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Protests and price hikes cost Borissov and Bulgaria’s leaders popularity – poll

July 11, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Disenchantment with Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB Government and its leader, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, after the Forestry Act amendments controversy and

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian food minister slammed for racist remark about Roma beach vendors

July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Remarks by Bulgaria’s Agriculture and Food Minister Miroslav Naidenov that he wanted “swarthy fellows” selling corn on the country’s beaches

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Europe News 

Romanian court deepens impasse over presidential impeachment

July 11, 2012 Alex Bivol

Romania’s constitutional court ruled on July 10 to raise the bar for the presidential impeachment referendum, but instead of clarifying

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Europe News World 

CIA flights: EU states must investigate secret detention sites in Europe, EP committee says

July 11, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

European Union member states must investigate whether there were secret prisons or facilities on their territory where people were held

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Euro zone could shed further 4.5M jobs by 2016 – UN report

July 11, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

If current economic policies do not change quickly, the 17-member euro zone may lose 4.5 million jobs over the next

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Europe News World 

Russia sends warships to Mediterranean

July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

For the last year, the Russian government has tried to project an image of neutrality in the increasingly bloody conflict

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Europe News World 

Russia hosts talks with Syrian opposition

July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 VOANews

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is set to host talks Wednesday with the head of the Syrian National Council, the

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Bosnia marks 17th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre

July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 VOANews

Bosnia-Herzegovina is set to mark the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys at

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Bulgaria Business News 

Ski lifts on Sofia’s Vitosha mountain to resume operations

July 10, 2012July 10, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Ski lifts on Vitosha mountain near Sofia, which were halted last year by the company that holds the concession, will

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