Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has officially opened the National “SIRENE Bureau,” which will consist of 30,000 employees of the ministry. SIRENE (which means “cheese” in Bulgarian) stands for Supplementary Information Request at the National Entry out outlines the main task of the “SIRENE Bureaux,” established in all Schengen States, which is the exchange of [...]
October 23, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized |
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The European Commission has decided to give green light to controversial proposals to introduce a tax levied at the EU level, as EU finance ministers decided to tighten regulation over hedge funds Tuesday in Brussels. The EC decision stated the EU executive is proposing the gradual introduction of “one or several sources of funding, such [...]
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The European Commission has officially canceled its intention to start an infringement procedure against France over Roma expulsion, after the latter agreed to amend its legislation in order to comply with the EU law. “Following the official commitments made by France last Friday, the European Commission will now, for the time being, not pursue the [...]
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German Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy have put forth amendments of the Lisbon Treaty in order to get EU member states to avoid excessive budget deficits. Sarkozy and Merkel met Monday in the French resort of Deauville, where they went for a tripartite France-Germany-Russia summit together with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. At a joint [...]
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Novinite.com exclusive interview with Jurgen Roth, a top German investigative journalist and a thorough analyst of organized crime and the mafia in the countries from Central and Eastern Europe. Author of bestsellers like The Red Bosses, The Grid of Terror, The Oligarch, Gangsters of the East, The Germany Clan and The New Bulgarian Demons, which [...]
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Bulgaria’s national football team has become 43rd in the world ranking of FIFA shortly after Lothar Matthaeus took over as head coach. Matthaeus led the Bulgarians to two wins – 0:1 over Wales in the Euro 2012 qualifications, and 2:0 over Saudi Arabia in a friendly. As a result, with 605 points, Bulgaria bounced off [...]
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At 4 am Sunday, October 31, Bulgaria will turn the clocks back one hour to winter daylight savings time until the last Sunday in March, 2011. The information was reported Thursday by the Bulgarian Institute for Measurements. As result the sunrise and the sunsets will come earlier. Currently, the sun rises around 7:30-7:40 am and [...]
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Joey DeMaio from heavy metal greats Manowar and ex AC/DC and Dio drummer Simon Wright will be among the guests at the unveiling of the world’s first monument to late legendary rock singer Ronnie James Dio, in Bulgaria’s Kavarna. The ceremony is to be held at 14.00 EET in Kavarna, which has turned into a center for [...]
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Yane Yanev, head of the conservative party RZS (“Order, Law, Justice”) has made new allegations that Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov was involved in murky activities. According to Yanev, firms close to Aleksei Petrov, the former secret agent of the Bulgarian State National Security Agency DANS who has been investigated for organized crime activities since February [...]
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Authors of hate speech will face up to four years imprisonment and a BGN 5,000 fine, according to the newly adopted amendments to the Bulgarian Penal Code. The penalty will apply to journalists and authors in the media and in electronic information systems, such as websites. The newly adopted amendments explain in details the forms [...]
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