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26 January, 2018
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EU removes 8 countries from the list weeks after it was set up
Prokopiev's shadow uses media as money-making machine
To the indicted oligarch and his partner, journalism is a fig leaf, a lobbying mechanism and a way to secure public procurement orders
FUD strategy, BG journalists on the road in Europe
Brussels encourages Palestine
MEPs are urging for safe financial sector
MEPs decide how to share out UK chairs after Brexit
Bold steps against radicalisation eyed
Let us make EU closer and comprehensible to citizens
How space inspires new bold innovations
Borisov meets Lagarde
Visegrad Group meets in Budapest
Greenpeace protests in Germany
EU ministers clash again over reforming asylum system
Madrid takes step to block Puigdemont's re-election
Switzerland rebuffs tiny hopes for new EU treaty
Draghi hits at US on weaker dollar policy
Seine overflows in Paris
Sofia seeks assistance from Eurojust on CorpBank case
Holding out hope for half-way Brexit house
Ukraine risks waning Western support
Turkish army blitzkrieg fails
World leaders rally against protectionism in Davos
Macron lures world business elite
EU to invest €873m in energy infrastructure
Coca-Cola sets new goal for world without waste
Turning the world upside down
Silver screen does not tolerate pretence and lies
Europe in old maps
Abode of faith and revolution
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EU Insights
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Mahmoud Abbas urged all EU Members to recognise Palestinian state immediately
MEPs are urging for safe financial sector
Bad loans levels and outdated state aid rules require action
MEPs decide how to share out UK chairs after Brexit
AFCO members gave also green light for transnational lists for the European elections
Bold steps against radicalisation eyed
Let us make EU closer and comprehensible to citizens
How space inspires new bold innovations
Flat-footed for new data rules
Laying firm foundations for European Education Area
Funds to help integrating migrants
Germany's 'grand coalition' blueprint: what happens next
EU warns Romania over planned judicial reforms
Borisov and Timmermans discuss Western Balkans
Galileo centre moves to Spain
Urgent action needed to protect European bees
Greece secures billions as bailout enters final stage
Faster exchange of foreign nationals criminal records
Shrinking CO2 emissions from new lorries, buses and coaches
Consultation on future piracy, counterfeit watch-list launched
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Bulgaria
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European magistrates ask Belgrade about fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev's subpoenas
Peevski in the eye of fake news storm
Misinformation about electricity, limousines, and even envelopes of money is being spread
Bulgaria most corrupt under PM Ivan Kostov
Town criers paid by the oligarchy clean up his image, lie that current figures are worst ever
Delyan Peevski a decade-long target of fake news
Factory hides Bulgarian Madoff
Peevski attacked by Fake News Factory in Brussels
EP Group of The Greens joins slander chorus
The NGOs of the behind-the-scenes powers try to snatch a million out of our pockets
Capital sells cheap manipulations about its Brussels fiasco
Prokopiev's shadow uses media as money-making machine
FUD strategy, BG journalists on the road in Europe
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Interview
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The EU path cannot be followed without good neighbourly relations
History shows that all southeast European countries that have joined the European Union meet that requirement. This includes Bulgaria
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Analysis
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The UK is considering 'managed divergence' from EU rules, which the 27 Member States will reject
Ukraine risks waning Western support
Kyiv should double down on reform in 2018, corruption to be defeated
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The Planet
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Ankara opens front in Syria’s Afrin area aimed at destroying the Kurdish majority forces
World leaders rally against protectionism in Davos
The globalisation faces major crisis, EU needs common foreign policy in response
Pope blames fake news as satanic, sign of intolerance
Macedonia makes compromises to end name dispute with Greece
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Business
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Paris is presented as more attractive for bankers post-Brexit
EU to invest €873m in energy infrastructure
Clean projects to be funded include 8 in the electricity and 9 in the gas sector
Coca-Cola sets new goal for world without waste
The company will collect and recycle a bottle/can for each one it sells by 2030
US slaps new 'America first' tariffs
Norway turns to electric for short flights
New Trans-Pacific trade pact to be signed in Chile
Amazon opens no checkout supermarket
Sanofi inks $11.6bn deal to fight rare diseases
IMF raises 2018-2019 global growth forecast
EU fines Qualcomm €997m for payments to Apple
Air Berlin insolvency to cost German government €200m
Volvo starts selling electric trucks in Europe next year
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Culture
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Exhibition in Basel showcases works by Georg Baselitz to celebrate his 80th birthday
Director Stephan Komandarev:
Silver screen does not tolerate pretence and lies
The big difference between books and screens is that in the first case you visualise the text
Europe in old maps
An exhibition in Sofia presents copies and originals of geographic maps from different parts of the continent
Abode of faith and revolution
RCO meets Europe in Sofia
London Sinfonietta turns 50 with concert
Contemporary art fair in Madrid
As if in a dark mirror
Shape of Water earns 13 Oscar nominations
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