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Permit problem causes lorry queues at Bulgarian-Turkish border

February 3, 2014February 3, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

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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Europe 

Injuries after new 5.7 Richter scale earthquake shakes Greece’s Cephalonia

February 3, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

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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Europe 

Athens wary of third rescue package

February 3, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece is to be granted a third rescue loan by its international lenders, according to German weekly Der Spiegel which

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Europe 

Macedonia to hold presidential elections on April 13 2014

February 2, 2014February 2, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

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 

Bulgaria’s European Commissioner, church Patriarch in call for religious and ethnic tolerance

January 31, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church

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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Europe 

Samaras: ‘Parliamentary elections in Greece in 2016’

January 30, 2014January 30, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras, in a speech to the parliamentary group of the governing party New Democracy, set the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament rejects far-right Ataka’s anti-gay law

January 30, 2014February 10, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Volen Siderov

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 

Bulgaria’s Reformist Bloc in talks on widening anti-government protests

January 29, 2014February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski 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 

Bulgaria’s muddle over moratorium on selling land to foreigners

January 28, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

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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