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Euro zone is in recession, according to Eurostat figures

November 15, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The 17-member euro zone has fallen back into recession for the first time since the global financial crisis bit hard

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Constitutional Court ceremony thrown into disarray as President leaves mid-way – updated

November 15, 2012May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol judiciary

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev handed legal experts a quandary on November 15, when he left the ceremony to swear in

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Bulgarian man has collection of 52 Trabants

November 15, 2012November 15, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Ivailo Antonov is able to boast that he owns 52 cars, meaning that he can drive a different one

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Newly identified gene is part of what makes us human

November 15, 2012November 15, 2012 VOANews

What makes us human? An international team of researchers has found a clue: A gene carried only by people –

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Europe News 

EU to donate Nobel Peace Prize money to benefit children in war zones

November 15, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Union is to donate the eight million Swedish kronor (about 930 000 euro) award given to it for

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s controversial Constitutional Court appointee quits current position

November 14, 2012May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol judiciary

Veneta Markovska, appointed to Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court under a cloud of allegations of conflict of interest and corruption, resigned her

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

Advent, and the time of casting of stones in Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod

November 14, 2012November 15, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The eve of the Advent Fast for Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church leaders found them in anything but the mood of quiet

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Romanian football club owners, agents handed heavy sentences

November 14, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Eight prominent Romanian football club owners and football agents were handed heavy sentences by an appeals court in Bucharest on

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Europe News 

Strikes across Europe against unemployment, austerity measures

November 14, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

Thousands of workers are holding coordinated strikes in countries across Europe to protest their governments’ deep spending cuts and tax

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