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Published at 16-12-2006 from Portal Europe
UNDP National Human Development Report identifies gaps in preparations and indicates opportunities to boost readiness
to use EU funds
Bulgaria is not fully prepared to be part of the uptake and management of EU funds, says the National Human
Development Report, released today. A series of in-depth surveys done for the Report unveil a range of weaknesses in
the readiness of... |
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16-12-2006 • News & Events
Finlands six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union will come to an end on 31 December 2006. Finland is
satisfied with the results of its Presidency. Central focus was on enlargement, energy policy, the strengthening of
competitiveness, combating climate change, immigration, the Middle East and cooperation between the EU and Russia.
The beginning of the...
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15-12-2006 • News & Events
"Resisting eastern expansion" by George Parker.
Ivan "the Doctor" Todorov's luck finally ran out. One of Europe's biggest cigarette smugglers, he had been
living on borrowed time since surviving a car bomb in downtown Sofia in 2003. But on February 22, gunmen pumped his
Porsche Cayenne with bullets in broad daylight in downtown Sofia.
Contract killings are not...
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14-12-2006 • News & Events
The Finnish Prime Minister and the President of the European Commission have both been sent a letter urging them to
review the policy of fully shutting down the Kozluduy Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria.
Matti Vanhanen and Jose Manuel Barroso were warned that unless the decision is reversed "we are going to see
blackouts, hardships, environmental damage as well as increased...
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Published at 06-12-2006 from International Herald Tribune
SOFIA: The trial of Vanko 1 was a rare event in Bulgaria, not because of his high profile as one of the country's
top rap artists but because the judicial system made a successful prosecution.
The rapper, whose real name is Ivan Glavchev, was sentenced in 2003 to 12 years in prison for running an organization
that exported Bulgarian prostitutes, including minors, to... |
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27-11-2006 • News & Events
The European Parliament will conduct a hearing with each of the Commissioners-designate on Monday 27 November, the
site of the European Parliament announced. This background note contains information for journalists wishing to follow
the hearings.
On 1 January 2007 the Accession Treaties of Bulgaria and Romania will enter into force and both countries will join
the European...
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26-11-2006 • News & Events
European Liberal Democrats welcome the constructive and positive tone of the two final parliamentary reports on the
accession of Bulgaria and Romania. The reports were voted in the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Here is the content of an ALDE press-release on the matter:
"The final reports of the European Parliament on Bulgaria and Romania represent the majority opinion...
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24-11-2006 • News & Events
Today the Netherlands Council of Ministers decided that the Netherlands will gradually open its labour market to
employees from Bulgaria and Romania.
A transitional regime will be in force for an initial period of two years as of 1st January 2007. During these two
years a working permit will only be provided in those cases where qualified personnel cannot be found in the...
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14-11-2006 • News & Events
The Greens in the European Parliament proposed a vote on recognizing a Macedonian minority in Bulgaria, sparking an
outcry in the country, due to join the EU in 2007, reports the Novinite.com.
The controversial suggestion was tabled as an amendment to the draft report of Geoffrey Van Orden, rapporteur for
Bulgaria in the European Parliament.
The amendment calls for...
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13-11-2006 • News & Events
British detectives are being sent to Eastern Europe to bolster crime-fighting techniques amid fears that Bulgarian and
Romanian gangs are ready to exploit their countries' forthcoming membership of the EU.
A team of up to five officers from Scotland Yard will travel to Sofia in the next few weeks to advise local officers
and improve liaison as ministers study a Cabinet...
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Published at 08-11-2006 from European Commission
Which country will join next and when? Will there be another "big bang"?
The present enlargement agenda covers the countries of the Western Balkans and Turkey. These countries are at various
stages on their road towards the EU. Negotiations with Croatia and Turkey were opened in late 2005. The former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia became a candidate country in December 2005.... |
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08-11-2006 • News & Events
Albania
Albania signed a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU on 12 June 2006. Signing this agreement
represented an important step forward on Albania's EU path. Albania now faces the challenge of successfully
implementing its SAA, starting with the trade-related provisions contained in the interim agreement, which enters into
force on 1 December...
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08-11-2006 • News & Events
Croatia
EU accession negotiations began with Croatia on 3 October 2005 and are continuing.
Political criteria
Croatia continues to meet the Copenhagen political criteria and the political situation has continued to improve.
Implementation of strategies for reforming the judiciary and fighting corruption has begun. Croatia has moved forward
on minorities and refugee...
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07-11-2006 • News & Events
The European Commission is unlikely to recommend a partial suspension of Turkey's EU membership talks over the
Cyprus issue in a key report on Wednesday, with individual commissioners reportedly divided over the matter.
The Financial Times wrote on Tuesday (7 November) that Brussels is set to postpone a recommendation on whether or not
to freeze the talks until a later...
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24-10-2006 • News & Events
EU institutions are wrangling over the appointment of two new commissioners from Romania and Bulgaria, with the
European Commission and the European Parliament each pressing the other to speed up procedure and avoid painful delays.
With the accession date of the two newest EU member states - 1 January 2007 - fast approaching, EU officials are
growing increasingly impatient...
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Published at 19-10-2006 from Financial Times
Stefan Singeorzan, mayor of the village of Feldru in northern Romania, points to a half-built five-storey house and
says: "Three years of working abroad to get this far. Another four to finish it off."
Nearby stand three freshly completed homes - one painted yellow, one pink and one red - all fitted with modern
kitchens and bathrooms and double-glazed windows to keep out the... |
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18-10-2006 • News & Events
Honourable Chairman, honourable members,
It is with great pleasure that I accepted your invitation to address the meeting of your Committee. I will use this
opportunity to inform you and discuss with you on matters related to enlargement, in particular the September report of
the Commission on Bulgaria and Romania.
Three weeks ago, the Commission issued its report on the...
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18-10-2006 • News & Events
EU foreign ministers have formally endorsed the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the bloc in 2007 - but the slow
entry preparations of the two countries has prompted the EU to draw lessons for future enlargements of the bloc.
The ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday (17 October) rubber-stamped the European Commission's
recommendation that the countries join in...
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17-10-2006 • News & Events
Serbian authorities are making no serious effort to deliver fugitive war crimes indictee Ratko Mladic to the United
Nations tribunal in The Hague (ICTY), Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte said Monday in Luxembourg.
In fact, Serbia had 'no real political will and no investigative will to find Mladic,' and was probably
waiting for the fugitive general to surrender...
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05-10-2006 • News & Events
MIGRANTS from Romania and Bulgaria could be flooding into Britain by Christmas.
The move follows Labour plans to scrap visa restrictions early.
Ministers are set to lift current controls on entry to the UK by December - even though they do not need to until the
Eastern bloc pair officially join the EU on January 1. It will allow the Eastern Europeans to flock to the UK...
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27-09-2006 • News & Events
The prospect of tough EU safeguards will hang like a Damocles sword over Bulgaria and Romania when they become the
newest members of the club in January.
Sofia and Bucharest on Tuesday (26 September) received the long awaited go-ahead from the European Commission to enter
the EU as planned on 1 January 2007, avoiding the worst-case scenario of a one-year membership delay....
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25-09-2006 • News & Events
The European Commission is set to say Bulgaria and Romania may join the EU in January - but the draft monitoring
report, seen by EUobserver, threatens safeguards unless they take immediate action on judicial and administrative
reform.
The draft report, due to be published on Tuesday (26 September), says that while the two countries have "reached a
high degree of alignment"...
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24-09-2006 • News & Events
Several news agencies and the BBC have had access Friday night to the draft report concerning Romania and Bulgaria,
four days ahead of the publication of the text.
In an attempt to test the public opinion in the EU, the Brussels executive leaked to these media parts of the
information to be published on 26 September in Brussels.
According to this, Romania and Bulgaria would...
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Published at 13-09-2006 from Daily Telegraph
By David Rennie
Western Europe feels a long way away when you stand on the wrecked, litter-strewn streets of Sheker Mahala, one of
Bulgaria's poorest Roma ghettos.
Low houses, made of poorly cemented bricks and sheets of metal, line a potholed plain of dust, scrub and rubbish.
One evening this week, men rooted listlessly through a pile of rubbish, while a skinny horse... |
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Published at 08-09-2006 from EUexpands
Romanian and Bulgarian officials did not manage to get any political information concerning their chances to join the
EU with or without the restrictive safeguard clauses in 2007.
Different officials from the acceding countries, including Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev have been in
Brussels this week.
In the mean time, the European press gave alarming signals... |
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08-09-2006 • News & Events
Opinion of Georgi Gotev, Head of Bulgaria in the EU Press Center.
The statements of the European parliament rapporteur for Bulgaria Geoffrey Van Orden who call premature the decision
for an accession date for Bulgaria and Romania until the European Council meeting next December 14 came as an
unpleasant surprise. We have no reasons to doubt Mr Van Orden's judgement,...
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07-09-2006 • News & Events
Geoffrey Van Orden: The signs are positive for 1st January 2007, but there might be some conditionality - September 7,
2006 - Government's press-center for EU news.
Geoffrey Van Orden is the rapporteur for Bulgaria in the European Parliament. He was born in 1945. Van Orden is member
of the British Conservative Party. He has a degree in political science and has worked...
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07-09-2006 • News & Events
On September the 6th during the European Parliament plenary session, liberal MEP Mohacsi Victoria met European
Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn. Their discussion paid a special focus to the situation of Roma in Romania and
Bulgaria.
Victoria Mohacsi deplored the soft stance the Commission has taken with regard to the situation of Roma in Romania and
Bulgaria. "The...
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07-09-2006 • News & Events
DAVID CHARTER
Bulgarians will not arrive in Britain in big numbers to seek work because the weather will put them off, the
country's Prime Minister said yesterday.
Sergei Stanishev said that the large Bulgarian communities in sunny southern Europe were evidence that his people
would not be following an estimated 600,000 other Eastern Europeans to Britain. Winter...
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Published at 07-09-2006 from The Times
The European Commission is warming up to telling Romania and Bulgaria that they can join in January.
It is making a lot of noise, implying that it has plenty of room for manoeuvre in that decision, but it doesn't.
It maintains that it has plenty of sanctions up its sleeve if they fail to reform once they are in the European Union,
but it doesn't.
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