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New EU driving licences to be introduced on January 19

January 18, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

From January 19 2013, all new driving licences issued across the European Union will be in the form of a

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Europe News 

Czech smoking ban could be law this time

January 18, 2013January 18, 2013 Daniel Bardsley for The Prague Post

Proposed more than once in the past but always shelved, a ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants could finally

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Poland’s LOT to seek Dreamliner compensation from Boeing

January 18, 2013January 18, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

Poland’s national airline LOT will seek compensation from Boeing Co. after most of the maker’s flagship 787 Dreamliner passenger jets

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Protests in Sofia against construction at the coast as debate intensifies on future of Bulgaria’s Black Sea

January 18, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff beaches

An estimated more than 2000 people joined in a January 17 2013 protest in Sofia against construction along Bulgaria’s Black

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Euro zone’s debt crisis and austerity policies continue to tamp down growth, UN report says

January 18, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The debt crisis of the euro zone, slowing external demand and high oil process continued to depress Europe, while austerity

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Sex, money, howls of corruption and influence-buying…it must be a Bulgarian business story

January 18, 2013January 31, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It is not every day and everywhere that it is possible to claim a direct link between European Union operational

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The terrorist attack on Israelis at Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport – six months on: Updated

January 18, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack

Amid the frustration, speculation and enduring trauma in these past six months since the July 18 2012 suicide bomb terrorist

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Europe News 

Ready for round two in Czech presidential elections

January 18, 2013January 17, 2013 Jonathan Crane of The Prague Post

Arms raised and smiling for the cameras, Karel Schwarzenberg looked like a man who had just won a boxing match

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Christmas charity campaign raises two million leva

January 17, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Christmas charity has concluded its annual donation drive on January 17, saying that it has collected 2.04 million leva.

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