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05-09-2006 • News & Events
Yesterday the Foreign Affairs Committee voted to continue its support of Turkey's EU membership bid.
Andrew Duff, spokesman for the Liberal Group (ALDE), said that Parliament must continue to engage with the Turkish
accession process.
In a statement today, Duff says: 'Parliament rightly confirms its positive support to the accession process of
Turkey. It is also...
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05-09-2006 • News & Events
In the first European Parliament session of the new parliamentary year, Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, the European
Parliament's Rapporteur for Bulgaria, urged the European Commission, the European Council and the European
Parliament's President to again intervene on behalf of the Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor on retrial in
Libya.
Mr Van Orden commented:
"I am...
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05-09-2006 • News & Events
Bulgaria and Romania are set to get the go-ahead to join the European Union on January 1 under the strictest
conditions ever applied to new members of the club.
Bulgaria will come under the toughest EU scrutiny and faces possible legal and financial sanctions unless it proves it
is serious in tackling organised crime and high-level corruption.
Olli Rehn, the enlargement...
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Published at 29-08-2006 from The Guardian
Neil Clark
As the entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union edges closer, condescension towards eastern Europeans and
their countries of origin grows into a crescendo. The double standards could not be more glaring. Both Bulgaria and
Romania are routinely portrayed as backward, mafia-ridden hell-holes that will infect the rest of the continent come
January 1. But is... |
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Published at 28-08-2006 from EUobserver
Julian Popov
Corruption and institutional incompetence are making Bulgarians more and more suspicious of Bulgarian political
parties, parliament, government, the judicial system and the police.
The Bulgarian presidency alone was held in high regard, but with the latest revelations that president Georgi Parvanov
used to work for the Communist state security service, the... |
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23-08-2006 • News & Events
Germany is threatening to derail the planned entry of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU on January 1, forcing its
postponement for a year as fears grow over Europe's capacity to absorb new members.
Yesterday Horst Köhler, the German president, urged the two countries to overcome clear deficits in their judicial
systems and in the fight against corruption ahead of a...
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Published at 22-08-2006 from The Independent
The debate over east European immigration is degenerating into "hysteria", leading think-tanks have warned.
As Downing Street indicated that Tony Blair has yet to decide on whether to allow Romanians and Bulgarians free entry
into the UK when their countries join the European Union next year, experts warned yesterday that opponents were basing
their arguments on ignorance... |
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18-08-2006 • News & Events
Access to the UK jobs market should be restricted for migrant workers from Romania and Bulgaria if the two join the
European Union next year, according to some of Britain's biggest employer organisations.
Business leaders have previously welcomed the opportunity to overcome labour shortages and stem wage inflation by
hiring thousands of cheaper eastern European workers...
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09-08-2006 • News & Events
The European Commission adopted August 8 a Communication on "Developing a comprehensive and coherent EU strategy to
measure crime and criminal justice". The Communication contains an EU action Plan for the development of EU statistics
on crime and criminal justice over the period 2006 - 2010. The action plan outlines the stepwise approach, in
coordination with Member States...
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Published at 09-08-2006 from International Herald Tribune
When Saints Cyril and Methodius gave the Slavic world its first written script, their mission was to draw the Slavs
under the influence of Constantinople and away from Rome. A thousand or so years later, Cyrillic is heading west - this
time to a united Europe.
With Bulgaria scheduled to enter the European Union along with Romania on Jan. 1, Cyrillic is becoming the bloc's... |
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08-08-2006 • News & Events
Daniel Daianu is a Minister of Finance in the preparatory period before the opening of the negotiations for EU
membership of Romania, 1997-1998. He is Chairman of the Romanian Economic Society and President of the European
Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Daianu is Professor, Ph.D. at the Academy of Economic Studies in
Bucharest as well as a financial and economic...
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07-08-2006 • News & Events
Britain appears ready to set broad curbs on the number of immigrants entering the country as part of efforts to
tighten the system and fill skills gaps.
John Reid, home secretary, said yesterday that an independent committee would recommend an "optimum" level of
migration that would be "beneficial in terms of enhancing the economy of this country commensurate with our social...
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07-08-2006 • News & Events
SIPPING whisky for breakfast on his gilded throne, Tsar Kiro, the leader of Bulgaria's gypsy community, sees a
crime wave engulfing Britain and the rest of Europe when his country joins the European Union next year.
"Crime and corruption in Bulgaria are huge problems and once the borders open up the country will be exporting both to
the EU," predicted Kiro as an armed...
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03-08-2006 • News & Events
Romania is consigning a generation of HIV-infected teenagers to a life of persecution on the margins of an
unsympathetic society, a study shows.
The findings, by Human Rights Watch (HRW), will make uncomfortable reading for Romania, which is to join the EU next
year. The report details the problems endured by more than 7,200 Romanians aged 15 to 19 infected with HIV between...
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Published at 03-08-2006 from Зиуа
Corrupted policemen, prosecutors and judges established a system of clans who commit crimes without fearing the law in
Romania. Such mafia men doing whatever they please throughout the country except for Bucharest use all means to supply
the their own pockets and those of corrupted magistrates and politicians they get protection from. Some names of such
people reached... |
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01-08-2006 • News & Events
EU justice and home affairs commissioner Franco Frattini has praised Bulgaria its recent reform progress ahead of the
country's planned accession to the EU next year, but also told Sofia to step up the implementation of reforms.
"I am a bit more optimistic after my last visit here. I see concrete progress... Bulgaria is on the right track. Now
the key word is...
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31-07-2006 • News & Events
Portal EUROPE offers you a summary in English of the arguments of BAIT concerning the activities of the State
administration ministry with regards to the public procurements.
Opinion of the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies (BAIT) Concerning a Press-Conference on the Topic:
“Supply and Establishment of an E-Government Integration System” and the Answers of...
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27-07-2006 • News & Events
Corruption Eased in Transition Countries from 2002-2005, Reports World Bank.
*Bulgaria-specific survey information
HERE(http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTECAREGTOPANTCOR/Resources/BAAGREV20060208Bulgaria.pdf): *Romania-specific
survey information HERE(http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTECAREGTOPANTCOR/Resources/BAAGREV20060208Romania.pdf):
Greater openness in Romania...
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26-07-2006 • News & Events
It’s the Finance ministry’s responsibility, as the European Commission rebukes Bulgaria's strategic aims.
By Boriana Yotova, Mediapool July 26, 2006; translated by Portal EUROPE.
The European commission (EC) has rejected for re-writing the National strategic reference framework. This is one of
the basic documents with which Bulgaria offers its priorities for financing by...
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26-07-2006 • News & Events
Summary of the latest developments related to the activities of the Ministry of State Administration and
Administrative Reform in Bulgaria.
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The public procurement procedure for e-government should be suspended, this project will never be implemented and it
costs too much money – reads a special declaration announced...
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Published at 25-07-2006 from Портал Европа
A round table discussing capacities, challenges and recommendations for the work of the district and municipal
administration in Bulgaria with EU funds took place on Tuesday, 25 July 2006 at the Radisson Hotel in Sofia.
The discussion was based on the new UNDP expert survey “Updated Assessment of Municipal and District Capacity for
Participation in the Planning and... |
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24-07-2006 • News & Events
EESC’s Joint Consultative committee with Bulgaria: “enlargement is a win-win situation”.
The 14th EU-Bulgaria Joint Consultative Committee, chaired jointly by Dr Hristov for the Bulgarian ESC and Mr Malosse
for the EESC was held in Brussels on 18 July in order to accompany the lasts preparatory steps before accession. The
Committee also discussed chances and challenges of a...
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24-07-2006 • News & Events
UK media reports that the Home Office has drawn up a hit list of 45,000 "undesirable" Bulgarians (called by the
Independent Hungarians) and Romanians before these countries join the European Union next year, EUexpands reports.
“The secret "warnings index" of alleged criminals and possible security risks is intended to alert officials to the
identities of people who will be...
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20-07-2006 • News & Events
Interview Ambassador Philippe Beke for Portal Europe.bg.
How would you assess the level of preparations of Bulgaria for an EU-membership?
Since Bulgaria started the negotiations in the year 2000, many changes have occured in the society. Indeed, the acquis
communautaire, which is the equivalent of the European legislation, has profoundly changed the Bulgarian legislation....
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20-07-2006 • News & Events
The new EU instrument to govern EU financial assistance to candidate and potential candidate countries was formally
adopted on July 17. Based on a Commission proposal, the EU Council adopted a regulation establishing the Instrument for
Pre-accession Assistance, IPA. This follows a favourable opinion voted by the European Parliament on July 6.
The new financial instrument...
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20-07-2006 • News & Events
Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul has warned of a looming anti-west backlash among his country's citizens due to
the EU hesitation over Ankara's membership in the European club as well as the US approach in the Middle East.
In an interview with the Financial Times, published on Thursday (20 July), Mr Gul said negative sentiment towards
Europe and the US has started...
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20-07-2006 • News & Events
Bulgaria is proceeding “full steam ahead” with reforms ahead of a critical Brussels report on Sofia’s readiness
for EU membership, the country’s foreign minister has insisted.
Ivailo Kalfin has trailed “some promising results” as Bulgaria hands in final reports to the European commission
before the summer break.
On September 26 European enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn...
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19-07-2006 • News & Events
Commissioner Franco Frattini outlined his proposals today for tackling illegal immigration and fixing a list of safe
countries of asylum.
Commission vice-president Franco Frattini announced he would explore the possibility of presenting a special European
instrument to "punish those businessmen who accept, encourage or actively support black work." EUobserver adds that the...
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19-07-2006 • News & Events
Dutch court rejects ban of pedophile party.
A Dutch court has turned down a request to ban a political party with a paedophile agenda.
Judge HFM Hofhuis ruled that the Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity Party (PNVD) had the same right to exist as any
other political party.
The PNVD was formed by three paedophiles in May, prompting outrage in Dutch society, BBC reports.
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19-07-2006 • News & Events
Large EU member states have come under fire for holding regular meetings on immigration issues with little or no
public information about the agenda or outcome of the discussions.
The British House of Lords' EU committee has published a scathing report slamming the lack of transparency at the
meetings that have been taking place since 2003 and are attended by justice...
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