Payments worth millions of euros under the EU-backed programme SAPARD are expected to be restarted on September 10 following the first meeting between Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and the President of the European Commission, Jose Barroso.
The European Commission is apprehensive about the lack of continuity and consistence in the reforms in the area of management of the EU funds in Bulgaria.
The Bulgarian EU Consumer Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva, announced Wednesday the results of an EU-wide investigation into misleading advertising and unfair practices on websites selling electronic goods.
The official position of the European People's Party is that Bulgaria's new EU Commissioner must be from the ruling GERB party of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov.
The European Commission has welcomed the new Bulgarian government plans to tackle corruption and organized crime, EC Spokesperson Mark Gray said Wednesday.
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov and a number of the Ministers from his newly formed cabinet are set to travel to Brussels Wednesday for a number of top level EU meetings.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will invest a record EUR 8 B in central and eastern Europe this year.
The Swiss Parliament approved a grant of EUR 50 M for Bulgaria late Monday as part of Switzerland's contribution to reducing economic and social disparities in an enlarged EU.
The European Commission would be inclined to extend the deadline of its ISPA program upon request of the Bulgarian delegation, scheduled to arrive in Brussels Wednesday.
The letter that three Dutch ministers recently sent to the House of Representatives, identifying shortcomings in Bulgaria, does not contain any new criticism, rather it summarizes the findings in the EU Commission's report.
The European Commission has unfrozen EUR 19 M of Bulgaria's SAPARD Program funds that had been blocked over earlier violations.
The European Union is in danger of breaking its promise that Turkey will eventually be granted membership, an influential group has warned.
Payments worth millions of euros under the EU-backed programme SAPARD will be restarted on September 10 following the first meeting between Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso.
There are positive signs from Brussels that it might unfreeze the much need for Bulgaria funds from the EU agriculture SAPARD program.
A European Commission spokesman has admitted that a group of European Union member states seek harsher control and sanctions against Bulgaria and Romania for their unsolved problems in the fields of justice and home affairs.
There is no second plan, should Irish voters reject the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty in a fresh referendum due on October 2, officials said Friday.
The European Commission has rejected Bulgaria's compliance assessments for one more of the operational programs for EU funding.
The first meeting between Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, is scheduled for September 10.
There is a real risk that Bulgaria will fail to absorb the EU ISPA program funds, according to Transport Minister, Alexander Tsvetkov.
The resources slated for the maintenance of Bulgaria's State Agriculture Fund have been spent, the Fund's new Director, Kalina Ilieva, reported.
Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naidenov, asked Italy for support in the unfreezing of the much needed SAPARD funds.
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