Interview of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) and Novinite.bg with Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO of ICANN, author and high-tech entrepreneur. Beckstrom previously served as Director of the US National Cyber Security Center. Prior to that Beckstrom was Chairman and Chief Catalyst of TWIKI.NET, a company which supports TWiki, an open source wiki. He is co-author [...]
December 6, 2011 | Posted in
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The injury that Manchester United‘s Bulgarian forward Dimitar Berbatov picked up during his team’s unfortunate game against Crystal Palace on Wednesday is not as grave as initially believed, Sir Alex Ferguson has announced. “Berbatov’s injury isn’t serious,” Ferguson has said, as cited by the Red Devils’ official website. “He got injured the week before. We’ve [...]
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Bulgarian Christian Orthodox mark Monday the Day of Saint Sava or Sabbas. St. Sabbas was born in 439. He is a Cappadocian-Greek monk, priest and saint, who lived mainly in Palestine. He was the founder of several monasteries, most notably the one known as Mar Saba. In Bulgarian folklore Sava is the brother Saint Varvara, [...]
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22 tons of yellow cheese (kashkaval) past its sell-by date have been delivered to an incineration plant by the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BABH). Laboratory tests have confirmed that the dairy product is unfit for consumption due to the advanced stages of milk fat oxidation, according to BABH’s statement. The yellow cheese is owned by the [...]
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The Bulgarian Parliament will vote on second reading Wednesday and Thursday legislation relating to Bulgaria’s state budget for 2012. Prior to that, the Bulgarian government had agreed with trade unions not to up the retirement age before 2021, and had signed an agreement with representatives of farmers regarding much larger subsidies than those stipulated in [...]
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They insisted on a meeting with Borisov and his Deputy, Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, but did not get a positive response. Meanwhile, the demonstrators, represented by the National Grain Producers Association, were invited to meet with Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, but declined the invitation on the grounds he is not authorized to sign any decisions. [...]
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The Polish EU Presidency has stated Tuesday it backs the initiative of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to forge new rules to secure the financial stability of the EU. Poland, who is EU‘s rotational presiding member state until the end of 2012, will back all efforts to rescue the eurozone, said [...]
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The EU member states showing a better fiscal discipline should be motivated with bonuses, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov proposed during a meeting with his Danish counterpart. The block’s best performers in terms of fiscal stability could receive more EU funds during the next program period and could spend less on co-financing EU projects, the [...]
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Denmark firmly supports Bulgaria and Romania‘s Schengen bids and hopes that the two countries would join the agreement during its EU presidency, Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt has said. “Bulgaria and Romania have met the requirements for joining the Schengen Agreement; we should stimulate them by accepting them in Schengen. If someone has abided by the [...]
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The fact that some EU countries still impose restrictions on access to their labor market for Bulgarian citizens means only one thing: that these people will spend more time there working illegally. The conclusion is part of the “Bulgarian Labor Migration: Do Restrictions Make Sense” report of the Open Society Institute – Sofia published by [...]
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