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Greece requests early exit from bailout deal

October 13, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, IMF

Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis met with IMF managing director, Christine Lagarde in Washington on October 12 to discuss the country’s

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Europe 

Everything ready for Bosnia and Herzegovina general elections

October 11, 2014October 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Bosnia and Herzegovina

A total of 3 278 908 voters are eligible to vote in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s general elections on October 12

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians have about 400M leva in Swiss banks – revenue agency

October 10, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgarians hold about 400 million leva (about 204.69 million euro) in banks in Switzerland, according to calculations by Bulgaria’s National

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Europe 

Romanian president says Lukoil refinery should be nationalised if it closes down

October 10, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Romania

Romanian president Traian Basescu has called on the Romanian government to look into the option of nationalising a refinery run

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Bulgaria 

Ten Bulgarian political parties to get state subsidies totalling 33M leva yearly

October 8, 2014October 8, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

Ten Bulgarian political parties, including two that did not win seats in Parliament, will get state subsidies totalling more than

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Bulgaria 

Rival ultra-nationalists together to have 30 seats in Bulgaria’s Parliament

October 7, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist coalition the Patriotic Front will have 19 seats in Bulgaria’s newly-elected Parliament and its far-right Ataka rivals 11

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Europe 

Lukoil closes refinery in Romania after facility placed under distraint

October 6, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Romania, Russia

A Russian subsidiary in Romania has decided to close down a refinery it operates in Ploiesti after prosecutors levied a

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Bulgaria 

Movement for Rights and Freedoms takes most of votes abroad in Bulgaria’s elections

October 6, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian elections 2014, Turkey

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the party led and supported in the main by Bulgarians of Turkish ethnicity, won

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Europe 

US high ranking diplomat renews warning against corruption in Eastern Europe

October 4, 2014October 6, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Hungary, Romania

Victoria Nuland, assistant US secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, has again criticised, in a speech held in

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