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Latest row exposes rifts in Romania’s ruling coalition

May 20, 2013May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol Romania

The two largest parties in Romania’s ruling coalition are set to re-negotiate their alliance agreement after a row last week

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Romania’s football club owners, agents case goes to re-trial

May 20, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Romania’s high court of justice ruled on May 20 to re-try the lawsuit against eight prominent Romanian football club owners

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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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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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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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