Bulgaria’s government does not intend to privatize the state postal services company “Bulgarian Posts EAD.” This has been declared in Parliament Friday by Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov who sought to refute accusations by the opposition with respect to alleged plans to privatize the state posts. Tsvetkov’s predecessor and current MP from the Socialist Party, Petar [...]
September 26, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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China will soon invest in airports, ports and container terminals to turn Bulgaria into its “door” for the import of Chinese goods in Europe, and will even consider building a nuclear plant in the Balkan country. This has been announced by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov after he met with his Chinese counterpart, Wen Jiabao [...]
September 26, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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Turkey’s bid to join the European Union is becoming complicated by a number of factors, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told students at Columbia University in New York. The European Commission supports the enlargement of the Union but only if all member states meet all criteria. At the same time, there is growing concern [...]
September 22, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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The European Commission has requested that the Prosecutor’s Office in Bulgaria conduct checks of all land swaps in the countr. This request was received by Sofia Regional Prosecutor’s Office, whose chief prosecutor Alexander Nalbantov confirmed the information for 24 Chasa daily. The EU Commission is also keeping track of two files on Bulgarian land swaps. [...]
September 22, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva has met with the 95 Bulgarian firefighters who took part in the extinguishing of the forest fires in Russia over the summer. “I am very proud that I am the EU Commissioner who represents you. I am even more proud that Bulgarians are so professional,” Georgieva told the firefighters. According to [...]
September 22, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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“Our Union is for the people. Internal order cannot become grounds for violating human rights based on ethnicity. I am also impressed by the reaction of the European Parliament, the debate in France because a nation is as great as are its citizens. Remember Voltaire who said: “I do not agree with you, but am [...]
September 22, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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Bulgarian Roma and citizens, who support them, are to stage a rally in front of the French Embassy in Sofia in protest against France‘s controversial deportation of Roma. The protesters will hand a letter to the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, which demands that France should immediately suspend its expulsion policy, targeting people because of their [...]
September 22, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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Legendary German football player and manager Lothar Matthaeus is the new coach of the Bulgarian national team. This has been announced by Borislav Mihaylov, head of the Bulgarian Football Union, after the meeting of the Union’s executive committee Tuesday afternoon. The contract of Matthaeus with the Bulgarian national football team will be for two years [...]
September 22, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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Bulgaria’s National Film Center has put forth “Eastern Plays” as the Bulgarian nomination for the US Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. “Eastern Plays“, which is the debut feature film of director Kamen Kalev, has been chosen as the Bulgarian competitor for an Oscar for international film after it achieved a sweeping success not [...]
September 22, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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Wednesday, September 22, is a national holiday as people across Bulgaria are celebrating the 102nd year since the country’s formal declaration of independence from the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Even though the third Bulgarian state was technically restored in 1878, for the first 30 years of its existence it was a tributary principality to Ottoman Turkey, [...]
September 22, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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