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09-11-2009 • News & Events
Ryszard Czarnecki is a Polish MEP from the European Conservatives and Reformists. He was born in London, UK, in 1963.
Czarnecki is a Vice-Chairman of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Committee on
Budgetary Control, Committee on Transport and Tourism. Mr. Czarnecki graduated as a Master of History, University of
Wrocław. He worked as an...
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30-10-2009 • News & Events
South East Europe Ifri-LSE!
The research programme is focused on the region of South East Europe as understood by the European Union and the scope
of the research covers the academic disciplines of economics, political science, international relations and social
policy. It is sponsored by the Latsis Foundation.
South East Europe Ifri-LSE aims to develop policy knowledge and...
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22-10-2009 • News & Events
The President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek announced today in plenary that the 2009 Sakharov Prize for
Freedom of Thought will be granted to MEMORIAL, the EPP Group's candidate. The decision was taken this morning by
the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament.
"I am delighted that MEMORIAL has been awarded the prize, it is well deserved and will...
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08-10-2009 • News & Events
Today, during the online discussion organized by Europe Gateway as part of the Interacting with the European
Parliament Project, the Chair of the Committee on Regional Development in EP, Danuta Huebner commented on different
topics, related to the regional policy and the future of EU.
Answering a question about the future regional development commissioner with regard to...
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07-10-2009 • News & Events
EUROPE Gateway invites all its readers from Bulgaria and Europe to participate in an online discussion with Polish MEP
Danuta Hübner (EPP), chair of the Regional Development Committee of the European Parliament and former European
Commissioner of Regional Development
The chat will last 30 minutes and the working language of the discussion is English. The discussion is...
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06-10-2009 • News & Events
„Our nominee for European Commissioner is Rumiana Zheleva and we are now going through a lot of talks because
receiving such a priority portfolio requires the consent of the other European states", Prime Minister Boiko Borisov
said in Kavarna.
He added that next week he will have a meeting with French President Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi for...
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03-10-2009 • News & Events
"We are writing European history together" said EP President Jerzy Buzek after Ireland voted YES to the Lisbon treaty
on Friday (2 October). Irish voters supported the treaty by a decisive 67.1% in favour with 32.9% against it. The large
swing to the yes camp has been attributed in large part due to the worsening economic situation across the Republic in
the last year. Overall...
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30-09-2009 • News & Events
In the EUROPE Gateway online discussion, the German MEP Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP), former president of the
European Parliament said: "Turkish membership is one thing, membership of countries, for instance on the Balkans, is
another question. Before any enlargement we need the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty." He confirmed that the position
of the governing Christian...
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29-09-2009 • News & Events
The president of the National Audit Office Prof. Valeri Dimitrov presented the audit opinion from and the opinion for
certification of the 2008 Annual Financial Report of the Council of Ministers to Prime minister Boiko Borisov. Bulgarian
National Audit Office refused the certification of the 2008 Report of the Council of Ministers.
In its opinion for the 2008 Annual...
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28-09-2009 • News & Events
EUROPE Gateway invites all its readers from Bulgaria and Europe to participate in an online discussion with German MEP
Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP), former president of the European Parliament. The topic of the discussion is "The
Position of Germany in the European Union after the National Parliamentary Elections".
The online discussion is planned for September 30,...
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26-09-2009 • News & Events
The World Bank finds serious shortcomings in the way in which state fees are formed in Bulgaria. A report by bank
experts shows that the policy of forming those fees is uncoordinated, inconsistent and nan-transparent, BNR reported.
In the period between 2005 and 2008 fees in Bulgaria have risen by 60 percent on the average. According to Bulgarian
law, they should cover the...
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25-09-2009 • News & Events
The whole Information System for Management and Monitoring (ISMM) of EU funding has to start working before October
10, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Simeon Dyankov said, cited by Mediapool.
All notes for the operation of the system will be covered before October, 10 and ISMM will be tested.
So far most of the old data for the implementation of the...
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24-09-2009 • News & Events
A legal conference on the topic of "European Legislation and Practices in Support of Good Governance Decisions"
started in Sofia. Organizer of the event is the Bulgarian Association for European Law (BAEL) and leading participants
are Deputy President of European Parliament Dianna Wallis and Bulgarian judge in the European Court of Justice and
chair of BAEL, Alexander...
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18-09-2009 • News & Events
"The name of the next Bulgarian Commissioner is clear and it has been approved by the President of the European
Commission", Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said late Thursday evening in Brussels.
"We always announce the names after they are nominated by the party", Borisov explained but avoided giving any
details, "Dnevnik" online reported. The main contender for the position... |
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16-09-2009 • News & Events
Minister of Finance Simeon Dyankov announced at a press-conference after the session of the Council of Ministers, that
the government reviewed a number of short-term measures for reviving Bulgarian economy, BNR reported.
The agenda also included all 32 measures, approved by the National Council for Trilateral Cooperation. The short-term
anti-crisis measures amount to 82 and...
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14-09-2009 • News & Events
„The political dimensions of the election of a new European Commission by the EP.”
This is the topic of a forthcoming online-discussion on Europe Gateway with leading political analyst Piotr Maciej
Kaczynski, research fellow at the Center for European Political Studies CEPS.
The chat on http://chat.europe.bg(http://chat.europe.bg/?lang=en) is scheduled for...
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11-09-2009 • News & Events
Europe Gateway, together with the European Institute Foundation and the Center for Policy Modernization Foundation,
are presenting a set of new analyses and commentaries, focusing on different topics, which are at the European agenda in
this new political season.
The analytical texts are published in the "Analyses" section of the interactive website
http://parliament.europe.bg
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10-09-2009 • News & Events
"I welcome the strong words which which Prime Minister Boiko Borisov expressed his intention to fight corruption and
to show zero tolerance in state authorities in Bulgaria at all levels", the President of the European Commission Jose
Manuel Barroso said in a joint press conference in Brussels with the Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov, Focus Agency
reports.
added that by...
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09-09-2009 • News & Events
Prime Minister Boiko Borisov will make his first working visit in Brussels heading a Bulgarian delegation today and
tomorrow, News.bg reports.
In the afternoon he will meet with European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) Director Franz-Hermann Bruner in the building of
the Permanent Representation of Bulgaria in Brussels.
The working agenda of Prime Minister Borisov includes...
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07-09-2009 • News & Events
19 million euros of SAPARD funding for Bulgaria have been unblocked. The news came from the Commissioner for
Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel, cited by Focus Agency. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Finance Simeon Dyankov who made the announcement said, that the news had come in literary minutes ago.
Dyankov explained that the total of 109...
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02-09-2009 • News & Events
"A group of European Union member states insists on more serious sanctions regarding the Cooperation and Verification
Mechanism in the field of justice and home affairs for Bulgaria and Romania, despite the fact that the last report
covers a period from the term of the previous government", the Minister of Foreign Affairs Rumiana Jeleva said at a
press conference in the...
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31-08-2009 • News & Events
The European Parliament in Strasbourg will hold 4 weekly Sessions this Autumn. This autumn sees the first "term" for
newly elected MEPs with 6 plenary parliamentary sessions being held between now and Christmas, European Parliament`s
Press Centre reported.
MEPs will also vote on the candidacy of Commission President Barroso as well as approving the entire new Commission....
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21-08-2009 • News & Events
On 23 August Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania commemorate the 20th anniversary of The Baltic Way. On that day in 1989
the people of the three occupied Baltic States joined hands in an unprecedented action - a 600 km-long human chain from
Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius - demanding recognition of secret clauses in the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 and the
re-establishment of the...
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07-08-2009 • News & Events
Iceland benefits from having it‘s own seat at the negotiating table instead of being a member of the EU block,
having to adopt the common policy instead of pursuing the country‘s own interest, Birgir T. Petursson, partner at
GHP Legal in Reykjavik, says in an interview for Europe Gateway.
Birgir T. Petursson is an Attorney at Law, a partner at GHP Legal in...
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07-08-2009 • News & Events
The government will request a one-year extension of the deadline for using the ISPA pre-accession programme funding,
the Deputy Minister of Regional Development Liliana Pavlova said, cited by Dnevnik Daily.
The Programme expires in the end of 2010 but so far only 38 percent of the funds have been used. The data from the
Ministry of Finance shows that the total budget of...
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27-07-2009 • News & Events
The leader of The Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the EP Martin Schulz today issued a
warning on the newly-sworn government of Bulgaria not to spare any effort in preserving and further promoting the social
achievements for the citizens of the country
Said Mr. Schulz: "The Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the...
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14-07-2009 • News & Events
The oldest member of parliament, Andrey Pantev from the parliamentary group of Coalition for Bulgaria chaired the
inaugural session of the newly elected National Assembly. In the beginning of the session the electronic system of the
parliament registered 228 from the total of 240 MPs.
The MPs took an oath of allegiance in the presence of President Georgi Parvanov, the leader...
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10-07-2009 • News & Events
Markus Ferber MEP congratulated the GERB leader Boyko Borissov on the landslide victory of GERB in last Sundays
elections in Bulgaria. He wished the future Prime Minister and the new Bulgarian government a lot of success in the
upcoming years.
He said: "The political family of the EPP respects the strong will of Bulgarians to see changes in their home country,
as expressed...
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10-07-2009 • News & Events
Meglena Kuneva will continue to be EU commissioner for consumer protection. "This decision is above all ambitions and
above any personal agenda" she said, quoted by Focus Agency.
"The European commission will do everything in its powers to support Boiko Borisov and his government", she added.
During her talks with Barroso he indicated that he wanted to see Bulgaria as a...
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09-07-2009 • News & Events
The European Commission interim report on the progress of Bulgaria in the area of justice and home affairs will be
issued on July 22 and will not contain recommendations for safeguard clauses. Another report is due in the autumn in
regard with EU funding management, BNR reported.
The latest report will be released the same week when the make-up of the new Bulgarian...
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