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06-11-2007 • News & Events
Despite some economic progress, the European Union says corruption, organised crime and ethnic tensions are continuing
to obstruct progress in the Western Balkans, comments Gjeraqina Tuhina for BIRN.
Balkan Insight has obtained an advance copy of the European Commission's annual progress report, due to be issued
on November 6, on the countries that seek to join it. Below...
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15-10-2007 • News & Events
Sofia has said it will not block the signing of a political agreement between the EU and Montenegro later today, after
a temporary compromise solution was found regarding the Bulgarian spelling of the "euro".
"Bulgaria did not want to cause problems for Montenegro and I think it was a responsible approach", Bulgarian prime
minister Sergei Stanishev told journalists in...
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21-09-2007 • News & Events
Bulgaria: For whose benefit?Unemployed Britons can now afford to live the high life, getting beer for 35p and a
slap-up meal for less than £6 ... but they have to move to Bulgaria.
A ruling in the Balkan state has forced authorities to pay EU nationals out of work in the country the same benefit
rate they would get at home.
It means Britons would receive £230...
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18-09-2007 • News & Events
The visa facilitation and readmission agreements were signed today in a ceremony that took place in Brussels with the
participation, from the EU side, of Vice President Franco Frattini (from the Commission) and Foreign Affairs Minister
Rui Carlos Pereira (from the Portuguese Presidency) and, from the Western Balkan countries, of the Ministers of
Interior of Albania, Bosnia and...
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05-09-2007 • News & Events
The International Herald Tribune, Wednesday September 5, based on AP report.
A special panel investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files announced Tuesday that the country's
president, a coalition party head and 19 current parliamentarians all once collaborated with the secret services.
President Georgi Parvanov figures on the list, as does Ahmed Dogan, a...
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05-09-2007 • News & Events
The Guardian, Wednesday September 5, 2007 2:46 AM.
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - A special panel investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files said Tuesday that the
country's current president and 19 lawmakers who once collaborated with the secret service.
The panel began its work in April after a law passed in late 2006 forced open the pre-1989 communist-era secret...
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01-09-2007 • News & Events
By Alexander Stubb MEP, published in the European Voice on 30.8.2007.
EU lobbying is not US lobbying...
The European Parliament was a lonely place in the 1970s. It had virtually no powers and perhaps as a consequence no
friends. At the time MEPs were happy if a lobbyist would pop by for a chat. All doors were open.
Times have changed. Today the Parliament is an equal...
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29-08-2007 • News & Events
By Malcolm Moore in Sofia
Among the paperclips in the bottom drawer of a desk in Bulgaria's National History Museum is a small cardboard box
packed with 5,000-year-old gold rings.
"We found 25,000 of them when we went into a grocery shop a couple of months ago," said Svetla Tsaneva-Dimitrova, the
head of the museum's restoration team.
"A farmer's wife was...
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24-08-2007 • News & Events
Source: openPR.com – Germany.
Health & Medicine Press release from: InterComponentWare (openPR) - Sofia/Bulgaria, August 23, 2007 – Bulgaria
is issuing its first electronic health cards as part of the pilot project of the Ministry of Health and the National
Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). The pilot project for the nationwide introduction of an electronic health card...
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10-08-2007 • News & Events
Bulgaria's Regional Development Ministry on August 8 opened the bidding on 22 lots of EU-funded road and water
infrastructure projects.
The projects are worth a total 21.6 million euro, according to wire agency SeeNews.
The EU will provide 16.2 million euro for the projects, which are aimed to improve infrastructure in towns with
potential for tourism, the ministry...
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23-07-2007 • News & Events
2816th GENERAL AFFAIRS Council meeting
Brussels, 23 July 2007
The Council adopted the following conclusions:
"Reaffirming its Conclusions of 17 October 2006, the Council takes careful note of the Commission Reports on Bulgaria's
and Romania's progress on accompanying measures following Accession, and commends the Commission for its balanced and
objective analysis. The...
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20-07-2007 • News & Events
Rosemary Righter
For eight years, six innocent political prisoners - five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor - have festered in
Muammar Gaddafi's foul Libyan jails. Their ordeal began in 1999, when it emerged that hundreds of children
attending the al-Fateh Paediatric Hospital in Benghazi, where the six worked, had been infected with HIV-contaminated
blood....
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16-07-2007 • News & Events
PEOPLE INVESTIGATION Revealed... simple loophole that lets immigrants pose as self-employed builders, barmen plumbers
& even LAPDANCERS to be cut-price labour.
By Daniel Jones PEOPLE.CO.UK.
TENS of thousands of migrants from lapdancers to bar staff are flooding into Britain by exploiting a jobs loophole.
The workers from Bulgaria and Romania pretend to be SELF EMPLOYED...
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13-07-2007 • News & Events
The Government of Romania and the European Commission signed on Thursday morning at the Government House the Agreement
on the National Strategic Reference Plan, as a reference document for the allocation of structural and cohesion funds,
Rompres reported.
The agreement was signed by PM Tariceanu and European commissioner for regional policy Danuta Hubner.
The head of...
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09-07-2007 • News & Events
France Presse Agency.
Bulgaria's wilderness areas, among the largest in Europe, are threatened by property investors who use legal
loopholes to contest the territories' protected status to build holiday flats.
Last week, Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court stripped the protected status from the country's largest
nature area, Strandzha, which spreads...
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07-07-2007 • News & Events
A press conference with Commissioner Mc Creevy in the Berlaymont press room, Brussels, is scheduled for Thursday 12
July, its topic being - problem solving for EU citizens - SOLVIT 5th Anniversary.
Europe Gateway is a partner media to the Bulgarian SOLVIT centre. In connection to this, we are offering some key
facts in advance.
The Commission will mark the 5th anniversary...
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06-07-2007 • News & Events
European Union governments have demanded that the bloc's 2008 budget be slashed to the lowest level. Reuters.
European Union governments have demanded that the bloc's 2008 budget be slashed to the lowest level for more than
a decade in relative terms, a document obtained by Reuters showed on Friday.
Ambassadors of the EU's 27 member states, who met this week,...
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06-07-2007 • News & Events
The EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament has appointed Elmar Brok MEP as its member for the intergovernmental
conference which will work out the details of the EU reform treaty.
"Elmar Brok has played a key role in the development of European basic treaties and we are confident that he will be
able to ensure that the IGC completes its task to the benefit of all...
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06-07-2007 • News & Events
MEP Ari Vatanen EPP-ED, Chairman of Mobility for Prosperity in Europe, organised the event "The Integrated Approach to
Road Safety" on Monday 14 May in the European Parliament in Brussels. In his speech Ari Vatanen brought to the attention
of the public the drastic differences between EU Member States in deaths on roads: whereas in the Netherlands, UK or
Sweden there are...
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05-07-2007 • News & Events
Zasman daily, Turkey.
When Bulgaria and Romania became European Union members on Jan. 1, 2007, they both controversially had shortcomings as
neither country had totally met all EU requirements.
The European Commission made it clear that there was still much work for both countries to do in a number of areas
that were particularly tricky for our Balkan friends. Last week...
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05-07-2007 • News & Events
MFA China (press release), China.
On July 3, 2007, Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Kong Quan and visiting Bulgaria's Deputy Foreign Minister Feim
Chaushev held consultation between the two Foreign Ministries.
Both sides agreed that recent years have witnessed smooth development of bilateral friendly cooperative ties with
fruitful cooperation of mutual benefits in...
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05-07-2007 • News & Events
Publcation in Peninsula online Qatar, based on a Reuters news.
Bulgaria's Environment Ministry is to fight a Supreme Court decision revoking the protected status of a Black Sea
nature park, a ruling which opens the door to the construction of holiday homes.
"We will definitely appeal. We are preparing the appeal at the moment," a ministry spokeswoman said yesterday....
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30-06-2007 • News & Events
On 2nd July, 2007, the European Insitute is organising a public presentation of the "Priorities for the Portuguese
Presidency of the Council of the European Union".
The event will take place at "Sredetz" Hall of Sheraton Hotel at 11 h.
The public presentation will be given by H.E. Mr. Mario Jesus dos Santos, Ambassador of Portugal to Bulgaria.
Simultaneous English -...
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Published at 29-06-2007 from Financial Times
It is difficult for the European Union to do much about the failure of Romania and Bulgaria to implement
anti-corruption reforms pledged before they joined the union this year.
But that must not be an excuse for doing almost nothing. Brussels this week had the chance to reprimand Bucharest and
Sofia for dragging their feet on corruption - and to threaten sanctions. Instead, a... |
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28-06-2007 • News & Events
The European Commission has received the unanimous opinion of its Air Safety Committee on the fourth update of the
Community list of airlines banned in the European Union. On this basis, an operating ban to all Indonesian airlines as
well as to the Angolan flag carrier, TAAG Angolan airlines, and to Volare Aviation Enterprise from Ukraine, should be
imposed in the coming days....
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28-06-2007 • News & Events
The Times.
How many murders of Bulgarian politicians would it take to get the European Commission to publish a truly critical
report?
Yesterday's "progress statement" on Bulgaria and Romania - which reveals just how little progress they have made
on corruption and criminality - is remarkable for its deliberate mildness. Franco Frattini, Justice and Security...
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28-06-2007 • News & Events
By David Charter in Brussels, THE TIMES.
The gangland murder of Jordanka Zapryanova shocked police hardened to underworld violence and showed the mountain that
Bulgaria still has to climb to combat the mafia and purge its judicial system of corruption.
Mrs Zapryanova, the mother of a murdered mobster, was shot dead the day before she was due to give evidence in court...
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28-06-2007 • News & Events
By Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Claire Soares, THE INDEPENDENT, Published: 28 June 2007.
Romania and Bulgaria are fighting alarming levels of lawlessness with contract killings, criminal mafias and
corruption still plaguing the eastern European members of the European Union.
That was the verdict yesterday of a six-month progress report from the European Commission,...
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26-06-2007 • News & Events
European Commission will criticise Romania and Bulgaria for failing to fight systemic corruption and organised crime.
The European Commission will criticise Romania and Bulgaria in a report on Wednesday for failing to meet EU targets
for improving justice and fighting systemic corruption and organised crime, EU officials said quoted by Javno-Croatia
and Reuters.
They said...
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21-06-2007 • News & Events
Curbs on the number of Romanians and Bulgarians allowed to enter Britain to seek work may be lifted by the end of the
year.
Home Office ministers will consider a relaxation or end to quotas imposed when the states joined the European Union in
January. The curbs, including a cap on the number of low-skilled workers, were set last October by John Reid, the Home
Secretary,...
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