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Published at 28-04-2006 from BBC
Romania and Bulgaria appear on track to join the European Union next year, although there are concerns over Bulgaria's
failure to tackle crime.
European enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn said his goal was that both countries should join by next January.
Mr Rehn is due to present a key report on whether the admission of the two countries should be delayed by a year in
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27-04-2006 • News & Events
Three weeks ahead of the Commission's scheduled 16 May progress reports, Bulgaria and Romania still have no reason to
rest assured of their EU accession in January 2007.
On 16 May, the Commission is scheduled to release its report on the accession progress of candidates Bulgaria and
Romania. According to the previously agreed schedule, the two countries may conclude their...
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27-04-2006 • News & Events
Statement of Elmar Brok MEP for the EPP
26/04/2006, Brussels
The EPP members of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok, Chairman of the AFET Committee in the European Parliament,
stresses the right of control of the European Parliament. The question we put to the European Commission today,
concerning the EU accession of Bulgaria and Romania was supported by all other...
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27-04-2006 • News & Events
Bulgaria was yesterday warned by the European Commission to improve its approach to fighting organised crime, as the
clock ticks down on its bid to join the European Union next year, The Financial Times reported April 27.
Olli Rehn, EU enlargement commissioner, said there had been "very few investigations and prosecutions" of criminal
gangs, and said there were "ambiguities"...
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27-04-2006 • News & Events
Portal EUROPE offers to the attention of its readers the full texts of the original reports made within the February
peer-review – in English and in Bulgarian – by the European Commission experts Susette Schuster and Klaus Jansen.
The reason for us to do so is the considerable media interest created today and yesterday around these reports.
The reports have been composed in...
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26-04-2006 • News & Events
Article 39 of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union provides that in the event of a
serious risk of a state being manifestly unprepared to meet the requirements of membership by 1 January 2007, the
Council may postpone the date of accession by one year. It is for the Commission to propose such a step for
consideration by the Council.
In the...
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26-04-2006 • News & Events
The Chairman of the Liberal group (ALDE) in the European Parliament said he was against Wednesday's discussion with
Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn on the progress that Bulgaria and Romania have made towards EU accession,
NOVINITE.COM reported.
Graham Watson said such action had "no substance", EUexpands reported.
The commissioner was not supposed to appear in front of the...
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26-04-2006 • News & Events
By Mark Beunderman EUOBSERVER
EU justice commissioner Franco Frattini has hinted that Bulgaria and Romania could enter the union on time in January
2007, but face continued Brussels monitoring on the implementation of justice reforms.
Mr Frattini heads the portfolio which has caused the most trouble for Sofia's and Bucharest's EU bid, with Brussels
officials frequently...
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26-04-2006 • News & Events
Hundreds of billions of euros could be saved for European taxpayers every year as a result of administrative
modernisation in the 25 EU Member States, outlined today in the European Commission’s eGovernment Action Plan.
Information and communication technology is the key to modernising government services: making them more efficient and
more responsive.
100% take-up of...
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25-04-2006 • News & Events
Around 56,000 Romanian and Bulgarian workers are likely to migrate to Britain next year, according to new research
from the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) published today (Tuesday).
The report will be launched at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London where Immigration Minister Tony McNulty will
speak.
ippr estimates that around 41,000 Romanians and 15,000...
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25-04-2006 • News & Events
Safeguard clauses would not mean that the Bulgarian government is not active enough, EU socialists believe
Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists vice-president in charge of EU enlargement issues, Jan Marinus
Wiersma of the Netherlands, in an interview for Portal EUROPE.
*I do not believe Romania is ahead of Bulgaria; they are at the same level right now....
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21-04-2006 • News & Events
By Matthew Brunwasser International Herald Tribune
SOFIA In sharp and uncompromising language, an internal European Union report says what EU officials are unable or
unwilling to say publicly: Bulgaria's strategy for judicial reform, the area of greatest EU concern less than nine
months before the Balkan state plans to join, is chaotic and out of touch with the principles of...
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20-04-2006 • News & Events
Confidential sources from the Parliament of Europe sent us a text that was yesterday on the desk of EU Enlargement
Commissioner Olli Rehn. The latter is to speak up in front of the Parliament of Europe in May 26. The questions belong
to members of the Foreign Affairs Committee and refer to some new versions on the post-accession years of Romania and
Bulgaria.
It is mainly...
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16-04-2006 • News & Events
Ireland is still uncertain whether to open its labour market for workers from Bulgaria and Romania if they join the
European Union (EU) in 2007, Sunday Business Post reported.
The EU will decide in May if the accession of Bulgaria and Romania will go ahead as planned next January. If the two
countries receive the go-ahead, the government will decide in the autumn if...
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16-04-2006 • News & Events
The newly elected president of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, Claudiu Secasiu, urged
the Intelligence Services to hand the files to his institution.
During a debate called "The reform: Between morals and politic," organized by the Pro Democracy Association, Secasiu
pointed out that the institution he leads totally depends on the Intelligence...
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16-04-2006 • News & Events
Bulgaria's Euro-integration Minister Meglena Kuneva called for more reforms and actual results in Bulgaria's judicial
system, Novinite.com reported.
There are many more things that could be done in the judiciary area by the end of April, which could help for a better
evaluation in the European Commission monitoring report, Kuneva argued.
Talking to private Darik radio...
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16-04-2006 • News & Events
A yawning pay gap exists between rich and poor countries in Europe, Irish Finfacts reports citing report published
this month by the Federation of European Employers (FedEE).
According to the Pay in Europe 2006 report, the top ten countries and territories in the European pay league are:
Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Germany, Guernsey (Channel...
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13-04-2006 • News & Events
"The date of Bulgaria's accession to the EU is important but the fulfillment of the membership criteria is more
important both for Bulgaria and for the European Commission," EU enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said Thursday 13
April in Sofia.
According to Novinite, Rehn continues to be concerned about issues related to the rule of law in Bulgaria.
The target date of...
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13-04-2006 • News & Events
1. Annual work programme for grants for which there exists a basic act in the
environment policy area and which are to be committed in 2006
2. General call for proposals without a basic act in the environment policy area
3. Annual work programme for direct grants in the environment policy area
awarded without call for proposals (“direct grant”)
4. Specific grant agreements...
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12-04-2006 • News & Events
Analysts say Italy will have to cope with weeks of political and economic uncertainty as Prime Minister Berlusconi
rejected a general election result. But the prospect of a US-style recount drama isn't likely in Italy.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has demanded a recount of thousands of disputed ballots in the last gamble of a
rollercoaster election in Italy. Voters this...
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08-04-2006 • News & Events
Interview with Mrs. Malinka Ristevska Jordanova, Chief of Cabinet for the Deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia Radmila
Sekerinska(http://www.sep.gov.mk/portal/eng/default.asp?id=11), heading the European
integration(http://www.sep.gov.mk/portal/eng/default.asp?id=213), Government of the Republic of Macedonia
(http://www.vlada.mk/english/index_en.htm)
Mrs. Jordanova, what...
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08-04-2006 • News & Events
The efforts made by Macedonia to become a EU member-state are not necessarily because of the financial aids, but
mainly for the sake of the future opportunities of the coutry, Mrs. Malinka Ristevska Jordanova said in an interview
for Portal EUROPE(http://www.europe.bg/htmls/page.php?category=290&id=4938). Mrs. Jordanova is the Chief of Cabinet for
the Deputy Prime Minister of...
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07-04-2006 • News & Events
A powerful bomb explosion outside an investigative reporter's flat in Sofia yesterday has highlighted the difficulties
bedevilling Bulgaria's bid to join the EU on time on January 1. Nobody was hurt in the attack, which was blamed on
underworld gangsters.
The prevalence of organised crime rings and the authorities' failure to make arrests in a spate of other bombings and...
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Published at 06-04-2006 from EurActiv
The Bulgarian government has reacted sharply to reproaches by the Commission of having made only limited progress on
the country's way to EU accession.
Background:
Addressing the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on 4 April 2006, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn found much
more positive words for reforms implemented in Romania than for progress made in Bulgaria.... |
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06-04-2006 • News & Events
The German cabinet approved treaties on the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union, thereby
initiating the ratification process in Germany.
On April 25, 2005 representatives of the EU members, Bulgaria, and Romania met in Luxembourg to sign treaties on the
accession of the latter two states to the European Union. The EU and candidate countries have to ratify...
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06-04-2006 • News & Events
UK interior minister Charles Clarke has indicated Britain may not open its labour market to workers from Bulgaria and
Romania directly after the two countries' planned entry to the EU in 2007.
During this week's visit to both countries, Mr Clarke confirmed full support for their EU membership and praised the
positive input of migrant workers from central and eastern Europe...
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05-04-2006 • News & Events
What the British Prime Minister and the Bulgarian President told the press after their official meeting in London on
April 4 – press release from Downing Street’s website.
Tony Blair:
Good afternoon everyone. I extend a very welcome here to Downing Street to the President of Bulgaria. Thank you,
Sir, for coming here.
I would like to say that we greatly admire the progress...
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05-04-2006 • News & Events
Ahead of the publication of the EU Commission’s progress report on the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU,
EuroCOP President Heinz Kiefer comments that although significant progress has been made, the areas of justice and law
enforcement will require a particular effort if both countries are to achieve EU standards by 2007.
While Romania will need to take stronger...
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04-04-2006 • News & Events
Portal EUROPE received the text of last night’s speech of Commissioner for Enlargement Mr. Olli Rehn at the EP
Foreign Affairs Committee, concerning his Preliminary Assessment about Bulgaria and Romania.
Here, we offer a full version of the text.
Mr President,
Honourable Members,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a great pleasure for me to address this session of the Foreign...
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04-04-2006 • News & Events
The European Commission could withhold EU cash to Romania and Bulgaria to push for further reform even after they
become members of the bloc, EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn has indicated.
The commissioner met members of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee on Monday evening (3 April), some
six weeks before a crucial commission report on the two...
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