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What lies ahead for Greece’s economy

May 30, 2013May 30, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece’s Central Bank expects the country’s economy to shrink by 4.6 per cent in 2013, a report released on May

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission names another former State Security agent in the media

May 30, 2013May 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the statutory body that checks and discloses the names of people in certain categories who formerly worked

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Europe News 

Austria out front as EU zeroes in on tax evasion

May 30, 2013 Niklas Jakobsson of The Budapest Times

The European Union’s efforts to combat tax evasion took a small step forward on Wednesday as Austria agreed in principle

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Europe News 

Europe hands six nations a deficit reprieve

May 30, 2013May 30, 2013 VOANews European Commission

Europe is giving six of its financially struggling countries, including the major economies in France and Spain, more time to

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UN war crimes court convicts six Bosnian Croats

May 30, 2013May 30, 2013 VOANews

The U.N. war crimes court has convicted six Bosnian-Croat political and military leaders on charges of murder, rape and the

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Deja vu: European Commission’s recipe to fix Bulgaria’s economic woes

May 29, 2013October 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

After finding macroeconomic imbalances in half of EU’s member states, the European Commission issued on May 29 country-specific recommendations on

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Parliament votes Oresharski cabinet into power

May 29, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kristian Vigenin, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Tsvetlin Yovchev

With the votes of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), Bulgaria’s 42nd National

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria reports 286.4M leva Budget deficit for January-April

May 29, 2013May 29, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has reported that the consolidated Budget deficit for the first four months of the year was 286.4

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Bulgaria News 

Borissov’s GERB walks out of Parliament vote on Oresharski cabinet

May 29, 2013May 29, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

One MP from ultra-nationalist party Ataka registered as present in Parliament on May 29, providing a quorum for the vote

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