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Romania sells rail freight company for more than 200M euro

June 23, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Grup Feroviar Roman SA (GFR), a private railway operator, won the bidding for CFR Marfa, Romania’s state owned rail freight

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Bulgaria 

The longest day for Bulgaria

June 21, 2013July 10, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Bulgarians woke up on June 21, in the northern hemisphere the longest day, to the news that after a marathon

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Europe 

Greek coalition to settle ERT dispute through broader agreement

June 20, 2013June 20, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece’s coalition government leaders held fresh crunch talks Wednesday night in Athens in search of a compromise over the closure

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian socialist government’s changes to security system press ahead

June 13, 2013June 13, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has declined a request by centre-right former ruling party GERB to veto changes to the State

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Europe 

Government shutdown of state broadcaster overnight shocks Greece

June 12, 2013June 13, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek national broadcaster ERT was shut down Tuesday. Government spokesman, Simos Kedikoglou, announced a shock decision to pull the plug

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Europe 

US report: Romania holds immense shale gas reserves

June 12, 2013June 12, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Romania

Romania has shale gas reserves of about 1444 billion cubic meters which, judging by the average annual consumption of 14

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Europe 

Embarrassment for Greek government as natural gas firm privatisation fails

June 11, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece was rocked on June 10 by the news that Russian energy giant Gazprom would not be tabling a bid

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Geopolitics bound to determine Cyprus’s energy future

June 11, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus, energy

The intense activity over the Cyprus natural gas reserves in the past few days has provided a silver lining in

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Leisure 

Romania hosting world wine congress from June 2 to 7

June 5, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Bucharest is hosting the 36th world wine and vine congress, attended by 550 participants from 44 countries, 45 years after

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