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Brussels to Subject Bulgaria to Excessive Deficit Procedure - Report [May 12, 2010] Bulgaria joined the European Union on January 1, 2007, and has been running one of Europes tightest fiscal policies. Photo by EPA/BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Regional Police Chief Fired for Mafia Ties [May 05, 2010] The Director of the Regional Directorate of the Interior in Bulgaria's city of Veliko Tarnovo, Milen Manolov, has been fired. The order is signed by Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the Bulgarian news agency BGNES reports Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

UN Head: Bulgaria Capable of Balancing Balkan Stability [May 04, 2010] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stated Bulgaria is capable of having a balancing role in the Balkans. Photo by EPA/BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Spanish Electra to Build Wind Power Park in Central Bulgaria [Apr 26, 2010] Electra started activities in Bulgaria about six months ago. Photo by BGNES Spanish energy holding Electra plans to build a 100 MW wind power park in the central part of Bulgaria and has already bought 5000 decares of land, the company announced. [via YahooNews] More >>

EU Tougher Rules "Dim" Bulgaria's Euro Hopes (Novinite.com) [Mar 26, 2010] Countries must be members of ERM II for two years before they can formally join the eurozone. Bulgaria has so far believeed that it could be ready for euro entry by 2013. Photo by EPA/BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Controversial Czech Artist Cerny: No Bad Feelings about Bulgaria (Novinite.com) [Mar 11, 2010] David Cerny says he likes Bulgaria. Photo by EPA/BGNES Czech artist, David Cerny, who stirred a heated controversy with his Entropa exhibit, says he does not harbor any hard feelings about Bulgaria. [via YahooNews] More >>

Irish Street in Bulgaria?s Chepelare Set for Official Opening (Novinite.com) [Mar 11, 2010] Ireland's Ambassador to Bulgaria, Geoffrey Keating. Photo by BGNES Irish Ambassador Geoffrey Keating is set to attend the opening of ?Irlandia? (Ireland) street in Bulgaria?s winter resort town of Chepelare next week. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Said to Face Greek Crisis Repeat (Novinite.com) [Mar 11, 2010] A man passes by store window with a banner for a reduction to 50 percent of the goods in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo by EPA/BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Commemorates Rescue of Jews in 1943 (Novinite.com) [Mar 10, 2010] Bulgaria's Parliamentary speaker Tsetska Tsacheva is pictured here as she lays flowers at the memorial by the National Assembly. Photo by EPA/BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Faces Junk Grade on External Debt Concerns, Fitch Says (Novinite.com) [Mar 05, 2010] A beggar man counts his coins in front of a cash machine in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo by EPA/BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Italy's Edison Forms JV to Build Greece-Bulgaria Gas Pipeline (Novinite.com) [Mar 04, 2010] The pipeline, dubbed Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria, or IGB, has the possibility to access EU funding. Photo by EPA/BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Berbatov Central to Bulgaria's Hopes (Novinite.com) [Mar 01, 2010] Berbatov has been a talisman for Bulgaria over recent years. Photo by BGNES After a decade of unprecedented achievement in the 1990s, Bulgaria have struggled to match those accomplishments; something Dimitar Berbatov is looking to change as he targets a place at UEFA EURO 2012. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM: No Blacklisting Private Companies over Govt Debt (Novinite.com) [Feb 19, 2010] Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov in Parliament Friday. Photo by BGNES Bulgaria?s government is not going to compile a list of private companies that refused to renounce 10% of the sums owed to them by the state. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Confirms Slim Losses from Greek Blockade (Novinite.com) [Feb 14, 2010] The border crossing point Kulata - Promahonas between Bulgaria and Greece was opened briefly on Sunday. Photo by EPA/BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Tax Authorities Probe Busted DANS Agent Businesses (Novinite.com) [Feb 11, 2010] Former DANS undercover agent Aleksei Petrov. Photo by BGNES Bulgaria's National Revenue Agency had begun a tax audit of the insurance company ?Lev Ins,? connected to Aleksei Petrov, Darik radio reports. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Nominee Well-received by MEP (Novinite.com) [Feb 04, 2010] Bulgaria's new EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva. Photo by EPA/BGNES Bulgaria?s replacement nominee for the European Commission delivered a competent performance on Wednesday at a European Parliament confirmation hearing, smoothing the way for the new Commission to win approval next week. [via YahooNews] More >>

EC Interim Report About Bulgaria, Romania Due in February (Novinite.com) [Jan 25, 2010] A Bulgarian boy sits between EU flag and Bulgarian flag in Altimir, some 150 km from Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo by EPA/BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM Borisov to Meet Merkel on Official Germany Visit (Novinite.com) [Jan 25, 2010] Borisov and Merkel are meeting in Berlin Monday. Photo by EPA/BGNES Bulgaria?s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is on an official visit to Germany Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to See Boom of Discounters in 2010 (Novinite.com) [Jan 06, 2010] Lidl is about to open its first sites in Bulgaria. Photo by EPA/BGNES The economic crisis in the past year has proved fertile for the discount retailers stepping on Bulgarian soil in recent months and the country will see their boom in 2010, a realtor report says. [via YahooNews] More >>