Hit by Greek and euro crises, Macedonia slips into recession
Macedonia is in recession after reporting two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, contracting 1.4 per cent in the first
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Bulgarian President Plevneliev visiting Austria
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is on a working visit to Austria on September 17 and 18 2012, the President’s press
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US publishing of Katyn crime files should encourage other governments to open their archives, US ambassador to Poland says
US Ambassador in Warsaw Lee A. Feinstein said that he hopes that the publication of documents, that has long been
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Optimism over euro crisis eases market pressure
Eurozone finance ministers had a spring in their step Friday as they gathered in Cyprus for talks on the debt
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Bulgarian FM Mladenov speaks on Macedonia’s ‘Third Half’ film controversy
Macedonia’s controversial film Third Half, which emphasises Bulgaria’s World War 2 role in the deportation to Nazi death camps of
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Election results in Netherlands could mean step forward for Bulgaria’s Schengen entry, Tsvetanov says
The outcome of the September 12 2012 elections in the Netherlands, in which prime minister Mark Rutte’s liberal VVD party
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Pussy Riot sentence is deeply disappointing political intimidation, members of European Parliament say
The human rights situation in Russia has deteriorated drastically in the past few months, with the adoption of a series
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Greeks to hold general strike on September 26
Greece’s two main labor unions have announced a general strike on September 26 against planned austerity measures. A spokeswoman for
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France, Romania sign Roma repatriation deal
Romania and France have signed a two-year framework agreement on September 12 for the repatriation of Romanian citizens of Roma
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