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EU unemployment 10.7% in December 2013, in Bulgaria 13.1% – Eurostat

January 31, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in the 28-member European Union was 10.7 per cent in December 2013, EU statistics office Eurostat said, reporting unemployment

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Neo–nazi attacks shock Slovakia

January 31, 2014 Michaela Terenzani-Stankova of The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

Shocking video images of youths with shaved heads brutally beating a man in front of a bar in Nitra have

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Ukraine faces debt downgrade as Russia puts loan on hold

January 31, 2014 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews Russia, Ukraine

As cities in Ukraine remain in the grip of protests and political crisis, a rating agency has downgraded the country’s

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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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Police bust international network of Romanian payment card fraudsters

January 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Romanian and French law enforcement authorities, supported by the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, have successfully dismantled a Romanian

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Ukrainian parliament passes measure offering amnesty to protesters

January 30, 2014January 30, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s parliament has approved a measure offering amnesty to protesters arrested during anti-government demonstrations, but only if they abandon the

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Serbia to hold early elections

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 VOANews Serbia

Serbia’s president has dissolved parliament and called for early elections, in an effort to garner more popular support for economic

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Ukrainian parliament ponders amnesty for protesters

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 VOANews Ukraine

Ukraine’s parliament is considering on Wednesday an amnesty for scores of people arrested during the past two months of recent

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Ukraine protesters remain defiant after government resigns

January 29, 2014February 10, 2014 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich has accepted the resignation of the government in a bid to quell violent anti-government protests that

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