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03-04-2006 • News & Events
The Black Sea region faces serious political instability if membership of the European Union for Romania and Bulgaria
is delayed, according to the leader of the Socialist group in the European parliament.
Martin Schulz said a delay would unleash nationalism and populism in the two countries. "You have ultra-nationalists,
fascists and former communists in both these countries,"...
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03-04-2006 • News & Events
The European Commission is to recommend in a report in May that Romania and Bulgaria join the EU in January 2007 as
planned, according to German daily Die Welt.
The commission will urge both countries to make further reforms in order not to miss out on aid cash when joining the
bloc, the German paper reported referring to "high-ranking sources in the EU commission."...
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01-04-2006 • News & Events
By EUOBSERVER, Mark Beunderman
The Dutch government has proposed to fully open the Dutch labour market to workers from the new member states from 1
January - but parliamentary approval is uncertain.
The decision was announced on Friday (31 March) after a cabinet meeting.
According to the proposal of the Dutch government, the borders will only open on 1 January next...
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31-03-2006 • News & Events
EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn has said Bulgaria is in a "critical" phase in its preparations for EU accession.
"We are living critical days as regards Bulgaria's preparation for accession," the commissioner said on Thursday (30
March), according to press reports.
Mr Rehn announced he will give a "preliminary assessment" of Bulgaria and Romania’s readiness to enter...
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31-03-2006 • News & Events
Nicolas Sarkozy, a presidential hopeful in next year's French elections, has suggested the EU should become clear
about where its borders lie and what other types of partnerships it can offer to countries aspiring to join the club.
Several high-profile speakers at the congress of the centre-right European People's Party gathered in Rome on Thursday
(30 March) made comments...
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30-03-2006 • News & Events
The European Commission has warned Microsoft that its new operating system, Windows Vista, due out early next year,
might infringe EU competition rules and limit choice for consumers.
In a letter to the chief of the world's largest software company, Steve Balmer, EU competition commissioner Neelie
Kroes outlined the commission's concern over the coupling of certain programs...
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30-03-2006 • News & Events
The European Commission today tabled a proposal to allow the European Union budget to share the cost of market support
measures in the eggs and poultry sector.
Since the beginning of the recent avian flu crisis, consumption of poultry and eggs has fallen dramatically in some
Member States, leading to a sharp reduction in prices. The current regulations governing the eggs...
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29-03-2006 • News & Events
Portal Europe.bg
Your excellency, there was an announcement that the European Parliament can take the decision on the date for
Bulgaria’s accession to the EU before the European Commission’s monitoring report in May. Is this possible and what
would be the significance of such a decision?
The decision about a possible delay has to be taken by the member-states after a...
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29-03-2006 • News & Events
Portal Europe.bg
Your excellency, there was an announcement that the European Parliament can take the decision on the date for
Bulgaria’s accession to the EU before the European Commission’s monitoring report in May. Is this possible and what
would be the significance of such a decision?
The decision about a possible delay has to be taken by the member-states after a...
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29-03-2006 • News & Events
A brand new EU Civil Service Tribunal has held its first hearing in Luxembourg, with judges hoping to ease some of the
workload coming from EU institution workers appealing to the courts to dissolve office spats with their employer.
Mr Falcione, an Italian-born principal administrator at the EU anti-fraud office (OLAF), on Tuesday (28 March) started
procedures against his...
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29-03-2006 • News & Events
More than one million people are estimated to have protested across France on Tuesday against the government's youth
employment laws.
Fighting broke out as protesters gathered in Paris, and missiles were hurled at police as they moved into the crowds to
try to remove troublemakers.
Tear gas and water cannon were used to disperse the protesters, and by late evening just a...
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29-03-2006 • News & Events
"I want to reassure you that if the Commission judges, on the basis of its monitoring, that either Bulgaria or
Romania are manifestly unprepared for membership, I will not hesitate to recommend the use of the remedial tools,
including the clause allowing us to postpone accession by one year until 2008. I am convinced that the Honourable
Members of the Parliament will agree...
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23-03-2006 • News & Events
Bulgaria's interior minister, Rumen Petkov, readily admits that the country has a problem with organized crime. A
leading member of the country's Socialist Party, he can rattle off the statistics, along with what the government is
doing to try to solve the problem.
The question is whether these efforts will be enough to satisfy the European Union that Bulgaria will be ready...
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21-03-2006 • News & Events
Answering the growing interest and iformation demand by our foreign users, Portal EUROPE.BG offers a short summary of
the 'lobbying-gate' in English.
I.J.International Inc., registered on the Virgin Islands, has been awarded a public procurement contract for
consultants and lobbyists of the Ministry of Exterior. A total of two applications were submitted in response to the...
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18-03-2006 • News & Events
MR MICHAEL LEIGH – TELEPHONE INTERVIEW,
MARCH 16, 17h30 Bulgarian time
Interviewer: Ognian Boyadjiev, Portal Europe.bg
Hello, Mr. Leigh, thank you very much for giving this interview for Portal Europe.bg.
OK.
So, I have sent you some questions on the email. I would like to directly ask you the first question, about the
statement of Mrs. Czarnota.
So ask your...
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18-03-2006 • News & Events
Green member of the European parliament Els de Groen has submitted two written questions to the European commission
concerning the readiness of Bulgaria to join the EU. She reveals cases of corruption of the previous and present
governments.
Portal EUROPE highlights the original texts of her questions to the EC:
WRITTEN PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION TO THE COMMISSION
SUBJECT...
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18-03-2006 • News & Events
Before the final adoption of the financial framework 2007-2013, on 14 March the Ecofin Council adopted its conclusions
on the budget guidelines for 2007. It stressed that the budgetary procedure for 2007, to be presented by the European
Commission towards the end of April, would be marked by two important elements: the new Financial Perspective and the
forthcoming accession of...
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17-03-2006 • News & Events
EU workers are to be helped back into the job market thanks to a new European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF).
Made public on 1 March, this annual fund of up to €500 million could benefit a potential 50 000 workers in the EU,
especially in the regions and sectors hit by major changes in world trade patterns.
"No Member State, not even one of the biggest, can respond to...
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14-03-2006 • News & Events
A joint European energy policy and EU efforts to agree on a peacekeeping mission in Congo were at the center of talks in
Berlin between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Jacques Chirac.The ministerial meeting was the first
since Merkel took office in November as head of Germany's grand coalition government of Christian and Social Democrats.
The gathering was...
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14-03-2006 • News & Events
Europe is falling further behind the US and Asia in education, with Germany and France no longer among world leaders
in developing knowledge, according to a new report by the Paris-based economic institute, the OECD.
According to Andreas Schleicher, the author of the report, Europe's educational systems should "be made more flexible,
more effective and more easily accessible...
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10-03-2006 • News & Events
Portal EUROPE received from a source on February 21 the documentation of the public procurement procedure for
“Submitting consultancy and intermediation services, connected to speeding up the process of adhesion of Bulgaria to
the EU on January 1, 2007”.
The application deadline expired on February 18, 2006. (see the direct link to the Public Procurement Agency,
http://www.ao
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04-03-2006 • News & Events
BBC News reported: Several thousand Bulgarian nationalists have held a rally in Sofia demanding the resignation of the
government.
Parts of the city came to a standstill as supporters of the nationalist Ataka party marched through the streets
chanting anti-government slogans.
Ataka party leader Volen Siderov told the crowd that ethnic minorities such as Turks and Gypsies...
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01-03-2006 • News & Events
01.03.2006 - 17:33 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Bulgaria is hiring consultants to identify parliamentarians and opinion-makers in member
states where ratification of its EU accession treaty is seen as problematic, signalling nervousness about a possible
delay of its EU membership.
The Bulgarian Public Procurement Agency has closed a public tender for a...
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Published at 28-02-2006 from European Central Bank
Speech by Jean-Claude Trichet,
President of the European Central Bank,
Diplomatic Institute
Sofia, 27 February 2006.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am very honoured to be able to speak here today before such a distinguished audience. I would like to thank our
hosts for their kind invitation. I must say, I actually feel quite at home here at the Diplomatic Institute. I would
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28-02-2006 • News & Events
A new 15 million euro research project has been launched to investigate exposure to chemicals in food and the
environment and their connection with childhood cancer and immune disorders.
NewGeneris was launched on 1 February 2006 as a new European Integrated Research Project under the Community's 6th
Framework Research Programme (FP6). It brings together 25 institutions from...
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23-02-2006 • News & Events
The EU-25 disagree on the pros and cons of mass vaccination of commercial poultry. Vaccination might halt the spread
of H5N1 to poultry but could also lead to non-EU countries banning imports of European poultry products.
EU member states' veterinary experts met on 21 February 2006, to discuss whether commercial poultry should be
vaccinated against avian flu. France and the...
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22-02-2006 • News & Events
EU enlargement is pushing German ahead of French on the European language ladder, with non-indigenous languages such
as Russian and Turkish also on the rise, a new European Commission study has shown.
The number of German speakers and English speakers jumped 6 percent each between 2001 and 2005, hitting 14 percent and
38 percent respectively, while the rate of French speakers...
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22-02-2006 • News & Events
Technology that prevents rear-end collisions could eliminate 4,000 accidents per year across the EU if just 3% of cars
had it by 2010.
Technology that helps you stay in lane, or to overtake, could prevent 1,500 accidents per year if only 0.6% of cars
had it by 2010. And technology that wakens drowsy drivers could help prevent 30% of fatal motorway crashes and 9% of
all...
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21-02-2006 • News & Events
Point of View: 20 February 2006, Monday. By Mihaela Gherghisan EUexpands, Sofia News Agency
Romania and Bulgaria show confidence in the positive elements that the EU Commission report in May might stress
regarding their progress towards EU membership.
While in Varna last Saturday, Bulgaria Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev has expressed his optimism and noted the hard...
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18-02-2006 • News & Events
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - France and the Netherlands will take their enlargement-wary public opinion into account when
deciding on the option of a one-year delay on Romanian and Bulgarian accession, diplomats say.
European enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn warned last autumn that the European Commission would delay scheduled 2007
accession by one year if anti-corruption and...
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