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Bulgaria’s rate of births out of wedlock among highest in EU

March 26, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s rate of births outside marriage, at 56 per cent the same as France, puts the country at third place

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Bulgaria unveils ‘energy sector stability’ measures

March 26, 2013May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol energy

Bulgaria’s caretaker Economy Minister Assen Vassilev presented on March 26 a series of measures meant to “guarantee the security of

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Bulgaria again bottom of EU’s innovation scoreboard

March 26, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

Bulgaria again ranks bottom in the European Union’s 2013 scoreboard of innovation performance, having been at or near the lowest

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Bulgaria News 

Mudslinging in spat as CCB boss derides Bulgarian President Plevneliev

March 26, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

A sideshow of mudslinging has broken out after Corporate Commercial Bank majority shareholder Tsvetan Vassilev, one of Bulgaria’s wealthiest business

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Close to 500 people requested refugee status in Bulgaria in first two months of 2013

March 26, 2013March 26, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 476 people applied for refugee status in the first two months of 2013, according to State Agency

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Europe News 

Cyprus: Bailout terms ‘painful’ but necessary

March 26, 2013May 27, 2013 VOANews Cyprus

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades says the terms of his country’s new $13 billion bailout are “painful,” but that he had

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More parties register for Bulgaria’s May 12 early elections

March 25, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2013

The process of Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission accepting applications by political parties to register to stand in the May 12

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian protest group’s ‘Movement for Civic Control’ party spells out principles

March 25, 2013March 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The announcement that one of the groups of protesters in Bulgaria is to field a political party in the May

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Europe News 

Hungary: Tancsics Prize returned

March 25, 2013May 27, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

Echo TV pundit Ferenc Szaniszló announced on Wednesday that he planned to hand back the Tancsics Prize, a top state

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