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Bulgaria Conservatives Set to Support President Impeachment (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria's conservative Order, Law and Justice (RZS) party is set to support the President impeachment process launched by the ruling GERB party Wednesday over the transcript scandal.
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Bulgaria Police Bust Charity Lecturer Pedophile (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria police have arrested a 27-year-old charity worker for child pornography offenses in Silistra.
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End of Snow March Madness in Bulgaria (Novinite.com)
The weather situation in Bulgaria has started stabilizing after the unusually inclement weather has threatened to paralyze the country for the past several days.
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Bulgaria's GDP Down Only 5% in 2009 (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria's gross domestic product fell by 5% in 2009, ending a three-year growth pattern, the National Statistics Office in Sofia said on Thursday.
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Bulgaria President Scandal Turns into 'Foreign Policy Disaster' (Novinite.com)
The transcript scandal involving Bulgaria President Georgi Parvanov and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, could grow in to a colossal foreign policy scandal, Blue Coalition MP Asen Agov says.
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Bulgaria's GDP Down Only 5% in 2009 (Novinite.com)
A girl playing violin in front of store window in Sofia, Bulgaria. The 5% contraction of Bulgaria's economy has been revised upwards from the flash data that the statistics office provided a month ago.
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Bulgaria Finance Minister Sets out for Netherlands, UK (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria?s Finance Minister Simeon Djankov is heading Thursday for a working visit to the Netherlands and the UK. Djankov is meeting Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager Thursday afternoon.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-11 10:05 UPDATE 1-Bulgaria revises 2009 GDP decline to 5.0 pct y/y (Interactive Investor)
SOFIA, March 11 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's economy shrank by 5.0 percent on an annual basis in 2009, a touch better than a preliminary estimate of 5.1 percent but still putting it on course to recover slower than its east European peers. The full-year decline reported by the statistics office on Thursday was also close to the government's forecast for a contraction of 4.9 percent in 2009. The Balkan ...
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Bulgaria Interior Minister Skips Seeing Judges to Iron out Conflict (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria?s Interior Minister Tsvetanov did not show at a meeting in which he was supposed to discuss his contradictions with the judiciary.
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Bulgaria FinMin 'Didn't Know' President Conversation Was Recorded (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria Finance minister Simeon Djankov has stated that he didn?t know his scandalous conversation with President Georgi Parvanov was recorded.
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Bulgaria Interior Minister Skips Seeing Judges to Iron out Conflict (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetanov has did not showed up at the invitation of the Supreme Judicial Council. Photo by BGNES
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Bulgaria Rightist Leader: President Needs to Be Taught Lesson (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria?s President Georgi Parvanov has to understand that he cannot violate the constitution, said Blue Coalition leader Ivan Kostov.
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Finance Minister: Bulgaria Won't Be Another Greece (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria?s Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, has vowed to stick to the country?s restrictive budget in order to avoid financial instability. ?Our 2010 budget is such that we will execute it as we have planned.
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Press: Bulgaria Tries to Trick Macedonia into Friendship Treaty (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria is offering a tricky friendship treaty to Macedonia, according to the Macedonian paper Utrinski Vesnik. The newspaper has commented on the recent announced by the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry that it has offered Greece an all-out ?friendship? and good neighborliness treaty.
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Bulgaria PM Probes Socialist Predecessors Contracts (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria's prime minister has demanded for a check of contracts, signed during the term of the previous government without secured financing.
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Belgium: Bulgaria, Romania EU Entry was Mistake, Lesson (Novinite.com)
Europe has learned its lesson after the hasty accession of Romania and Bulgaria and won't repeat that mistake, Belgium's state secretary for European affairs, has said.
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Belgium: Bulgaria, Romania EU Entry was Mistake, Lesson (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union on January 1, 2007 but owing to shortcomings in justice reform and dealing with corruption the commission has kept an eye on developments through a special monitoring mechanism.
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Bulgaria January Construction Index down 31% Y/Y (Novinite.com)
In January 2010 the construction production in Bulgaria is down 31% year on year, data published by the National Statistics Institute (NSI) reveals. The reduction is explained by the crisis in building construction ? over 38% less compared to January 2009.
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Bulgaria Commemorates Rescue of Jews in 1943 (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria commemorated the 67th anniversary of the salvation of Bulgarian Jews and the 65th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust on March 10 with a ceremony at the memorial by the National Assembly.
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Bulgaria Commemorates Rescue of Jews in 1943 (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria's Parliamentary speaker Tsetska Tsacheva is pictured here as she lays flowers at the memorial by the National Assembly. Photo by EPA/BGNES
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