Bulgaria march for higher wages
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Bulgarian protesters call for better pay in a march held 15 years after the fall of communist ruler Todor Zhivkov.
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HANOVER, Germany - Several thousand Volkswagen AG workers took to the streets Tuesday to press their demand for wage increases and pay guarantees as the automaker prepared to resume pay negotiations with Germany&#39;s biggest industrial union.
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Germany&#39;s powerful IG Metall labour union called on Monday for wage increases this year of 6.5 percent for the 3.4 million workers in the German engineering and metal-working sector.
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Bulgaria&#39;s Socialist Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev vowed Friday to maintain financial stability in the country despite record-high inflation in July and an ever-widening current account gap.
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Bulgaria's next year draft budget envisions economic growth of between 5% and 5.5%, 3.6% annual inflation and a fiscal deficit of 0.5% of the GDP, Finance Minister Milen Velchev said Wednesday.
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Russians start using 5,000-rouble notes again - officially because real incomes have risen.
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Bulgarians voted Sunday in municipal elections that attracted a record number of candidates given the scheduled influx of millions of euros in EU funding over the next few years.
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Tens of thousands of people from across Italy march in Rome to demand work and pension reforms.
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Workers at three factories belonging to German car maker Volkswagen in northern Germany staged protest demonstrations on Tuesday to turn up the pressure on management ahead of a crucial round of wage talks ...
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Musicians, instruments strapped to their backs and signs in hand, marched to the French Quarter on Sunday, demanding better wages and asking tourists, music lovers and political leaders not to take them for granted.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Thousands of angry civil servants turned up the pressure on the beleaguered Hamas government yesterday, marching to demand payment of overdue wages and winning Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's blessing for a major strike next week.
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The European Union agreed to increase its last year financial aid for Bulgaria's farming to EUR56.5 million from initially planned EUR56.1 million under a financial memorandum officials signed Tuesday.
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WOLFSBURG: Volkswagen challenged its workers with a tough wage plan yesterday ahead of talks seen as a gauge of their readiness to favour job security over pay rises, a swap that could make Europe&#39;s biggest economy more competitive.
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Â· Tony Blair helps drum up support at conference Â· Total amount raised exceeds target for reform
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Business: 19 September 2004, Sunday. Bulgarian employers prefer to pay their workers on a minimum hourly rate instead on the grounds of a minimum monthly wage, according to the Chief of Bulgarian Trade, ...
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More than 10,000 people protested in the streets of Bulgaria&#039;s capital Tuesday to demand changes in the government&#039;s economic and social policy, which they blame for the country&#039;s rising cost of living.
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Bulgaria is among the countries with lowest incomes according to a latest report on 42 nations by the Organisation for economic Co-operation and Development, the Sofia daily Sega said Wednesday.