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Bulgaria’s war of words over ‘paid protest’ allegations

April 9, 2014April 9, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski protests

For months, opposing sides in Bulgaria’s continuing political high dramas have traded allegations about illicit payments to fuel protests –

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit holds talks with Turkish ambassador in Sofia

April 8, 2014April 8, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Issues including the property of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Turkey, problems linked to the flow of Syrian refugees and

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Europe 

Macedonia’s electoral campaign dominated by seductive economic and social offers

April 7, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

At the start of the electoral campaign in Macedonia on April 5, political parties unveiled their programmes and social and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian summer resorts hiring Bulgarians from other CEE countries to fill staff gaps

April 7, 2014April 10, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Faced with difficulties in getting qualified staff, summer resorts in Bulgaria are hiring people from Bulgarian communities in Macedonia, Moldova,

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Business 

Greece’s return to capital markets imminent

April 7, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece is gearing up for a return to capital markets for the first time in four years, potentially in the

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Europe 

United States dispatches F-16s to Romania

April 7, 2014April 7, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Nato, Romania

The Pentagon will send an unspecified numbers of F-16 jet fighters to Romania next week to join military drills, but

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian journalists protest in solidarity with colleague whose car was burnt out

April 4, 2014April 4, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Media

About 100 Bulgarian journalists from various media organisations, along with members of the public, protested on April 4 near the

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World 

Local elections results pave Erdogan’s way to the presidency

April 3, 2014April 3, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Despite his authoritarian behaviour, the financial scandals, the bans on Twitter and YouTube, Recep Tayyip Erdogan emerged victorious from the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey should boost co-operation in air policing to meet Russian flights – President Plevneliev

April 2, 2014April 6, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has said that Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey should boost their co-operation in air policing in the

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