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Bulgaria Mulls 2 Anti-mafia Agencies [Jul 29, 2010] Bulgaria is planning to create two brand new agencies to counter corruption and organized crime in order to clean its tarnished image as one of the most corrupt EU Member States. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgarias Population Crisis Worsens Despite Rising Birth Rate [Jul 27, 2010] Bulgaria was the country with the highest death rate of all 27 EU member states in 2009 - 14.2 per 1000 inhabitants. The average EU 27 death rate in 2009 was 9.7 per 1000 (a total of 4.8 million deaths). [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Among 25 Member-States under EU Excessive Deficit Procedure [Jul 05, 2010] Bulgaria and 24 EU member-states are going to be put under EU's new excessive budget deficit procedure, announced Monday Amadeu Altafaj i Tardio, spokesperson for European Commissioner for Economic and Budgetary Affairs Olli Rehn. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Fails Euro Test, Set under Excessive Deficit Procedure by EC [May 12, 2010] Bulgaria and seven other EU member states do not yet meet all the conditions for the adoption of the euro, the European Commission has concluded in its convergence report. [via YahooNews] More >>

PM: Bulgaria Is Doing Best of All EU Member States [May 09, 2010] Bulgaria is currently performing the best of all EU member states, according to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. We are acting in a way so that no one has to push us from the outside. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Joins Madrid Ecofin with Euro Hopes [Apr 16, 2010] Bulgaria's finance minister has not given up hope for pushing ahead with his euro plans, it emerged in Madrid where his colleagues from the other EU member states will consider and assess the country's convergence program. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria FinMin Goes to Crucial for Euro Bid Ecofin [Apr 15, 2010] Bulgaria's finance minister is heading Thursday for Madrid where his colleagues from the other EU member states will consider and assess the country's convergence program, crucial for its decision how long to keep on hold plans to join the eurozone. [via YahooNews] More >>

Brussels Thumbs Up Cheers Euro Hopeful Bulgaria (Novinite.com) [Mar 17, 2010] The European Commission examined on Wednesday the updated stability and convergence programs (SCPs) of fourteen EU member states, including Bulgaria. Photo by BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Prepares Candidate List for EU Diplomatic Posts (Novinite.com) [Mar 17, 2010] Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry is preparing a list of up to 20 diplomats to propose as members of the new European External Action Service. All EU member states are to submit their candidates to the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Catherine Ashton. [via YahooNews] More >>

EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva: Bulgaria Not Threatened with Having Greece?s Financial Problems (Novinite.com) [Mar 15, 2010] Bulgaria?s EU Commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva, who is in charge of the EC humanitarian aid portfolio, has answered questions of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) and a couple of Bulgarian-language media before she joined the Ambassadors of the EU member states in Sofia for a special lunch organized by the Spanish Embassy in Sofia as part of the program of the Spanish EU Presidency.* [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Commissioner Appeals to EU Countries over Haiti Aid (Novinite.com) [Mar 02, 2010] Bulgaria EU Commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva, will urge EU member states to speed up their work towards the commitments made to Haiti following January?s deadly earthquake. [via YahooNews] More >>