The European Commission has come up with a neutral statement regarding the recent assault against Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Macedonia Ivan Petkov. The issue has to be resolved at a bilateral level, according to Peter Stano, spokesman of EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele. “If the case is criminal, we expect local authorities to investigate it, adhering to the rule of law,” Stano has stated, [...]
May 15, 2012 | Posted in
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The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) will file a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights over the death of a 15-year-old at a state-run childcare institution. The human rights NGO will sue the state over the death of a 15-year-old mentally disabled girl at an institution located in the northeastern village of Strazha. The girl died in 2006 [...]
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The vanishing of sentenced Bulgarian businessmen known as Galevi Brothers will have a negative effect on the EU‘s July monitoring report on Bulgaria, according to Bulgarian Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov. “Of course, there is no way that this event can be positively taken. The European Commission has repeatedly insisted that it wants to see criminals punished,” explained Tsvetanov. Controversial Dupnitsa businessmen Plamen Galev and Angel Hristov were convicted [...]
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Bulgarian EU commissioner Kristalina Georgieva is in her home country to take part Wednesday in festivities marking May 9, Europe Day. Together with President Rosen Pleveneliev, Georgieva will take part in the opening of a public debate ”Bulgaria – Five Years in the EU. Let’s Transfer European Ideas to the University. Is the European Project Exhausted?”. The debate is organized in partnership with the youth [...]
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Bulgaria notified RAPEX, a European rapid alert system for dangerous products, a total of 162 times in 2011, thus accounting for 10% of all EU notifications. The Balkan country is topped only by Spain (189 notifications, 12%). In 2011, for the first time since the start of the operation of the currentRAPEX system (in 2004), the total number [...]
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EU leaders will assemble on an emergency European Council May 23 to discuss measures to stimulate economic growth in the Union. This was revealed Tuesday byEuropean Council PresidentHerman Van Rompuy on his Twitter account. The announcement comes in the wake of a special statement byEuropean Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso calling for stepping up measures to create growth in the EU. In his address, Barroso recalled prior stimulus [...]
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Bulgaria is starting a process of decentralization, and it can make good use of Switzerland‘s know-how, according to President Rosen Plevneliev. Plevneliev welcomed in Sofia Thursday Hans Altherr, President of the Council of States of Switzerland, the smaller and upper house of the Swiss Federal Assembly, the Bulgarian Presidency press service reported. Plevneliev and Altherr have praised the excellent bilateral relations, stating [...]
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European Parliament President Martin Schulz has thrown his weight behindBulgarian Socialist Party leader and ex PM Sergey Stanishev for the permanent post of President of the Party of European Socialists. Schulz, who was also the leader of the European Socialists in the European Parliament before taking it over, had a guest lecture at Sofia University Thursday, organized by the Atlantic Club in Bulgaria and [...]
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The European Commission has approved a state aid scheme for the participation of Bulgarian Shepherd Dogs in international cynology exhibitions in 2012, according to an announcement of the Bulgarian Agriculture Ministry. The money will be transferred to the Bulgarian Cynology Club. The assistance will be available to registered agricultural producers breeding purebred dogs under the supervision of the Bulgarian [...]
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Bulgaria’s 300-capacity transit centre for asylum seekers in the Southeastern village of Pastrogor will be officially inaugurated on Thursday. Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is set to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the center, local media announce. The opening of the transit center had been obstructed by years of delays. It was declared ready already in 2007. However, it was not until [...]
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