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No Need for Catchers in Bulgaria's Rye

This week Bulgaria's Ministry of Agriculture triumphantly announced the country's production of wheat and barley had reached a record level in the last 16 years. The next time Bulgaria has such yields again will probably be after 16 more years.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | August 7, 2008, Thursday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2964

France Ambassador to Sofia: Bulgaria Needs Better Image with French Investors

The French Ambassador to Sofia Etienne de PONCINS was born in 1964. He is married, with three children.

Novinite Insider » Interview | July 30, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 5150

Bansko Irresponsibility

On July 23, the European Commission politely, but firmly slammed Bulgaria with two highly critical monitoring reports stripping two of the country's government Agencies allocating EU money of their accreditation and blocking a total of over EUR 825 M of t

Novinite Insider » Editorial | July 29, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2489

EU's Bulgarian Lesson

The European Commission recently released what has been described as its most critical monitoring report ever on a new member state. It found the monitored country, Bulgaria, was plagued with corruption, organized crime, and an impotent administration.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | July 25, 2008, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2303

H??rriyet CEO Vuslat Sabanci: Profit Makes Newspapers Independent

The CEO of the Turkish newspaper H??rriyet Vuslat Dogan Sabanci is a graduate of Ankara's Bilkent University. She received her Masters degree in International Media and Communications at Columbia University in New York.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | July 8, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 5353

Free Fireworks - Welcome to Sofia

If you were woken up by violent explosions early Thursday morning, chances are you are not in the Gaza Strip, Baghdad's Sadr City, or Chechnya, but in one of the EU capitals.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | July 3, 2008, Thursday // 00:00 | Viewed: 3182

North vs. South: Bulgaria's Infrastructure Discrimination

Bulgaria is the only country in the European Union without even one completed highway. This ridiculous fact aside, the Bulgarian government has recently taken steps to speed up the highway construction of the Trakiya, Maritza, Lyulin and Struma Highways.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | July 1, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 4779

Businessman Hristo Kovachki: We Need More Clarity in Euro Funds Absorption

The businessman Hristo Kovachki, considered to be one of the wealthiest Bulgarians and informal leader of the newly founded Liberal Initiative for Democratic European Development (LIDER) Party, spoke before Darik radio about the future of the party, the n

Novinite Insider » Editorial | June 25, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 4818

Who is Afraid of Arrest?

Former deputy prime minister, former party leader, former Kremikovtzi chief executive, and former CSKA president, Alexander Tomov, rightfully declared after his latest resignation and tons of allegations hurled against him that he is not afraid of being a

Novinite Insider » Editorial | June 13, 2008, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2028

Size Does Matter

I have always claimed that in order to make Bulgaria prosperous any government needs to do two things - build highways, and fix the educational system... On Monday the Council of Presidents of Bulgarian Universities complained the Education Ministry had

Novinite Insider » Editorial | June 9, 2008, Monday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2066

Former Bulgaria PM: Politician Filip Dimitrov Is Already History

The following is an interview given by former Bulgarian Prime Minister and Ambassador to the US Filip Dimitrov before Darik radio, after his announcement that he was leaving active political life: Filip Dimitrov: I think that when an individual can no lo

Novinite Insider » Editorial | June 6, 2008, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 4177

Our State of Declarations

The European Union is certainly taking matters in Bulgaria in its own hands. The EU seems more and more serious about penalizing us for the raging corruption, abuse of funds and power, and organized crime.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | June 6, 2008, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1741

Illegal Antiques' Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role, Part V

"The Illegal Antiques Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role", is an investigative material by Darik radio crime reporter Bogdana Lazarova on the state-organized antiques' trafficking in Bulgaria. It was published in the book, called "Affair", written by B

Novinite Insider » Editorial | June 5, 2008, Thursday // 00:00 | Viewed: 6701

To Define the Indefinable

Things in life sometimes take strange twists. But in Bulgaria it could hardly be anything that is likely to be called "strange".

Novinite Insider » Editorial | June 4, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1895

The State Where No One Fails

Bulgarian high school seniors sat Sunday for the first time for their obligatory school-leaving examinations - the so called "maturi" or "maturity exams", whose introduction became one of the greatest and most ridiculous sagas in the country's newest hist

Novinite Insider » Editorial | June 2, 2008, Monday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1933

Illegal Antiques' Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role, Part IV

"The Illegal Antiques Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role", is an investigative material by Darik radio crime reporter Bogdana Lazarova on the state-organized antiques' trafficking in Bulgaria. It was published in the book, called "Affair", written by B

Novinite Insider » Editorial | May 30, 2008, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2895

Paradise Lost, Paradise Not Regained

Two of Bulgaria's Deputy Ministers (of Economy and Defense) announced during the Hemus 2008 International Defense Expo that the country's military industry had already regained its positions on the global arms market that it had some 20 years ago.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | May 30, 2008, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2516

Illegal Antiques' Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role, Part III

"The Illegal Antiques Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role", is an investigative material by Darik radio crime reporter Bogdana Lazarova on the state-organized antiques' trafficking in Bulgaria. It was published in the book, called "Affair", written by B

Novinite Insider » Editorial | May 27, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2904

Illegal Antiques' Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role Part II

"The Illegal Antiques Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role", is an investigative material by Darik radio crime reporter Bogdana Lazarova on the state-organized antiques' trafficking in Bulgaria. It was published in the book, called "Affair", written by B

Novinite Insider » Editorial | May 21, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 4884

EU, Please, Colonize Us!

In the view of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht corruption was a positive social phenomenon as it allowed the poor and the downtrodden to go round the laws crafted by the powerful and the wealthy.

Novinite Insider » Editorial | May 21, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2391

Illegal Antiques Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role, Part I

"The Illegal Antiques Channels and Lyudmila Zhivkova's Role", is an investigative material by Darik radio crime reporter Bogdana Lazarova on the state-organized antiques' trafficking in Bulgaria. It was published in the book, called "Affair", written by B

Novinite Insider » Editorial | May 20, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 7164
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