Permit problem causes lorry queues at Bulgarian-Turkish border
A continuing dispute about the issuing of transit permits led to a two-kilometre queue of lorries at the Bulgarian-Turkish border
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Author: Independent Balkan News Agency
Injuries after new 5.7 Richter scale earthquake shakes Greece’s Cephalonia
A new earthquake of 5.7 on the Richter scale, according to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens,
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Athens wary of third rescue package
Greece is to be granted a third rescue loan by its international lenders, according to German weekly Der Spiegel which
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Macedonia to hold presidential elections on April 13 2014
Presidential elections in Macedonia will be held on April 13 2014. The decision was signed on February 1 by the
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Bulgaria’s European Commissioner, church Patriarch in call for religious and ethnic tolerance
Bulgaria’s European Commissioner, church Patriarch in call for religious and ethnic tolerance Bulgaria’s European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva and Bulgarian Orthodox
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Samaras: ‘Parliamentary elections in Greece in 2016’
Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras, in a speech to the parliamentary group of the governing party New Democracy, set the
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Bulgarian Parliament rejects far-right Ataka’s anti-gay law
Amendments to Bulgaria’s Penal Code proposed by ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov that would have imposed jail and huge
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Bulgaria’s Reformist Bloc in talks on widening anti-government protests
Bulgaria’s opposition Reformist Bloc, a group of right-wing and centrist parties currently without representation in Parliament, has held talks with
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Bulgaria’s muddle over moratorium on selling land to foreigners
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court was expected to overturn a 2013 parliamentary resolution calling for an extension to the year 2020 of
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