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REUTERS: NEW BULGARIAN OFFICIALS PLAN ECONOMIC RECOVERY

By REUTERS Two market reformers put in charge of the economy in Bulgaria's new government on Tuesday outlined a bold plan of speeding up reforms in one of the poorest European Union aspirants.

Views on BG | July 25, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 981

BBC: BULGARIA’S EX-KING SWEARS OATH TO REPUBLIC

By BBC Central Europe correspondent Nick Thorpe The former King of Bulgaria, Simeon II, has been sworn in as the country's prime minister after his newly formed cabinet won an overwhelming vote of confidence in parliament.

Views on BG | July 25, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 915

SIMEON II: NEW GOVERNMENT SETS PRIORITY ON EU AND NATO MEMBERSHIP

`Integration with the EU and NATO, a resolute fight against corruption, fast and steady economic growth are the main priorities of the new Bulgarian government`, Simeon Saxe-Coburg said in Parliament before the cabinet was voted into office on Tuesday. `O

Views on BG | July 24, 2001, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 949

INDEPENDENT: CITY BANKERS DITCH THE HIGH LIFE TO REBUILD BULGARIA'S ECONOMY

By Andrew Jivkov Two young former City investment bankers are giving up pay packets worth ?500,000 a year to join the government of Bulgaria, a country where the average salary is only about ?100 a month.

Views on BG | July 24, 2001, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1873

CAPITAL WEEKLY: HILL & KNOWLTON STEPS INTO BULGARIA

The company might acquire shares from its Bulgarian associate M3 Communications Group, Inc.

Views on BG | July 22, 2001, Sunday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1673

CNN: BULGARIA ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET

CNN EUROPE - SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Bulgaria's prime minister designate, former King Simeon II, has named businessmen rather than professional politicians in his Cabinet to tackle his country's woes.

Views on BG | July 22, 2001, Sunday // 00:00 | Viewed: 958

EKATERINA MIHAILOVA (UDF LEADER): `THE NEW CABINET IS A WEIRD MIXTURE`

`According to me the presence of emblematic figures from the Bulgarian Socialists Party, occupying key positions in the new cabinet, is significant. No matter how hard the socialists try to keep distance from what the new cabinet is, I think that its comp

Views on BG | July 22, 2001, Sunday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1133

OPPOSITION LEADER SEES COALITION AGREEMENT AS "BARGAIN"

Reported by Bulgarian National radio [Announcer] During her visit to Plovdiv, ODS [United of Democratic Forces] leader Ekaterina Mikhaylova commented on the coalition agreement between the SND [Simeon II National Movement] and the DPS [Rights and Freedo

Views on BG | July 21, 2001, Saturday // 00:00 | Viewed: 979

BULGARIA: NUCLEAR PLANT REPORTS "RAPID" PRODUCTION GROWTH IN FIRST SIX MONTHS

BBC Monitoring Service Vratsa, northwestern Bulgaria, 20 July: The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant reports a rapid growth of production in the first half of 2001.

Views on BG | July 21, 2001, Saturday // 00:00 | Viewed: 766

SOCIALISTS OPPOSE REVISION OF CONSTITUTION

`Coalition For Bulgaria believes that the Constitution should not be revised`, the Socialists` Deputy Floor Leader Kornezov said, commenting on the idea of Yunal Lyutfi of the ethnic Turks` Movement that the Constitution should be revised to reflect the f

Views on BG | July 18, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 829

NYT: PLANTS FROM AMERICAN STANDARD BOLSTER BULGARIA'S ECONOMY

New York Times, By JOHN TAGLIABUE SEVLIEVO, Bulgaria — Much like a Martian spacecraft, a huge new factory that makes porcelain bathroom fixtures is a startling sight on the farmland outside this worn-down city of 25,000 in a remote corner of the Balkans.

Views on BG | July 18, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1321

BBC: EX-KING STRIKES COALITION DEAL

BBC-The former King of Bulgaria, Simeon II, who won last month`s elections, has struck a coalition deal with a party representing the country`s ethnic Turkish minority. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms is due to sign the deal with the Simeon II Nation

Views on BG | July 18, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 897

UDF DISAPPROVES CHANGING THE ETHNIC MODEL

`The idea of changing the Bulgarian ethnic model poses certain risks to this country and should be subject to a very serious discussion`, Nadezhda Mihaylova, deputy chair of the UDF, said referring to statements by senior members of the Bulgarian ethnic T

Views on BG | July 18, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 750

REUTERS: BULGARIA`S SIMEON II IN DEAL WITH ETHNIC TURKS

SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Bulgaria`s prime minister designate, former King Simeon II, reached agreement on Tuesday on the formation of a coalition government, the first in the Balkan state to include an ethnic Turk party. No names of the future cabinet

Views on BG | July 17, 2001, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 797

MACEDONIAN DAILY COMMENTS ON ELECTION OF SIMEON II AS BULGARIAN PM

BBC Monitoring Service The Bulgarian king who was never crowned made history on the international political scene when he became the first person with royal blood to participate in parliamentary elections, to win the elections (convincingly), and after

Views on BG | July 17, 2001, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 879