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 [...]
May 11, 2012 | Posted in
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The European Commission has insisted for the third time in two months that Bulgaria’s top judicial body, the Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) be elected directly, a report says. According to a report of the Capital Daily, EC Secretary-General Catherine Day has sent letter to the Bulgarian authorities, as represented by Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva, that [...]
May 2, 2012 | Posted in
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There is progress in the Netherlands with respect to lifting the Dutch veto on Bulgaria and Romania‘s Schengen Area accession, according to the Dutch Christian Democratic Party, a MP claim. Dutch Christian Democratic Member of Parliament Henk Jan Ormel spoke on the Bulgarian National Radio Saturday, stating that Bulgaria and Romania‘s chances of joining the visa-free Schengen agreement are growing. In September 2011, [...]
April 30, 2012 | Posted in
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The Heads of Delegation of the European People’s Party Group’s 10 Central and Eastern European Member States have sent an open letter to José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, over discrimination against Eastern Europe. The rightist Members of the European Parliament from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia have expressed their deep concern regarding “the numerous discriminatory actions carried out against [...]
April 30, 2012 | Posted in
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Countries that refused to open up their labor markets to Bulgarian and Romanian nationals in 2012 will have to submit their motives with the European Commissionby end-May. Nine EU countries decided to take advantage of the maximum period (December 31, 2013) to keep labor market restrictions for citizens of the EU’s two newest members, citing the crisis as a motive. [...]
April 25, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgaria, the poorest EU member state, is said to feel cheated as the EU institutions are about to seal a new policy allowing six other member states, which are struggling financially, to be able to co-fund projects with much less money. “Countries which maintain a strict financial discipline should not be punished and those that [...]
December 6, 2011 | Posted in
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The European Parliament has adopted Thursday a resolution opposing the facilitation of border control reintroduction within the Schengen free movement area. “The influx of migrants and asylum seekers cannot justify reintroducing border controls in Schengen,” says the resolution, adopted by a wide majority stating “strong and firm opposition” to such measures. Member states such as [...]
July 11, 2011 | Posted in
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Following European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet has voiced sharp criticism of financial rating agencies. Thursday Trichet spoke about the existence of a “structure of international credit agencies similar to an oligopoly,” describing it as “highly undesirable.” What provoked the unusually sharp criticism was the Tuesday downgrading of Portugal‘s [...]
July 11, 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
June 18, 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
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