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Microsoft under investigation in US for alleged bribes in Romania

March 20, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

The US justice department and securities regulator were investigating Microsoft after a former company representative made allegations that Microsoft business

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Romania says could ‘lose interest’ in Schengen accession

March 4, 2013May 27, 2013 Alex Bivol Romania, Schengen

Romania could lose interest in joining the Schengen visa-free travel area if its accession is  again blocked at the forthcoming

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Europe News Perspectives 

Romania’s election – hard figures and a hard future

December 14, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Romania

Romania boasts the largest administrative building in the world, the Parliament Palace that is home to its bicameral parliament –

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Schengen: Of political games and playing patience

September 21, 2012June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Nikolai Mladenov, Romania, Schengen

Bulgaria’s national parliamentary election in 2013 will be fought on issues of considerably greater moment than whether by then the

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Politics of Europe: Romania seems to stumble in three-legged race with Bulgaria

September 3, 2012June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

The pollsters have it that Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta’s leftist Social Democratic Party will win the largest share of

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Europe News 

Former Romanian PM Nastase attempts suicide after court sentencing

June 21, 2012May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Former Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase attempted to commit suicide on the evening of June 20 rather than be taken

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Perspectives 

To the Editor: Accusations against Romania’s Ponta are unsubstantiated

June 20, 2012May 27, 2013 Romanian government press office Romania

Dear Mr Chief Editor, As you are well aware, on the 18th of June, Mr. Victor Ponta, the Prime Minister

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Europe News 

Romania’s prime minister accused of plagiarism

June 19, 2012May 27, 2013 Alex Bivol Romania

Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta has become the latest high-ranking European politician to become embroiled in a plagiarism row after

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Europe News 

Romania threatens to make Hungarian House Speaker persona non grata

June 13, 2012May 27, 2013 Benedicte Williams of The Budapest Times Hungary, Romania

Parliament Speaker László Kövér left for Romania on Tuesday to campaign for an ethnic Hungarian party despite already soured relations

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