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Bulgaria MPs to Enjoy Higher Salaries after Stealthy Move
Bulgarian lawmakers, who are best known for their infamous habit of playing truant, have increased their salaries, rather on the sly. Prime Minister Boyko Borisov froze last year the salaries of top politicians in Bulgaria at their levels from the end of 2009, despite the cabinet's decision to up the minimum monthly wage in Bulgaria in May, 2012 ? from BGN 270 to BGN 290. Borisov backed his belt ...
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Bulgaria Still Wants to Join Euro, Holds Debt Rules Sacred
Bulgaria still wants to join the eurozone provided the bloc's members obey its rules on limiting debt, Traicho Traikov, Bulgaria's Economy Minister, said in an interview for German media. "Provided all other eurozone states stick to the debt rules in future...entry to the currency union remains a medium-term goal for us," Minister Traikov told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...
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Bulgaria Seeks Foreign Expert Help for New Jail Project
Bulgaria will invite foreign experts to help it create the project for its new jail, the country's Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva has announced. Little progress has been made in the project, since discussions have been mainly focused on finding the appropriate place where the jail should be built, Kovacheva explained in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio. The assistance of foreign ...
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Severe frost paralyzes Danube shipping
Bulgaria and Romania are suspending all shipping on the Danube River due to severe frost and the vast amount of ice blocking the heavily traveled waterway, Bulgaria's Transport Ministry said Wednesday.
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Bulgaria Has 600 Unsafe Dams - Economy Minister
There are 600 potentially unsafe dams in Bulgaria, according to data of the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, made public several days after a Bulgarian dam burst and flooder several villages killing 10 people. This makes about one-fifth of the some 3 000 water reservoir dams all over Bulgaria, government data shows; each of the 27 Bulgarian districts is said to have about 20 potentially ...
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Bulgaria Outraged by Dutch Discrimination Site
Bulgaria has reacted strongly to the new initiative of the Dutch Freedom Party of Geert Wilders which presented a special site where the Dutch can submit complaints about Eastern Europeans. Vesela Cherneva, spokesperson of the Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministry, says her institution cannot accept the fact that one of the countries founders of the European Union is tolerating incitement to hatred ...
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Bulgaria at Euro-Caspian energy crossroads
MONTREAL - Bulgaria, in southeastern Europe, is fast becoming a fiercely fought over territory amongst competing projects aimed at transporting Caspian natural gas to Europe.
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Bulgaria, Romania may hope for Schengen entry after EU reports
Bulgaria and Romania have made some progress against corruption and organized crime, the EU executive said.
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EU criticizes Bulgaria, Romania on reforms
The European Union criticized Romania and Bulgaria on Wednesday for being too slow to reform their judicial systems or to combat corruption and organized crime. The move casts doubt on the two Balkan nations joining the borderless Schengen zone anytime soon.
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Bulgaria Needs Much Deeper Judicial Reform - EC Interim Report
Bulgaria has taken certain measures to improve its justice system and the persecution of organization crime but more convincing results are needed, according to the interim monitoring report of the European Commission on Bulgaria. The Commission's reports under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) are published twice a year to monitor Bulgaria's post-EU accession progress in certain ...
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EU Criticizes Bulgaria, Romania on Reforms
EU criticizes Bulgaria, Romania on reforms, sets back their hopes to join borderless zone
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Bulgaria: Floods Threaten Villages
Swollen rivers in Bulgaria and Greece burst their banks on Tuesday, leaving dozens of homes underwater, as Bulgarian officials declared a day of mourning for eight people confirmed killed after a dam collapsed.
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Berbatov softens stance on Bulgaria comeback
SOFIA (Reuters) - Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov edged a step closer to ending his self-imposed international exile on Tuesday, saying he would be open to an approach from the Bulgaria national team's new coach. The 31-year-old, who is the Balkan country's all-time leading scorer with 48 goals, quit Bulgaria in 2010 and has repeated several times since then that he had no intention ...
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Bulgaria: Floods Threaten Villages
Swollen rivers in Bulgaria and Greece burst their banks on Tuesday, leaving dozens of homes underwater, as Bulgarian officials declared a day of mourning for eight people confirmed killed after a dam collapsed.
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Bulgaria, Greece battle flooding; 8 dead
Dozens of homes are underwater in Bulgaria and Greece as Europe continues to battle extreme weather.
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WWF urges Bulgaria to drop forest law changes
Environmental pressure group WWF urged Bulgaria on Tuesday to withdraw planned changes to its forestry legislation which would relax rules on building ski runs and facilities in protected areas.
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Berbatov softens stance on Bulgaria comeback
Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov edged a step closer to ending his self-imposed international exile on Tuesday, saying he would be open to an approach from the Bulgaria national team's new coach.
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Greece, Bulgaria battle flooding; 8 dead
Swollen rivers in Greece and Bulgaria burst their banks Tuesday, leaving dozens of homes underwater, as Bulgarian officials declared a day of mourning for eight people confirmed killed after a dam collapse ...
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Bulgaria Promised Respite from Winter Nightmare on Febr 20
The severe cold snap and floods that hit hard Bulgaria will come to an end after two weeks, when the mercury will permanently rise above the freezing point, forecasts say. Until February 20 however Bulgaria is to see another wave of heavy snowfalls in most parts of the country, as well as strong winds in the east during the next few days, weather forecasts have warned. On Tuesday temperatures in ...
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Bulgaria under Code Orange over Harsh Weather
Code orange has been declared for almost the entire territory of Bulgaria on Tuesday by the national weather service, due to especially cold weather. All, but one, Bulgarian regions remain under code orange over extremely low temperatures, the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) announced Tuesday morning. Code orange means intense weather ...
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