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US Steel to stay in Slovakia’s Košice

March 27, 2013May 27, 2013 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

US Steel Corporation will not sell its U.S. Steel Košice (USSK) subsidiary in eastern Slovakia. Representatives of the Slovak government

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Tens of thousands protest in anti-government strike in Poland

March 27, 2013May 27, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Thousands of workers staged a strike in southern Poland’s industrial Silesia region on March 26 2013 in a protest against

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Bulgaria’s rate of births out of wedlock among highest in EU

March 26, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s rate of births outside marriage, at 56 per cent the same as France, puts the country at third place

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Bulgaria again bottom of EU’s innovation scoreboard

March 26, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

Bulgaria again ranks bottom in the European Union’s 2013 scoreboard of innovation performance, having been at or near the lowest

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Cyprus: Bailout terms ‘painful’ but necessary

March 26, 2013May 27, 2013 VOANews Cyprus

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades says the terms of his country’s new $13 billion bailout are “painful,” but that he had

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Hungary: Tancsics Prize returned

March 25, 2013May 27, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

Echo TV pundit Ferenc Szaniszló announced on Wednesday that he planned to hand back the Tancsics Prize, a top state

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EU officials: Cyprus, lenders reach bailout deal

March 25, 2013May 27, 2013 VOANews Cyprus, euro zone, IMF

Cyprus has avoided bankruptcy by agreeing to a bailout deal that includes the closing of the island nation’s second largest

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Cyprus continues efforts to raise funds by EU deadline

March 22, 2013May 27, 2013 VOANews Cyprus

Cypriot leaders are set to meet Friday in another attempt to raise $7.5 billion by Monday, which is the deadline

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Cyprus poses fresh euro crisis as EU questions Russian investment

March 22, 2013May 27, 2013 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews Cyprus

Political leaders in Cyprus appear to have abandoned plans for a one-off levy on bank deposits in return for a

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