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07-05-2008 • News & Events
The European Central Bank (ECB) publishes its Convergence Report 2008, an assessment of the economic and legal
convergence of ten EU Member States: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland,
Romania, Slovakia and Sweden. The report examines whether a high degree of sustainable economic convergence has been
achieved in these countries. In...
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30-04-2008 • News & Events
Hungary's Ferenc Rákóczi II Foundation has won the first ever Charlemagne Youth Prize for its
"Students without Boundaries" project. It was one of three prizes awarded on 29 April to projects which were judged to
have fostered a shared sense of European identity and cultural exchange. Second place went to the projects in the UK
and Greece. Parliament's...
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30-04-2008 • News & Events
By Patricia McDonagh - The Irish Independent.
'It was hard, but we arrived at the end of the road. It is the road to our future. It is the road of our joy.'
Romanian President Traian Basescu uttered these words on January 1, 2007.
Tens of thousands of revellers cheered at the thought of a better life as they celebrated...
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29-04-2008 • News & Events
The European Union is to sign a pact on closer ties with Serbia. The so-called Stabilisation and Association Agreement
is a first step to future EU membership, Euronews reported. The move had been opposed by the Netherlands and Belgium
who've called on Belgrade to do more to catch war crimes suspects....
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29-04-2008 • News & Events
The Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev informed the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso in
a telephone conversation about the structural and personal changes in the government which were approved by the
Parliament in the end of last week, the government's press service announced. The EC President has stated that
Bulgaria needed strong, proactive...
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24-04-2008 • News & Events
The Bulgarian Parliament approved the draft decision on the personal changes in the Council of Ministers.
According to the adopted decision Mihail Mikov becomes Minister of Internal Affairs, Nikolay Tsonev - Minister of
Defence, Evgenii Jelev - Minister of Health and Valeri Tsvetanov - Minister of Agriculture and Food Supply. Meglena
Plugchieva is elected on the newly...
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22-04-2008 • News & Events
The Prosecutor's Office has started investigation against Dimitar Tadarukov, Executive Director of the Agriculture
State Fund, because of data for mis-spending of approximately BGN 22 million under SAPARD program, Mediapool reported on
April 18. The affair is directly related to the accusations of mis-spending of European funds against Assen Drumev, the
previous head of...
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22-04-2008 • News & Events
For the first time the Thracian issue finds place in the report on Turkey's progress to EU accession, PES
reported. The EP Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted a decision to include the issue about the compensation of
Bulgarian Thracian refugees in the report on Turkey's progress for 2007. This issue shall find a place in a
resolution of the European Parliament for the...
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22-04-2008 • News & Events
The successors of Vesselin Bliznakov, Nihat Kabil, Radoslav Gaidarski and Rumen Petkov, who has resigned, are already
clear. The names of the new ministers in the Stanishev's Cabinet were announced by Emilia Maslarova, Minister of
Social Affairs, Darik radio reported....
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22-04-2008 • News & Events
More than 1,000 Moldovans, Ukrainians and Russians every month are applying for Bulgarian nationality - prompting
claims that many are then heading straight to Britain.
The news comes after figures showed that the numbers of Bulgarians and Romanians visiting Britain rose by 77 per cent
in 12 months.
They are allowed to visit as many times as they want after their countries...
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21-04-2008 • News & Events
The outcome of the negotiations between East European countries and the US for cancellation of visas depends on who
will be the next American President. What are the attitudes of the Presidential Candidates towards the issue?
All three Presidential Candidates support the general program for lifting visa restrictions for East European
countries but regarding Bulgaria its...
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19-04-2008 • News & Events
Comments made by European Commissioner Olli Rehn in his opening remarks at the beginning of the international conference
Civil Society Development in Southeast Europe: Building Europe together which took place in Brussels on April 17 and 18,
2008.
The role of the civil society in the way towards accession of the Western Balkan countries is of great importance.
Turkey has been...
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19-04-2008 • News & Events
EPP-ED MEPs have raised several issues in a joint meeting of the EP’s Foreign Affairs Committee and its Delegation
for Relations with Iraq, with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki in the European Parliament on Wednesday 16 April.
The meeting was co-chaired by Jacek Saryusz-Wolski MEP (EPP-ED, Poland), who enquired whether Iraq was prepared to hold
its first free...
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18-04-2008 • News & Events
The global financier and philanthropist, George Soros commented on the global financial crisis during the
International conference Civil Society Development in Southeast Europe: Building Europe together in Brussels on April
17. He answered a question by the participants who wanted to know his opinion on whether the financial crisis could
affect NGOs in the Western Balkans and...
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18-04-2008 • News & Events
"A deputy prime minister without portfolio shall be responsible for the assimilation of European funds", announced the
deputy chairman of NMSP Milen Velchev.
This has been negotiated at the last night's meeting of the three leaders of the ruling coalition...
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16-04-2008 • News & Events
On 17 April 2008 the EPP-ED Group will hold the hearing "CHERNOBYL TODAY". The hearing aims to highlight the violations
of human rights in Belarus focusing on the victims of Chernobyl catastrophe (April 26, 1986) in general and in
particular - the liquidators* of the disaster. The legacy of Chernobyl, the ecological and demographic situation in
Belarus and the EU Member States, i.
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01-04-2008 • News & Events
Finland's National Coalition party confirmed Tuesday it had chosen Alexander Stubb, a member of the European
Parliament since 2004, to replace Ilkka Kanerva as foreign minister, STT reports.
Jyrki Katainen, the finance minister and Conservative leader, had said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Kanerva could not
carry on as foreign minister. The announcement came the day a...
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14-03-2008 • News & Events
“Regulations and Business Together for an Inclusive Workplace” - Tuesday 18th March 2008, ANEL Hotel -
Sofia. Bulgarian MEP Mariela Baeva (ALDE-MFR) organizes a conference in Sofia on March 18 on the intergation of people
with disabilities; the media partner is Europe.bg gateway.
Today, observers consider there is a deep lack of integration of people with...
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05-02-2008 • News & Events
Ms. Gergana Gruncharova, Minister on European affairs, comments for Gateway EUROPE, that the Lisbon Treaty allows the
EU to function effectively with the new 12 member states.
Minister Grancharova takes part in the conference "Lisbon Treaty - European perspectives".
Ms. Gruncharova, soon, the Lisbon Treaty t will be put forward to the Parliament for ratification. What...
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16-01-2008 • News & Events
Europe Gateway presents an interview with the European Ombudsman Nikoforos Diamandouros concerning the public access
to MEPs' expenses and public policies.
Have you received complaints about the current expenses of MEPs? Could you give an example?
I received a complaint from a Maltese journalist who asked the European Parliament (EP) to give him access to data...
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04-01-2008 • News & Events
Daily Times, Pakistan.
Every day ex-communist Bulgaria proudly announces yet another foreign investment project for a new shopping mall, a
golf course or a residential complex.
The real estate boom has created new jobs and the government boasts an economic growth of 6 percent a year. But
investing in construction alone cannot bring long-term prosperity to the poorest European...
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27-12-2007 • News & Events
Daily Times, Pakistan - Wednesday, December 26, 2007.
SOFIA: Every day ex-communist Bulgaria proudly announces yet another foreign investment project for a new shopping
mall, a golf course or a residential complex.
The real estate boom has created new jobs and the government boasts an economic growth of 6 percent a year. But
investing in construction alone cannot bring...
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27-12-2007 • News & Events
Liverpool (UK) and Stavanger (Norway) are the two European Capitals of Culture for the year 2008, the European
Commission announced in a press-release.
Designed to "contribute to bringing the peoples of Europe together", the European City of Culture project was launched,
at the initiative of Melina Mercouri, by the Council of Ministers on 13 June 1985. It has grown in...
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20-12-2007 • News & Events
Today the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee adopted the opinion of Diana Wallis MEP's (LibDem, UK)
on a common framework for lobbyists working in the European Union. Some estimates claim that the number of lobbyists in
Brussels is reaching Washington proportions. It is necessary, against this backdrop, for EU institutions to have robust
systems in place. The...
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12-12-2007 • News & Events
From Emma Mahony. Times Online, December 11, 2007.
Bulgaria, you are boycotted. I, for one, as travel journalist and mother of three, shall never darken your airport
doors, nor set foot on your blood-stained ground until you clean up your act and start to look after the vulnerable
children in your care.
Anyone who has the stomach to view BBC4’s forthcoming documentary...
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04-12-2007 • News & Events
By Bertrand Benoit in Hanover - Financial Times.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, on Monday launched a searing attack on top-earning managers and called for
“intelligent regulation” of global financial markets in an opening salvo by her Christian Democratic Union
to woo left-of-centre voters ahead of key regional elections next month.
In a veiled reference to...
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21-11-2007 • News & Events
'They washed their hands' of B.C. man's case. Don Martin, National Post.
Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
OTTAWA -It might not be death-row drudgery in Montana or the leg-ironed lifestyle of an Afghanistan incarceration, but
a dozen years in a Bulgarian prison is a cruel life sentence, especially for a former Canadian millionaire jailed on a
questionable...
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21-11-2007 • News & Events
Richard Foot, CanWest News Service, Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2007.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and two of his most trusted ministers have for more than a year been quietly pressuring
the Bulgarian government to transfer home to Canada a former millionaire Canadian businessman jailed overseas since
1996 on charges of fraud and embezzlement, CanWest News Service has...
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21-11-2007 • News & Events
Jailed Canadian seeks transfer to Canada. Richard Foot, CanWest News Service.
Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The wife of a Canadian businessman jailed for the past 12 years in Bulgaria says she fears that authorities will
murder her husband in prison, rather than transfer him to Canada.
"We're not even sure if he'll get out dead or alive," said Tracy Kapoustin,...
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09-11-2007 • News & Events
Growth in the European Union economy is expected to decelerate from 2.9% in 2007 to 2.4% in both 2008 and 2009 (from
2.6% to 2.2% in 2008 and 2.1% in 2009 in the euro area) according to the Commission's autumn economic forecast,
informs Rapid. This follows from the impact of the turbulence in the financial markets that has caused tighter
financing conditions and increased...
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