The European Commission does not include experts in constitutional law, Enlargement Commissioner Oli Rehn has shared with Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev. "We both agreed that Bulgaria has progressed quite a lot," Stanishev said.
A day after a scandal over the proposed enforcement of a safeguard clause rocked Bulgaria, Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev conferred tete-a-tete with European Enlargement Commissioner Oli Rehn. Officially, the topic of the half-hour meeting were Bulgaria
The amendments to Bulgaria's Constitution, which triggered negative reactions from Brussels, will be adopted nearly unchanged by March 30. The news emerged after a meeting of representatives of the ruling majority Coalition for Bulgaria, Simeon II Nation
Bulgaria's minister of EU affairs has faced a storm of criticism from the left wing after she assumed a possible entry delay. A day earlier Meglena Kuneva presented to magistrates a report by European Commission experts, which suggests the enforcement of
Bulgaria's prime minister will be one of the participants in the Spring Summit of the European Union (EU). Sergey Stanishev will be joined by his Romanian counterpart as well, since Sofia and Bucharest are hoping to enter the Union as full members next y
The European Union has issued a a first-ever blacklist banning more than 90 airlines from operating in its sky.
European Commission experts have proposed the enforcement of a safeguard clause for Bulgaria in the justice and home affairs field. Their report has been prepared after an inspection conducted from February 20 to 24, 2006.
France has launched the procedure for ratification of Bulgaria and Romania's EU Accession Treaty, but it will wait to complete it until after the EC releases its May report.
EU Member states have agreed on a plan to replace the 110 existing types of driving licences with a single document to be valid across the bloc. The plan is expected to be officially approved by EU ministers at a meeting on 27 March.
The EU rapporteur for Bulgaria praised the country's boosted efforts to fight corruption and organized crime. There is still a long way to go but Bulgaria is on the right track, Geoffrey van Orden has said in an interview for Borba, a newspaper in Veliko
The Dutch people want Bulgaria to join the European Union (EU), but you have to prepare for that entry, the Netherlands' Ambassador to Bulgaria HE Willem van Ee said. Van Ee, who was on a visit to the Black Sea town of Burgas, commented that sufficient p
More than 50% of young Frenchmen support the EU enlargement process and the accession of Bulgaria and Romania, a Eurobarometer research shows.
Bulgaria's future in the European Union (EU) was discussed at the European Boards' Meeting of AEGEE (Association des Etats Generaux des Etudiants de l'Europe) under the motto "Through the difficulties to the stars".
EU Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel was assured agriculture will not be a stumble on the path of Bulgaria towards full EU membership.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev was affirmative on all institutions' commitment to work for achieving the accession to the EU next January.
Bulgaria may move towards re-negotiating of the closure of its nuclear power plant, according to a national observer to the European Parliament.
The European Parliament overwhelmingly adopted the report on the future enlargement of the European Union drafted by the Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs Elmar Brock.
European Enlargement Commissioner Oli Rehn will present his decisive report on Bulgaria, Romania on May 16, according to Financial Times. The report will be a crucial assessment on the readiness of the two to enter the EU as full members.
Bulgaria is more ready for accession to the EU than the ten newcomers to the bloc upon their entry in 2004.
Bulgaria has expressed hopes to be included among the beneficiaries of a 1 billion-Swiss-franc funding package that Switzerland approved last February for the ten new EU member states. This was announced by Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov at a press
Citizens of Romania and Bulgaria will be freely admitted to Finland's labour market as of January 2007, when they are scheduled to join the EU, Finnish parliament unanimously decided. As of May 1 this year Finland will also remove restrictions on the fre
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