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Europe News 

Euro zone finance ministers meet on Greek bailout

November 27, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

Eurozone finance ministers are trying to reach a deal on immediate bailout money for Greece in an effort to help

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Europe News 

Polish PM Tusk: Cohesion and CAP funds not targets for cuts in EU budget talks

November 27, 2012May 22, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

Poland enjoys “relative safety” for its chief economic interests in EU budgeting talks thanks to commitments by chief EU players

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Bulgaria News 

Nadezhda Neynski, former UDF leader and ex-foreign minister, quits UDF after rebels axed

November 26, 2012November 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Nadezhda Neynski, a former leader of the right-wing Union of Democratic Forces and who was foreign minister during the 1997

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The headquarters in Sofia of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria News 

Fewer holes in Holy Synod as Bulgarian Orthodox Church drama takes new turn

November 26, 2012November 26, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Controversial Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolai and his allies apparently suspended their boycott – or period of mourning, as they put it

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Bulgaria News 

Former leader among UDF MPs expelled after rebellion in Bulgarian Constitutional Court drama

November 26, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer judiciary

The former leader of Bulgarian right-wing minority party, Martin Dimitrov, was among a group of MPs expelled from the party

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Brazilian Film Week 2012 opens in Sofia on November 26

November 26, 2012November 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Brazilian Film Week 2012, organised by the embassy of Brazil in Sofia and the Bulgarian National Film Archive and which runs

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Europe News 

Region: Doctors protest against healthcare reform

November 26, 2012 Kasia Pilat for The Prague Post

‘Thank you, we are leaving’ campaign spreads across CEE region Long-running tensions between doctors and governments in the Visegrad Four

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Bulgaria News 

Second round of cleanup of anti-Semitic and other hate speech graffiti in Sofia

November 26, 2012November 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Volunteers from various ethnic communities in Sofia joined on November 25 2012 in a cleanup of swastikas and other symbols

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Facebook power grab?

November 26, 2012November 26, 2012 Doug Bernard of VOANews

Should Facebook Be Able To “Dislike” Privacy Changes?  There’s an old truism in public relations: if you have bad news

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