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15-06-2007 • News & Events
The EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament has voted unanimously in favour of the membership of five newly-elected
Bulgarian MEPs from the political party GERB. Gateway EUROPE interviewed EPP-ED Group Chairman Joseph Daul on his
expectations of the new MEPs.
Note: Mr. Daul chose to answer the questions of Gateway Europe in written form.
Did you already have the chance to...
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14-06-2007 • News & Events
By Christopher Condon, Kerin Hope and George Parker - Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007. Published: June 13
2007.
Once Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU, they lost their strongest incentive to reform, write George Parker, Kerin
Hope and Christopher Condon.
Running a football club in Bulgaria is a perilous job. In other countries club owners might fret over poor...
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13-06-2007 • News & Events
By George Parker in Brussels, FINANCIAL TIMES.
Bulgaria and Romania are expected to escape European Union sanctions this month in spite of their failure to crack
down on corruption and organised crime since joining the club in January.
But José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, warned yesterday that the "credibility" of both
countries was at stake and...
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10-06-2007 • News & Events
THE CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY: "Turmoil Erupts Over Bulgaria Bank on Eve of Bush Visit".
By Jeff Stein, CQ Staff. June 8, 2007.
With President Bush scheduled for a high-profile visit to Bulgaria this weekend, a Sofia bank with connections to the
country's leadership is struggling to refute accusations by the Treasury Department that North Korea may have
targeted the...
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Published at 04-06-2007 from EUexpands
Newest EU members try to convince the EU that they are efficient in combating wide spread corruption ahead of the June
EU Commission report that would assess their progress, reports Euexpands.
Speculations in Brussels of the possibility that the two would be punished end of June by the recommendation of the
safeguard clause have made both states nervous.
In Romania, that... |
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01-06-2007 • News & Events
The European Union will this week spell out to Serbia the exact steps needed for the country to clinch closer ties
with the bloc, mainly by arresting war crimes fugitives, EU Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Thursday.
Rehn told Reuters he would meet Serbian President Boris Tadic in Finland on Saturday to detail the EU's to-do list
for Belgrade.
"We will focus on the...
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31-05-2007 • News & Events
By Judith Crosbie
Franco Frattini, the European commissioner for justice, freedom and security, has insisted that he will recommend
triggering safeguard clauses against Romania and Bulgaria if they do not introduce enough judicial reforms and clamp
down on corruption and organised crime. But he said both states must be treated like all other member states during
this process.
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29-05-2007 • News & Events
The number of students sitting the Leaving Cert next week is at its lowest level in over two decades - but the number
of exam students from eastern Europe is increasing steadily.
This year, Romanian and Bulgarian will be examined for the first time in the Leaving, alongside a broad range of other
languages including Polish, Czech, Latvian, Hungarian, Slovakian, Estonian and...
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27-05-2007 • News & Events
Comment published in the Daily Mail on 26th May 2007.
Which building in Europe has the greatest potential power over Britain's citizens? Is it the House of Commons or
10 Downing Street? Or is it the European Parliament? No.
It is this towering office block shelled in blue glass and topped with a pyramid. In ten years' time, its
occupants will be able to make all...
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26-05-2007 • News & Events
By Nick Thorpe - BBC News, Sofia.
Above the main road in Karabunar, a village of 1,800 inhabitants in central Bulgaria, a rain-drenched banner reads:
"Happy Holiday, Winegrowers". And on the reverse side, for drivers just arriving in the village: "Stop the Tax!"
The holiday refers to the feast of St Trifun, patron saint of pruners, and therefore of vineyards.
The tax...
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20-05-2007 • News & Events
By Tsvetelia Ilieva and Kremena Miteva.
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarians voted on Sunday in their first elections for the European Parliament, with the ruling
Socialists favoured to win despite disenchantment with the country's rampant corruption.
Polls show the Socialist party of Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev may win a third of the vote, capturing as many as
seven of...
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19-05-2007 • News & Events
Concerns about endemic corruption and judicial independence dominated the accession negotiations of the two Balkan
countries up until the two countries joined the EU on 1 January.
By Christopher Condon in Bucharest - FINANCIAL TIMES
Traian Basescu, Romania's suspended president, will today seek to return to office following an impeachment
referendum that has focused...
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Published at 15-05-2007 from Times
The future shape of Europe is at stake in Romania's power struggle
Less than five months after Romania joined the European Union, the drive to defeat corruption has all but ground to a
halt. The success of anti-corruption reforms was a central criterion for acceptance of Romania's accession bid.
Yet, since January, a campaigning justice minister has been replaced by... |
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01-05-2007 • News & Events
The impeachment referendum against suspended President Traian Basescu will not put an end to Romania's political
crisis.
By Cristina Viehmann for ISN Security Watch (25/04/07)
Romania's parliament last week approved President Traian Basescu's suspension in a 322-108 vote. It is the
first time in the country's history that a president has been removed from...
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Published at 27-04-2007 from Financial Times
Britain and France have joined forces to demand that Brussels gets tough on -Bulgaria and Romania over "serious"
corruption, amid claims that the European Union's two newest members are being let off the hook.
Sweden and the Netherlands also voiced fears that the European Commission is not taking seriously its promise to
maintain pressure on the two states to complete... |
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04-04-2007 • News & Events
Multilingualism European commissioner Leonard Orban in an interview for Europe Gateway.
Mid-April, European Central Bank representatives are visiting Bulgaria to confer with officials in Sofia about the
official name of the EU currency in Bulgarian language, Sega daily reported this week. The official spelling has to be
"euro" as in all 23 official EU-languages. Bulgaria,...
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25-03-2007 • News & Events
At the official ceremony in the German Historical Museum in Berlin to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of
Rome, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel as President of the European Council, President of the European Parliament
Hans-Gert Pöttering and President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso today sign the so-called
"Berlin Declaration".
For...
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24-03-2007 • News & Events
The European Union is turning 50 - a reason for real celebration. For the signing of the Treaties of Rome in 1957 was
the start of an unprecedented success story. As President of the European Council, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel has
invited all the Heads of State and Government of the other 26 EU Member States, the President of the European Parliament
Hans-Gert...
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24-03-2007 • News & Events
On 25 March, the European Union is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome. The
EU's 50th birthday gives us Europeans the opportunity to look back on this unprecedented success story. Together we
can be proud of what the people in Europe have achieved in the last 50 years. And that is why 25 March is also a day of
confidence for Europe....
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08-03-2007 • News & Events
Croatia has been told by EU officials that it is possible to enter the European Union even if the bloc has not sorted
out its institutional problems.
"We have been reassured by a number of people from the commission and from the EU member countries that should there
be no constitutional arrangement that there are other means (...) that would provide for Croatia to join as...
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06-03-2007 • News & Events
The European Commission today adopted the third update of the Community list of airlines banned in the European Union,
which is now available on the Commission's website. The revised Community list is notable for (1) the withdrawal for
the first time of two carriers who have introduced adequate safety measures, (2) the action by five countries to stop
the operations of...
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16-02-2007 • News & Events
New EU member Bulgaria is grumpy about the continued monitoring by the European Commission of its corruption levels,
proposing the creation of EU-wide measuring standards in a bid to show that much of its sleazy image is mere
"perception."
Only one and a half months after Bulgaria along with Romania entered the EU on 1 January, Bulgarian officials on
Wednesday (14 February)...
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15-02-2007 • News & Events
Serbia's parliament has strongly rejected a UN-fostered plan that paves the way to independence for the breakaway
province of Kosovo.
The 250-member parliament on Wednesday (14 February) voted 225-15 to reject the plan, drafted by UN envoy Martti
Ahtisaari, dashing hopes that a compromise will be worked out between the Serbs and the Kosovo Albanians.
According to AP...
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Published at 12-02-2007 from International Herald Tribune
By Matthew Brunwasser
KARABUNAR, Bulgaria: When Bulgarians entered the European Union they were not expecting a frontal assault on one of
their staples - rakia, a sharp and hearty homemade brandy distilled from grapes or plums grown in their own backyards.
But that is how a recently introduced EU excise tax on homemade alcohol is being perceived here. The tax increases... |
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01-02-2007 • News & Events
Interview for Europe Gateway with Tudor CHIUARIU, Head of Fight Against Fraud Department - DLAF, Romania.
Whose was the idea for the establishment of the post of a Minister Delegate for the control of the implementation of
international grant programs and for monitoring the application of the acquis?
In 2004, in line with EU accession commitments, the Government decided to...
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31-01-2007 • News & Events
The European Commission says it is too early to set a start date for Macedonia's EU entry talks, despite Slovenia
dropping hints that its EU presidency - in the first half of 2008 - could see Skopje get a firm timetable for
negotiations.
Speaking to journalists after a meeting with Macedonian president Branko Crvenkovski on Tuesday (30 January),
commission chief Jose...
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Published at 22-01-2007 from The Guardian
David Hencke
A freedom of information campaign by journalists across Europe has paid off in spectacular fashion
Over the next two years a ground-breaking decision by the council of ministers and the European Parliament will result
in the biggest release of information held by governments to the public and the media since the creation of the European
Union.
All 27 EU... |
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Published at 17-01-2007 from Financial Times
By Kerin Hope
Young pine trees growing on a freshly landscaped hillside bear witness to the efforts of Dundee Precious Metals to
prove its environmental credentials in Bulgaria.
The Canadian mining group has included a large-scale clean-up as part of a $175m investment to modernise and expand
facilities at Chelopech, the largest gold mine in the Balkans.
Laurence... |
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10-01-2007 • News & Events
Executive Agencies with the Ministries of Regional Development, Economy and Environment Do Not Fear Discontinuation of
Funds under PHARE and ISPA.
Note: this has been reported in English by the Bulgaria In The EU Press-Centre, (a government-sponsored initiative).
January 10, 2007, (BTA). PHARE projects in Bulgaria are being implemented at an accelerating rate and there is...
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18-12-2006 • News & Events
The following rules have been applied by the Home Office to Romanians and Bulgarians seeking to work in Britain after
Jan 1:
Visitors: visas will not be required, simply a passport or national identity card. Visitors can stay for three months
without working, or indefinitely if they are entirely self-sufficient. It is unlikely passports will be stamped.
Low skilled...
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