A second Bulgarian diplomat – Ambassador Yuri Sterk – has been appointed as an Ambassador of the European Union. In a special statement, the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Baroness Catherine Ashton has announced the appointment of Ambassador Yuri Sterk as Head of the EU Delegation in Uzbekistan, as part of the European External Action Service (EEAS). “We are delighted by Baroness Catherine [...]
May 20, 2012 | Posted in
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European Union finance ministers have addressed Bulgarian concerns as they agreed on a plan to force banks to hold more capital to counter their risk-taking. After Bulgaria voiced concerns that banks may be forced to hold more capitalagainst the country’s sovereign debt, the EU ministers decided that banks in the country will not be obliged to report as risky the assets they hold in euros and will not be required [...]
May 20, 2012 | Posted in
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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 [...]
May 15, 2012 | Posted in
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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 [...]
May 11, 2012 | Posted in
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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 [...]
May 11, 2012 | Posted in
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In the first two months of 2012, Bulgaria’s exports to the EU exceeded BGN 3.3 B, decreasing by 8.1% from the same period in 2011. In the period January – February 2012, Bulgaria’s imports from EU countries increased by 6.7% on the year to BGN 4.1 B (CIF prices), according to data of theNational Statistical Institute (NSI). Two-thirds of Bulgaria’s exports to the EU went to five countries [...]
May 10, 2012 | Posted in
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The Euro Area (EU 17) had a seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate of 10.9% in March 2012, compared with 10.8% in February, according to the latest figures released Wednesday by Eurostat. The unemployment rate in the EU 17 was 9.9% in March 2011, with the March 2012 figure marking the highest unemployment in the euro zone member [...]
May 2, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgaria’s authorities are striving to absorb up to EUR 2 B for transport and infrastructure from the EU funding slated for the country for the 2007-2013 financial programming period, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has stated. Moskovski told students at the Sofia University of Architecture, Construction, and Geodesy on Wednesday that 1/3 of the total funding [...]
May 2, 2012 | Posted in
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For the past five years, we Bulgarians have been saying we are back to Europe. By that, we mean the European Union only, and nothing else. Because Bulgaria has always been in Europe – throughout its entire history, even during those controversial five centuries of much suffering that we love to associate with our southern habits and [...]
April 30, 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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