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MRF leader takes court action against fine for electioneering in Turkish mother tongue

May 20, 2015May 22, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Lyutvi Mestan

Lyutvi Mestan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, has lodged court action against the 2000 leva (about 1000

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Europe 

10 hour talks in Strasbourg between Macedonia’s VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Negotiations between the leaders of the two main Macedonian parties, VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM (Macedonian Social Democratic League) lasted for about 10

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Europe 

Tsipras faces Syriza revolt against prospective deal with creditors

May 20, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

A deal between Greece and its creditors over the current bailout programme is apparently closer to being agreed than ever

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Bulgaria 

Probe continues into ‘explosive device’ on Bulgarian bus in Budapest

May 19, 2015May 19, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

Investigations are continuing into the case of a Bulgarian bus that was en route from Prague to Varna and on

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