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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-05-26 11:15 UPDATE 1-Bulgaria set to apply for ERM-2 entry in 2011 [May 26, 2010] BUCHAREST, May 26 (Reuters) - Bulgaria plans to apply for the pre-euro ERM-2 waiting room next year, Finance Minister Simeon Djankov said on Wednesday. "We can't apply for ERM-2 this year, we have to wait. But starting with January 1 of next year we are ready to move. Our intention is to apply next year," Finance Minister Simeon Djankov said but did not elaborate. In April, Bulgaria was forced ... [via YahooNews] More >>

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-05-25 10:20 UPDATE 1-Bulgaria to target 4.8 pct/GDP fiscal gap in 2010 [May 25, 2010] BUCHAREST, May 25 (Reuters) - Bulgaria will target a budget deficit of 4.8 percent of gross domestic product under local accounting standards in 2010, far wider than initial estimates, central bank deputy Governor Kalin Hristov said on Tuesday. Bulgaria's admission last month that it had hidden the truth about the size of its 2009 deficit sent ripples across emerging Europe, raising concerns ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Tourists Flood Bulgarias Golden Sands Resort for Easter [Apr 04, 2010] Some 20 000 Romanians are spending the Easter holidays in the top Bulgarian Black Sea resort Golden Sands. The tourists are mostly from Bucharest and have been attracted to the Bulgarian seaside by the competitive all-inclusive package three nights for EUR 100. [via YahooNews] More >>

Gazprom???s South Stream: Romania in, Bulgaria out? (Novinite.com) [Feb 19, 2010] Bucharest has given Russian gas monopoly Gazprom all the documentation relevant for building the South Stream pipeline through Romanian territory, it was announced yesterday (18 February). The move appears to give flesh to a recent Russian threat to eliminate Bulgaria from the project. [via YahooNews] More >>

Harsh weather kills five in Bulgaria - Summary (EARTHtimes.org) [Jan 05, 2008] Sofia/Bucharest - A massive blizzard and harsh winter weather have claimed at least five lives and kept Bulgaria paralyzed under a blanket of ice, local media reported Saturday. A state of emergency remained in effect in eight municipalities in the h... [via YahooNews] More >>

Heavy snow blankets Romania and Bulgaria (Reuters via Yahoo! India News) [Jan 03, 2008] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Heavy snow blanketed Romania and Bulgaria on Thursday, cutting power to hundreds of towns and villages, blocking roads and forcing some Black Sea ports to close. [via YahooNews] More >>

Heavy snow blankets Romania and Bulgaria (AlertNet) [Jan 03, 2008] Source: Reuters (Updates with airports reopening) BUCHAREST, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Heavy snow blanketed Romania and Bulgaria on Thursday, cutting power to hundreds of towns and villages, blocking roads and forcing some ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Heavy snow blankets Romania and Bulgaria (AlertNet) [Jan 03, 2008] Source: Reuters BUCHAREST, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Heavy snow blanketed Romania and Bulgaria on Thursday, cutting power to hundreds of towns and villages, blocking roads and forcing Bucharest's two airports and some Black ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Booming Balkans (Naples Daily News) [Feb 18, 2007] Buzesti Street used to be one of the shabbiest parts of Bucharest with crumbling, Communist-era structures and one of the city?s roughest markets. Now, gleaming multistory buildings have turned the area into one of the capital?s new business centers ? testimony to a property boom sweeping Romania and Bulgaria, the newest members of the European Union. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania, Bulgaria - dynamic on the European real estate market (Nine O'Clock) [Feb 15, 2007] Bucharest - Great Britain ranks first in terms of foreign investments in real estate business with 34 per cent of the total transactions made on the European real estate market, followed by Germany with 21 per cent and France with 13 per cent. [via YahooNews] More >>

Regular Train Line to Link Bulgaria's Russe, Bucharest (Novinite.com) [Feb 09, 2007] Bulgaria in Brief: 9 February 2007, Friday. Trains of German engineering giant Siemens will service the regular line to run from Bulgaria's Danube town of Russe to Bucharest. This is envisaged by an agreement that the transport ministers of the two countries signed Friday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania, Bulgaria see construction boom (AP via Yahoo! News) [Jan 21, 2007] Buzesti Street used to be one of the shabbiest parts of Bucharest with crumbling, Communist-era structures and one of the city's roughest markets. [via YahooNews] More >>

Meglena Kuneva, thanks Romania for transit fares cancellation (Nine O'Clock) [Jan 14, 2007] The European Commissioner, Bulgarian Meglena Kuneva, thanked in a letter sent to Bucharest authorities for the decision to abolish the fares charged at Giurgiu cross-border point, which connects Bulgaria to Romania. [via YahooNews] More >>

Brave new world for two old Balkans (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) [Jan 09, 2007] It is tempting to join the revelers in Bucharest and Sofia who seem to believe that European Union membership promises untold riches. The eight former communist states that joined in 2004 have done pretty well. Bulgaria and Romania are already growing strongly; E.U. money will help. Yet the Balkan pair differ from their predecessors. Bulgaria's GDP per head in 2005 was only $3,480 and Romania's ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania and Bulgaria set for boom in low-cost flights (Financial Times) [Jan 05, 2007] Sitting around a restaurant table last weekend, Paul-Andre Baran, an American living in Bucharest, and his Romanian wife Raluca could barely contain their excitement as they discussed plans to travel in Europe in 2007. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania, Bulgaria Join EU; Allianz Details Bulgarian Venture's Success (Insurance Journal) [Jan 02, 2007] Romania and Bulgaria, two of Europe's poorest countries, officially became members of the European Union on New Year's Day, bringing the total to 27. Celebrations in Bucharest and Sofia greeted the tw [via YahooNews] More >>

Fireworks and cheers bring Romania and Bulgaria into EU (International Herald Tribune) [Jan 01, 2007] Blue and gold EU flags fluttered across Bucharest and fireworks thundered through the sky in Romania and Bulgaria as the two former Communist nations loudly and joyously joined the EU. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania and Bulgaria newest EU members (AP via Yahoo! News) [Jan 01, 2007] Blue and gold EU flags fluttered across Bucharest and fireworks thundered through the sky at midnight in Romania and Bulgaria as the two former Communist Eastern bloc nations loudly and joyously joined the European Union. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania, Bulgaria join EU (USA Today) [Jan 01, 2007] Blue-and-gold EU flags fluttered across Bucharest and celebratory fireworks thundered through the sky at midnight as Romania, along with southern neighbor Bulgaria, became the latest countries to join the European Union. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Romania join EU (Japan Today) [Jan 01, 2007] BUCHAREST ? Bulgaria and Romania became the newest members of the European Union as midnight struck Sunday. [via YahooNews] More >>