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There was no illegal eavesdropping, Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry chief secretary says

April 17, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

An investigation by senior prosecutors had not established any illegal eavesdropping by the Interior Ministry while it was not true

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s credit millionaires with State Security links to be identified before May elections

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

The names of Bulgaria’s credit millionaires with links to the country’s communist-era State Security and military intelligence secret services are

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Bulgaria News World 

Bulgarian President joins in condemning Boston bomb attacks, offers condolences

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has condemned the bomb attacks in Boston that cost three lives and led to more than

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian PM, Prosecutor-General speak on eavesdropping controversy

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Marin Raykov

The political furore unleashed by the findings of an investigation by a team of senior prosecutors into alleged illegal electronic

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Monthly inflation in EU was 0.9 per cent in March, -0.4% in Bulgaria

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

Annual inflation in Bulgaria was 1.6 per cent in March 2013 while monthly inflation was -0.4 per cent, according to

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian beekeepers continue protests against pesticides

April 16, 2013April 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Beekeepers in Bulgaria are continuing protests to call for a moratorium on the use of pesticides hazardous to bees, with

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Bulgaria News 

Borissov and GERB back Tsvetanov in eavesdropping controversy

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Boiko Borissov and his centre-right GERB party, facing volleys of calls for election campaign chief and former interior minister Tsvetan

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Bulgaria News 

Tsvetanov should quit politics, rival parties say after eavesdropping report

April 15, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

GERB election campaign chief Tsvetan Tsvetanov should withdraw from politics, given his promise to do so should the Interior Ministry

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Most victims of people trafficking in EU are from Bulgaria and Romania – EC

April 15, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

Most of the several thousand victims of people trafficking in the European Union were from Bulgaria and Romania, the European

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