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Illegal Roma compounds in the Bulgarian capital will be demolished in a special operation, officials have decided Tuesday.
The Commission for Public Order and Security announced that the operation would begin in two months.
Politics | May 16, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
Chief Prosecutor of Bulgaria Boris Velchev has expressed disagreement with the conclusion of the EC report, saying Sofia cripples with financial control on money laundering.
Talking to media minutes after the EP plenary, where EU Commissioner for Enlarge
Romania's prime minister described the European Commission monitoring report on the country's progress to EU as "fair and objective".
"This is the highest assessment that Romania has ever received from the European Commission," Calin Popescu-Tariceanu sa
Ivanka Dilovska, a deputy of Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister Rumen Ovcharov, has tabled her resignation.
Media broke Tuesday that Dilovska quit while Minister Ovcharov was attending a forum in Moscow.
Politics | May 16, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
Political criteria
Since last October Romania has taken significant steps in the reform of the judiciary.
In the field of political criteria, since October 2005 Bulgaria made further progress in the reform of the judiciary. It also has undertaken measures to fight corruption, which have allowed investigations into high-level corruption cases to be launched.
Bulgaria has reduced the number of red flags, or "areas of serious concern" to six down from 16, a crucial progress report of the European Commission, released Tuesday, shows.
"The message of the European Commission is encouraging and inspires us to double our efforts," Bulgaria's prime minister said, commenting on Tuesday's monitoring report by the EC.
Sergey Stanishev found conclusions in the document to match Bulgaria's own
Sofia prison has seen its new director on Tuesday after Justice Minister Georgi Petkanov appointed Mileti Oresharski on the vacant duty.
The former director of the prison, Dimitar Raychev, was fired March 22 after a video on homosexual orgy, shot by a fo
Politics | May 16, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria and Romania have to fulfill ten more conditions in order to enter the EU next year, the BBC wrote following Tuesday's monitoring report buy the European Commission.
"Bulgaria in particular will have to show tangible results in the fight against
Bulgaria - the same as Romania - could face serious EU membership restrictions and cuts to EU funds after they join, unless they manage to set up agencies managing Europe's funds.
Bulgaria's state anti-discrimination commission has taken on a case of suspected abuse by Sofia policemen.
Officials held Tuesday their first session over a complaint by homosexual Alir Ayeti, media reported.
Politics | May 16, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn called for swift ratification of Bulgaria and Romania by the states still pending on it. He did this towards the end of what is widely regarded as an optimistic report on the progress made by the two countries on the pa
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Diplomatic relations established between Bulgaria and the European Economic Community.
Though both Bulgaria and Romania strive to meet the conditions for membership, they are to step up efforts in the fight against corruption and organized crime, the enlargement commissioner said.
In the plenary of the European Parliament on Tuesday, Olli
The European Commission urged Bulgaria and Romania to speed up reforms before their planned accession into the European Union on January 1, 2007 and delayed its final recommendation on their entry review.
Bulgaria's forward Martin Petrov will stay in Spain's Atletico, media reported.
Javier Aguirre, who is currently the technical director of Osasuna has advised Atletico not to sell Petrov, Spanish As newspaper says.
Sports | May 16, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria might offer hospitals for sale in a way to drag them out of financial crisis, Health Minister Radoslav Gaydarski has said.
He suggested that smaller hospitals that offer limited range of services are in an especially difficult position, and priv
Business | May 16, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
Sofia Mayor Boyko Borissov has insisted that all posters with obscene content be stripped off the walls of the capital.
Borissov will also penalize both the people who ordered the posters, and the distributors of advertising materials.
Politics | May 16, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
A powerful earthquake with 7.4 magnitude hit under the South Pacific Tuesday, north off New Zealand.
World | May 16, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria's CableNet Ltd, which will be providing services under the brand name of Max Telecom, became a member of the International WiMAX Forum, the company announced.
WiMAX Forum is an industry-led, non-profit corporation formed to promote and certify c
Business | May 16, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00
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