The governments of Bulgaria and neighboring Romania have asked the European Commission to help convince older member states to lift restrictions for job-seekers from the two countries as of 2012. Bulgarian Labor Minister Totyu Mladenov and his Romanian counterpart Sebastian Lazaroiu have sent to this end a joint letter to Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion [...]
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has joined the other EU countries in the recognition and welcome of the newest independent state in the world, South Sudan, which held Saturday, July 9, 2011, its independence ceremony. “Six months after voting freely for independence in a democratic referendum, we witness the birth of Africa’s youngest nation. The peaceful road [...]
Bulgaria is a responsible manager of funds from the common EU budget and is in a good position to prove that to the EU, stated Bulgarian Minister of EU Funds Tomoslav Dochev. “Bulgaria is showing it can and it knows what it’s doing. Our country is in a better position than ever,” said Donchev in [...]
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. [...]
Exclusive interview of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) with Dr. Enver Hoxhaj, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kosovo. Enver Hoxhaj was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo On 22 February 2011. During the negotiation process (2005 – 2007), led by the UN Special Envoy, President Martti Ahtisaari, Enver Hoxhaj participated in [...]
Bulgaria has demanded that Belene nuclear project is frozen for another three months as of July, the energy and economy minister announced on Friday. “We have proposed a three-month delay so that we have time to catch up with the so-called back office work,” Minister Traicho Traikov said at a conference about the energy infrastructure, [...]
Exclusive interview with Nikolay Mladenov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, for Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency). Nikolay Mladenov was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria by the 41st National Assembly on January 27th 2010. Between July 2009 and January 2010 he was Minister of Defense of the Republic [...]
The Bulgarian government has signed a consulting contract with UK-based company HSBC for the financial analysis for the project for the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant. Bulgaria‘s Cabinet and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in particular have made it clear that the results from HSBC’s financial appraisal of the Belene project, i.e. whether it [...]
The EU 27 ministers for EU affairs have given a green light to the much anticipated Danube Region Strategy, which is supposed to help uplift economically Central and Southeast Europe. Member States’ ministers for EU affairs adopted the Council’s conclusions about the Danube Region Strategy on 13 April 2011. “Therefore, the first part of the [...]
Bulgaria joining the Schengen Agreement on a stage-by-stage basis is not a good idea, Carlos Coelho, EP rapporteur on the subject, stated on Thursday. . In January, Marian Titulescu, the head of the Romanian Foreign Ministry’s Schengen Department, said the Hungarian Presidency of EU considers a partial Bulgarian and Romanian Schengen accession in March 2011, [...]
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