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  • Editorial Comment: Bulgaria's shame 20 Jul 2008 18:30 GMT
    ... | Last updated: July 20 2008 19:01 Bulgaria’s poor record in fighting organised crime and ... a suspected criminal-business group of defrauding the European Union of pre-accession funds, and accused authorities of ... to revision before they are presented to EU foreign ministers this week. But the Commission must ...

  • Scathing EU report on Bulgarian corruption has implications for property market 20 Jul 2008 18:15 GMT
    ... From: www.propertywire.com 20 July 2008 The withering European Commission report on corruption and maladminstration in Bulgaria which has resulted in the freezing of ... go ahead as planned. Bulgaria joined the EU just 18 months ago and great promises about the future of ...

  • Beggars spark new debate 20 Jul 2008 16:50 GMT
    ... pockets. The beggars, many from Romania and Bulgaria, wander in groups or settle on street ... If they come from countries within the EU, for example, they don't need visas at all. "Those who ...

  • Albania - The Last Property Hotspot to be discovered in Europe. 20 Jul 2008 15:51 GMT
    ... on infrastructure, development, investment and integrations within EU and NATO as well as opened to foreign investment and free market ... prices in Europe, compare to Croatia, Montenegro, Bulgaria or Greece; prices are approximately 70% more ...

  • How a Bulgarian valley went from guns to roses 20 Jul 2008 13:36 GMT
    ... How a Bulgarian valley went from guns to roses July ... Bulgaria has blossomed in recent years as European Union cash and a global boom in organic ... the one here,” said Toon Streppel, a European Parliament official in Bulgaria. ...

  • Bulgarian M3 Communications College Becomes Affiliate of Manhattan Institute of Management 20 Jul 2008 09:14 GMT
    ... M3 Communications College, the only licensed Bulgarian center for professional marketing and PR education, ... to issue MBA degrees recognized in the European Union. Through the affiliation contract M3 Communications College joins ...

  • Kremikovtzi: hung out to dry 20 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT
    ... it looks like the situation at Kremikovtzi, Bulgaria’s largest steel mill, could not get worse, ... record low, reports in Bulgarian media suggest. European Commission (EC) observers were sent to Sofia in ... the debts in 1999 is illegal under European Union rules. Unless there was some urgent investment made ...

  • BELGIUM IN BULGARIA: Business and poetry in the mind of a Belgian diplomat 20 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT
    ... BELGIUM IN BULGARIA: Business and poetry in the mind of ... arguing the need for enlargement of the European Union in the period 2000 to 2003, which ... want to be a member of the EU or…what do you want?” The trend has changed, ...

  • BELGIUM IN BULGARIA: Trade co-operation 20 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT
    ... to promote Belgian products and services in Bulgaria. This is seen through the trade representation’s ... Purvanov, Belgium and Bulgaria, partners in the European Union, confirmed their readiness to co-operate in business-related as ...

  • BELGIUM IN BULGARIA: History repeated 20 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT
    ... Koinova Whether it was because in 1894 then-Bulgarian prime minister Konstantin Stoilov vowed to turn ... Bulgaria, prior to its accession to the European Union, remained an untested risk-prone ground that small ... among the most efficient mechanisms in the EU to hedge export loans and investments in Bulgaria. ...

  • Criminal network' 20 Jul 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... European anti-fraud office says Bulgaria not interested in busting the guilty A ... in the criminal gangs who has embezzled EU funds”. For the Bulgarian Government to regain the trust of Olaf ...

  • Audit the roads, audit the traffic 20 Jul 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... DRIVE ME UP A WALL: Tunnels on Bulgarian highways (top photo) are often shut down ... to fix that, a two-day seminar on European Union road transport policy and road infrastructure safety, ... of setting up unified rules throughout the EU; improving the exchange of information with other ...

  • Kosovo: The tale of the fledgling and the hawks 20 Jul 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... the initial clamour of approval from some European Union states and other capitals too far from ... billion euro in assistance for Kosovo. The EU and its member countries pledged a total of ... million euro, Slovenia 500 000 euro and Bulgaria 500 000 euro. Turkey committed to donate ...

  • Bulgaria risking European sanctions 20 Jul 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... The European Commission is to decide on Wednesday whether to ... Wednesday whether to block massive sanctions on Bulgaria for failing to tackle corruption. According to ... block hundreds of millions of euros in EU funds. According to the Euranet programme (produced by 15 ...

  • Editorial: African farmers deserve help 19 Jul 2008 23:36 GMT
    ... The European Commission is quite right to want to give ... If lawyers do decide the payment contravenes EU rules, then the rules must be changed. The law was made ... withholding of precisely the same amount from Bulgaria because the government had failed to attack ...

  • "Iron Megi": Bulgaria's EUR 7 B from EU Structure Funds Are Not at Risk 19 Jul 2008 17:26 GMT
    ... Bulgaria's Deputy PM Plugchieva, aka "Iron Megi", explained ... night the country's structure funds from the EU were not threatened by sanctions. Photo by Nadya Kotseva (Sofia ...

  • Sofia Mayor: Govt Is More Guilty than President for Blocked EU Funds 19 Jul 2008 17:26 GMT
    ... Is More Guilty than President for Blocked EU Funds The Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov blamed the government more than ... blocked funds meant lack of trust in Bulgaria on part of the EU. The GERB ...

  • EU Calls on Germany to Explain East European Job Block 19 Jul 2008 16:31 GMT
    ... EU Calls on Germany to Explain East European Job Block "I am ... April, 2009. Cheap workers from Romania and Bulgaria will continue to be excluded until the ...

  • Barroso admits he wants to be EU commission president for a second time 19 Jul 2008 15:26 GMT
    ... week all eyes will be on the EU's two newest states, Bulgaria and Romania, as the European Commission is ... 'No' triggers blame-game and finger-pointing in EU ECB will not change policy to help Ireland, ...

  • Former Tsar's Party Sets up Election Campaign Committee 19 Jul 2008 15:21 GMT
    ... Stability and Progress, which is chaired by Bulgaria's former tsar and for PM Simeon Saxe-Coburg, ... Elections and Elections for Members of the European Parliament, which are supposed to take place in ... for clean business, clean relations with the EU, clean life", Velchev explained. In his words, the disadvantages ...

  • Botched Rescue of Bulgarian Football Boss Exposes Mafia's Grip 19 Jul 2008 15:21 GMT
    ... Botched Rescue of Bulgarian Football Boss Exposes Mafia's Grip From The ... rampant organised crime days before a damning EU report is to be released. Even as the 47-year-old boss of Litex ... nothing to help its reputation as the European Commission prepares to announce that it will suspend ...

  • So you bought a house abroad and thought you were going to make a fortune? Oh dear... 19 Jul 2008 13:46 GMT
    ... that while anyone who purchased in the EU might be an easy target for Revenue, those who bought in the ... his commitments. "The worst offenders are in Bulgaria," Mr McGrath revealed, where investors are asked ...

  • Bulgaria risks losing EU funds 19 Jul 2008 13:45 GMT
    ... before they are formally endorsed by the European Commission next Wednesday. But the leaked document paints ... of new anti-corruption laws," she said. "Since Bulgaria joined the EU there was no significant change. We believe that the persistent problems ...

  • EU Affairs Minister: EC Reports Are like Traffic Police Inspections 19 Jul 2008 12:51 GMT
    ... EU Affairs Minister: EC Reports Are like Traffic Police Inspections Bulgaria's EU Affairs Minister Grancharova promised the Bulgarians ... compared Saturday the monitoring reports of the European Commission to an inspection of one's car by ...

  • "Iron Megi": Bulgaria's EUR 7 B from EU Structure Funds Not at Risk 19 Jul 2008 11:48 GMT
    ... Bulgaria's Deputy PM Plugchieva, aka "Iron Megi", explained ... night the country's structure funds from the EU were not threatened by sanctions. Photo by Nadya Kotseva (Sofia ...


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