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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Bulgaria’s MPs have approved at first reading proposed legislative amendments that allow the country’s highway speed limit to grow from 130 km/h to 140 km/h (87 mph). “We want to increase the speed limit because of the new highways under construction and the new, high quality roads. The existing restrictions will remain in the risky road sections,” explained Regional Development Minister [...]
April 25, 2012 | Posted in
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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 [...]
March 10, 2012 | Posted in
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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 [...]
March 10, 2012 | Posted in
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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 [...]
July 7, 2011 | Posted in
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Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has rejected allegations that donations received by the institution have strings attached, at the same time remaining elusive about whether the Ministry would return them. According to Tsvetanov, no persons have enjoyed protections or privileged status on the part of Bulgaria’s law enforcement system provided that sufficient evidence has been [...]
July 7, 2011 | Posted in
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Benjamin Netanyahu arrives on Thursday in Bulgaria, the first visit of an Israeli prime minister to the country for the last two decades. The Israeli delegation will include ministers of finance, telecommunications, construction and civil defense. The visit is at the invitation of Bulgaria‘s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. In Sofia Netanyahu is scheduled to confer [...]
July 7, 2011 | Posted in
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All donations received by the Interior Ministry will be stored on electronic or paper records for a period of five years, according to newly approved internal rules and regulations. The new document, prepared by a working group of the Interior Ministry, sets out the procedure for signing donation contracts, for keeping records in the donation [...]
June 18, 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
April 15, 2011 | Posted in
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Some 63% of Bulgarians are pessimists about their country’s future, according to a poll conducted by Gallup International in April 2011. After March became the first month in which over 60% of the surveyed by Gallup were pessimistic about their country’s development since the current ruling centrist-right GERB party took over in 2009, April’s poll [...]
April 15, 2011 | Posted in
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