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Hungary’s PM Orban again sets sights on utilities firms, ‘powerful friends’

March 29, 2013May 27, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times Hungary

The government needs the people to help defeat foreign-owned utilities firms that want to scotch a plan to lower bills,

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Global credit card fraud network bust, with arrests in Romania

March 29, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Forty-four members of a global credit card fraud network have been arrested in a joint operation co-ordinated by the Romanian

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Global economy improving but Europe lags behind, OECD says

March 29, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Global economic activity is picking up, but the continuing crisis in the euro area is delaying a meaningful recovery, the

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Bulgarian regulator cuts gas, heating prices

March 28, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) approved on March 28 lower prices for natural gas and central heating,

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Cyprus crisis burns Russian investors

March 28, 2013May 27, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Cyprus, Russia

For years, construction companies in Cyprus lured Russians to invest in the Mediterranean island. Over the last decade, 40,000 Russians

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Controversy over poll showing Bulgaria’s GERB making big gain against socialists

March 28, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2013

A new opinion poll by the MBMD agency, released on March 28 2013, showing Boiko Borissov’s party GERB with a

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Bulgaria will not initiate procedure for EU to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, caretaker PM Raykov says

March 28, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack, Marin Raykov

Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov has reiterated that his country will not initiate the procedure for the European Union

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Bulgarian President joins in criticism of IOC intention to drop wrestling from Olympics

March 28, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on March 28 he was “concerned” with the International Olympic Committee’s intention to drop wrestling

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian socialist leader to approach Prosecutor-General over alleged eavesdropping of politicians and business people

March 28, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev said that he would approach the Prosecutor-General after receiving allegations that there had been

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