After 2014 the European Union will allot direct agricultural subsidies only to active farmers and not to landowners who do not cultivate the land, the bloc’s Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Ciolos, announced. Following the approval of the European Union budget proposal for the period 2014 to 2020, the European Commission is about to begin to [...]
Denmark‘s Parliament has voted to reintroduce customs controls along its borders with Germany and Sweden next week. As of Tuesday, Denmark will deploy at first 30 customs officers to carry out spot checks at border crossings, Denmark‘s taxation minister Peter Christensen announced, as cited by DPA, after the Danish parliament gave its go-ahead on Friday. [...]
Bulgaria’s border checkpoints will be connected to Interpol‘s database, it was announced Friday after the country’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov met with Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble. The opportunity to use Interpol‘s data will boost the capacity to prevent trans-border crime. The system will provide direct access to information about wanted individuals, stolen cars or stolen [...]
Bulgarians and Romanians, as well as foreigners from outside the EU, will now only be granted a work permit in the Netherlands under “exceptional cases.” The Dutch lawmakers passed the measure, brainchild of Social Affairs Minister Henk Kamp, despite EU official’s warnings that it might harm the freedom of movement, one of EU‘s fundamental freedoms. [...]
Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein are granting Bulgaria funding amounting to EUR 126.6 M under Bulgaria-Norway and European Economic Area (EEA) mechanisms. Norway’s Ambassador to Bulgaria Tove Skarstein and Bulgaria’s EU Funds Minister Tomislav Donchev signed two memorandums for the grants on Friday in Sofia in the presence of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. The grants come [...]
Bulgaria has boosted EU funds absorption to 13% from the 0.98% during the previous government, EU Funds Minister Tomislav Donchev announced. In a Friday interview for the morning broadcast of Bulgarian National Television (BNT), Donchev specified that the audit report of KPMG confirmed the data he had been given. The KPMG report, which was released [...]
The results of the July report of the European Commission (EC) under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) in the area of justice and home affairs will determine whether Bulgaria and Romania can join Schengen by end-2011, announced Hungarian Ambassador to Bulgaria Judith Lang. “I hope that the report will provide favorable conclusions about Sofia [...]
A navigation satellite, part of the Galileo system will be named after Nataliya, a 9 year-old Bulgarian girl, who won the country’s Galileo drawing contest.. The Galileo Contest is a chance for one child from each EU country to’join the stars’ by having a real geostationary navigation satellite, part of the Galileo system, named after [...]
The European Commission (EC) has opened three infringement procedures against Bulgaria over a flawed public procurement tender and the country’s failure to incorporate two Directives into its national legislation. The first procedure involves a violation of European public procurement regulations on the part of the Electricity System Operator (ESO), a unit of Bulgaria’s state-owned power [...]
Bulgaria has not experienced a tide of illegal immigrants as a result of the ongoing civil unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov announced. Tsvetanov presented Friday the results from the work of the Border Police Directorate of the Interior for 2010. Final data shows that a total of 1 [...]
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