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24-07-2008 • News & Events
"I work with facts only; we are working hard in order to reduce damages and funding at risk of being lost. I cannot
comment on Reuters claims until I receive the official report of the Commission. Therefore, I cannot give any comment or
forecast", Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Plugchieva stated referring to the news releases that the EC plans to deprive
Bulgaria of 500 mln...
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24-07-2008 • News & Events
The next reports of the Commission on Bulgaria will be published in January and in the summer next year, EC spokesman
Mark Gray announced. The report expected in the beginning of next year will be intermediate; EC's regular report on
the implementation of the cooperation and monitoring mechanisms in the field of home affairs and justice, may be
expected in the end of June...
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24-07-2008 • News & Events
The first general remarks of the Bulgarian authorities on the reports, released by the European Commission on the
situation in Bulgaria - regarding the management of EU funds and on the progress in the area of Justice and Home Affairs
(under the Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification, approved for Bulgaria and Romania in December 2006).
This documents under the form of...
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23-07-2008 • News & Events
Why does the Commission report on progress in Bulgaria in judiciary reform, the fight against corruption and organised
crime?
Upon accession of Bulgaria on 1 January 2007, certain weaknesses remained in the areas of judicial reform, the fight
against corruption and organised crime that could prevent an effective application of EU-laws, policies and programmes
and for Bulgarians...
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23-07-2008 • News & Events
By EurActiv. Leaks to the press by the Commission of a monitoring report on Bulgaria's performance in the EU have
badly tarnished the country's international image, lamented Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Ivaylo Kalfin,
expressing his hope that the final report will be less damaging.
Kalfin, who is also the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs expressed...
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21-07-2008 • News & Events
By Kerin Hope in Athens and Theodor Troev in Sofia, Financial Times
Bulgaria risks losing billions of euros in European Union aid to modernise roads, railways and ports as a result of
corruption and mismanagement of pre-accession funding under its Socialist-led coalition government.
The Union's poorest member state is already set to lose at least €600m (£477m,...
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18-07-2008 • News & Events
By Paul Taylor
BRUSSELS, July 18 (Reuters) - The European Commission will issue a withering indictment next week of high-level
corruption, maladministration and failures in the handling of European Union funds in new member state Bulgaria,
according to a draft.
The report on the management of EU funds in the most recent and poorest newcomer, seen by Reuters on Friday, said:...
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18-07-2008 • News & Events
The European Commission may express reservations over Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen free-travel zone and
the Eurozone because of the endemic corruption in the country, France-Presse reports quoting diplomatic sources.
EC's draft report, which may still be amended until its approval on Wednesday, highlights the "numerous faults" of
the Bulgarian judicial...
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17-07-2008 • News & Events
EC is going to deprive two Bulgarian agencies of their rights to manage funds under the European PHARE Program,
according to the special correspondent of the Bulgaria National Television (BNT)in Brussels. This is written in the
report on Bulgaria's EU funds management which BNT has at its disposal.
These are the PHARE Executive Agency at the Ministry of Regional...
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17-07-2008 • News & Events
"I work with facts only; we are working hard in order to reduce damages and funding at risk of being lost. I cannot
comment on Reuters claims until I receive the official report of the Commission. Therefore, I cannot give any comment or
forecast", Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Plugchieva stated referring to the news releases that the EC plans to deprive
Bulgaria of 500 mln...
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16-07-2008 • News & Events
Russia has showed interest if Bulgaria plans to participate in the American anti-rocket defense system in Eastern
Europe, a high-level diplomat in Moscow announced on BNT.
Recently, the Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev warned that Russia will react adequately if the US deploy anti-rocket
defense equipment in Eastern Europe.
The issue of possible Bulgarian involvement...
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16-07-2008 • News & Events
By Dnevnik daily. There are influential forces in the Bulgarian government and state authorities which have no
interest in punishing anyone related to the circle around Liudmil Stoikov, currently under investigation for projects
fraudulently funded with 6.5 mln euro from SAPARD, Franz-Hermann Brüner, director of the EU's anti-fraud office
OLAF, says in an official...
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15-07-2008 • News & Events
The Commission has issued today its opinion on the project of Slovenské Elektrárne to complete Units 3 and
4 of Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant in the Slovak Republic, according to the requirements of articles 41 to 44 of the
Euratom Treaty. Those requirements state that any new investment related to nuclear activities has to be communicated to
the Commission which...
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14-07-2008 • News & Events
By EUOBSERVER. The European Commission has praised EU member states for improving their implementation of the
bloc's internal market laws, with Bulgaria emerging as best pupil and the Czech Republic and Portugal as
implementation laggards. Brussels said that a goal set by EU leaders last year of not having more than one percent of EU
laws not implemented has now been...
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10-07-2008 • News & Events
A commentary by Juliana Nikolova, Director of the European Institute, published in Dnevnik Daily.
According to the Director of the European Institute, the situation with the money coming to Bulgaria from EU funds is
beginning to resemble the current oil market situation - the news are becoming more and more negative.
"With the risk to repeat clichés that everybody is...
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09-07-2008 • News & Events
By Financial Times. For years Bulgaria has been a source of cheap labour for western Europe. Now the tables have been
turned on the Black Sea state, as it finds itself facing an acute shortage of workers and turning to far-reaching
measures to make up the shortfall: inviting Vietnamese to fill jobs in manufacturing and construction.
"Bulgaria employed Vietnamese workers...
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08-07-2008 • News & Events
By Ilian Vassilev, Financial times. After a year and a half of European Union membership, Bulgaria is undergoing a
reality check. While the country is enjoying strong economic growth, there is growing popular frustration over a wide
gap with "old" Europe in standards of living and social protection.
Consumer protests against fuel prices have so far been muted in Bulgaria....
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03-07-2008 • News & Events
After relevant coordination procedure with the Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, Atanas Kunchev was elected
as the new Executive Director of the Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture. Until now Kunchev has been Deputy Minister of
Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food announced.
Atanas Kunchev will be publicly presented by Valeri Tsvetanov, Minister of Agriculture...
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03-07-2008 • News & Events
The Action Plan with regards to SAPARD measures suspended by the European Commission will be ready until 10 July, the
government press service announced.
A working group, headed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, is in charge of its drawing up and SAPARD Agency must
launch its immediate implementation. This is written in the Progress Report on EU funds absorption...
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01-07-2008 • News & Events
On the occasion of the European Parliament voting on "the third energy package" which will be held during the July
plenary session in Strassbourg, the EP Information Office in Sofia organizes a conference on the European energy policy
under the heading "Towards common European energy policy".
The event will take place at 9.30 a.m on 4 July 2008. in Serdika Hall of Sheraton...
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01-07-2008 • News & Events
By AFP, published in EUbusiness. Fast asleep in the forests of the Rhodope mountains, this former miners' town,
like a lot of other near-forgotten places in Bulgaria, is hoping for an EU financial kiss to waken from its slumber and
start pulling in the tourists.
"We've got ancient Thracian sanctuaries, mineral water springs, a mine that's been turned into a...
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01-07-2008 • News & Events
By Juliana Nikolova, Director of the European Institute.
A public hotline was opened to Deputy PM Plugtschieva’s office on June 23, the Government Information Service
announced. On the sixtieth day since her appointment in charge of the EU Funds absorption, she committed herself to
responding to citizens’ complaints, concerns and questions, related to the EU Funds...
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01-07-2008 • News & Events
Management of urban change - measuring & performing is the key topic of the forthcoming event.
The International Urban Development Association INTA http://www.inta-aivn.org offers City professionals (both
decision makers and city managers) the opportunity to improve their practical knowledge and competence in the
development, implementation and monitoring of urban development....
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27-06-2008 • News & Events
Bulgaria should restrain from payments under measure „Development and diversification of economic activities"
and measure „Investments in agricultural holdings". This is written in a letter of Jean-Luc Demarty, Director
General of EC Directorate-General for Agriculture, addressed to the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Focus
Agency announced.
The...
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18-06-2008 • News & Events
Finally, we have received the long-awaited results of the Lisbon Treaty. In my opinion, and probably I share this
opinion with many others, we all knew long in advance that the Reform Treaty would be rejected. This is not because I
and people of the same opinion knew that the Irish people would never accept the terms of the Treaty or believed that it
was in Ireland's best...
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16-06-2008 • News & Events
"The report to the head of the EC Enlargement Directorate Michael Lee has already been sent to Brussels", the Deputy
Prime Minister announced cited by Darik. Plugchieva emphasized that she is waiting for an impartial assessment from the
European Commission.
"EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn is personally engaged in getting acquainted with the report and giving comments...
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16-06-2008 • News & Events
The European Commission's Report in relation to the mechanisms for collaboration and control of internal affairs
and justice system shall be published on July 23, the Bulgarian National Radio announced.
European Commission spokesperson Mark Gray confirmed that the EC would present its monitoring reports on Bulgaria and
Romania on July 23. The statement was made at a...
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13-06-2008 • News & Events
By Stefan Wagstyl, Financial times
Svetlana Stoeva pulls on her cigarette as she recalls the moment she learnt that her husband was dead - shot on his
way to a buy a newspaper in a busy street in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. "I saw the news on television. The words came
up on the ticker at the bottom of the screen. I was shocked," she says, recalling the day in April when...
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13-06-2008 • News & Events
The Cabinet adopted amendments to Government Decree No.131/2005 which specifies the role and functions of the National
Authorizing Officer (NAO) and its coactivity with the senior programme officer/sectoral authorizing officer in respect
of aid coordination granted to Bulgaria under pre-accession financial instruments PHARE and ISPA. The amendments provide
that NAO who is in...
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12-06-2008 • News & Events
The Bulgarian government sent to Brussels a modest and inaccurate report on the results of the fight against organised
crime and corruption. Among the listed dozen of "significant results" only one has been specified - "the defeat of a
criminal structure in Burgas led by Dimitar Jeliazkov, a.k.a. Mitio Ochite (Mitio the Eyes)".
The expected on 16 July critical report of the...
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