Bulgaria will need to treble the pace of EU funds absorption to prevent losses of millions of euro next year. In 2013, Bulgaria will have to certify expenses of BGN 6.76 B, or twice the amount for 2012, according to a publication of Sega daily. Information provided by the press office of EU Funds Minister Tomislav Donchevconcerning [...]
Bulgaria’s ex Tsar and ex Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg has published an article claiming that his primary motivation for “accepting” to head the Bulgarian government in 2001 was to make the country an EU member. The article in question appeared on Saxe-Coburg’s website on Tuesday, April 24, apparently intended to note the anniversary since the signing of Bulgaria’s EUaccession treaty seven years ago, on [...]
Bulgaria and Romania‘s bids to join the Schengen Agreement are not likely to receive a green light by the Netherlands ahead of the country’s early elections in the fall, a Dutch expert reckons. The parties that are key for changing the Dutch stance on Bulgaria and Romania‘sSchengen entry have solid opinions on the issue, according to Adriaan Schout, Deputy Director of the Netherlands Institute for International Relations. A [...]
Meglena Kuneva, former EU Commissioner and founder of the Bulgaria for Citizens movement, has suggested that EU funds could be tapped to expand the cinema network in the country. The Bulgaria for Citizens movement presented its ideas in the sphere at a Monday discussion titled “New Opportunities for the Development of Cultural Policies in Bulgaria.” In her statement Kuneva [...]
The Bulgarian state has vowed that it will. At least to a certain degree, stop accommodating refugees and asylum seekers in closed, prison-like centers set up for temporary accommodation of illegal immigrants. Under a decision adopted at a Wednesday regular session of the government, the ordinance on the coordination between the state bodies in charge of illegal migration [...]
Serbia will not become a member of the European Union until it resolves the issue with its Bulgarian minority, Bulgaria’s Vice President Margarita Popova has declared. Popova visited the town of Bosilegrad in Serbia, which is populated by ethnic Bulgarians, not onlike other border regions in Eastern Serbia, which Bulgaria was forced to cede under the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine after World War I. The regions [...]
Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Deputy Chair of center-right ruling party GERB, who is in Brussels for a Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting, has met with Wilfred Martens, President of the European People’s Party. Tsvetanov thanked Martens, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament Joseph Daul, and Secretary General [...]
Brussels will take its decision on Bulgaria and Romania‘s bids to enter the Schengen agreement in September, it was confirmed on Thursday. “I hope that in September Brussels will approve a two-phase approach for Bulgaria‘s and Romania‘s accession to the European Union’s borderless Schengen area,” Bulgaria‘s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov announced in Brussels on Thursday [...]
Bulgaria has declared its opposition to the liberalization of vine planting rights in the European Union that is scheduled to begin from 2016. Thus, the Balkan country has become the 15th EU member state to the planned liberalization after Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Austria, Romania, Luxembourg, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and [...]
The measures set to help Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen Agreement are yet to be considered, sources from the Danish EU presidency have said, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency. On March 2, it was made clear that no decision on Bulgaria and Romania’s bids to enter the Schengen Agreement will be taken [...]
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