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Hit by Greek and euro crises, Macedonia slips into recession

September 17, 2012September 17, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

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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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian school year starts on September 17

September 17, 2012September 17, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Education Minister Sergei Ignatov was scheduled to attend the official opening of the new school year at Thomas Jefferson Second

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev visiting Austria

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

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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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Plovdiv 2012 Night of Museums and Galleries being held on September 21

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The 2012 Night of Museums and Galleries in Plovdiv on September 21 will feature more than six hours of cultural

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Exhibition, jazz concert among events on September 17, Day of Sofia

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition entitled “Europe ancient and modern, ecstatic and magical” (European tales and legends) opens on September 17 2012 at

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

International Festival of Glass Sofia 2012 opens on September 18

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The 2012 International Festival of Glass Sofia, in which artists from the United States, Bulgaria, Israel and the Czech Republic

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Spanish group Cie Delreves set for ‘vertical dance’ at NDK in Sofia

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Spanish group Cie Delreves will perform their work Guateque, a “vertical dance” on a facade of the National Palace of

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Europe News World 

US publishing of Katyn crime files should encourage other governments to open their archives, US ambassador to Poland says

September 17, 2012September 16, 2012 The Warsaw Voice

US Ambassador in Warsaw Lee A. Feinstein said  that he hopes that the publication of documents, that has long been

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Business Europe News 

Optimism over euro crisis eases market pressure

September 17, 2012May 22, 2013 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews

Eurozone finance ministers had a spring in their step Friday as they gathered in Cyprus for talks on the debt

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