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Bulgaria Volleyball Team Coach Radostin Stoychev Kicked Out [May 13, 2012] Radostin Stoychev, Bulgaria's volleyball team coach, was dismissed on Sunday, a day after the heavy favorites for the 2012 Olympic Games-European Qualification Tournament were defeated by Germany in the second semifinal. Former coach, Italian Silvano Prandi, will take over the helm of the team, the volleyball federation announced, confirming earlier media speculations. Germany pulled off a huge ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Professional Boxer, Reservist Pulev Gets Defense Ministry Award [May 09, 2012] Bulgaria's professional boxer Kubrat Pulev, aka "The Cobra", who is a reserve sergeant from the Bulgarian Army, has been awarded by Bulgarian Defense Minister Anyu Angelov for landing the EBU European heavyweight title. Bulgarian boxer Kubrat Pulev won on Saturday the EBU European heavyweight title as he battered and stopped Alexander "Sascha" Dimitrenko of Germany (a Ukrainian native) in a face ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Swap Bonn for Frankfurt Consular Office [Apr 03, 2012] Bulgaria will create a new consular office in Frankfurt-am-Main, announced the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tuesday. No deadline has been given for the opening of the office, which the Ministry says will give Bulgaria a better representation and coverage of its citizens in Germany. In the move, Bulgaria plans to "temporarily" close down its current Bonn consulate as of June 30. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Europe Wake up without Facebook [Mar 07, 2012] Bulgaria and the entire Old Continent woke up Wednesday without Facebook. Between 9 and 10 am the 2 million Bulgarian Facebook users had no access to the Facebook site, even though some reported having such access, and others ? that there were frequent interruptions. Users across Europe, from Germany, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Turkey and Russia, among others, have alarmed ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Sets Analogue Switch-Off Deadline at Sept, 2013 [Mar 06, 2012] The analogue switch-off in Bulgaria has been scheduled to be wrapped up by September 1, 2013, the transport ministry announced. The digital dividend proposals adopted by the European Commission in 2010 asked EU member states to speed up the switch-off of analogue TV and to complete it by 1 January 2012, but Bulgaria failed to meet that deadline. Five countries - Finland, Germany, Luxemburg, the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria could suspend vote on ACTA [Feb 15, 2012] Bulgaria could soon join Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland in delaying its decision on whether to sign an international copyright treaty that some Internet users say could lead to online censorship. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria could suspend vote on trade agreement [Feb 14, 2012] Bulgaria could join Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland in delaying its decision on whether to sign an international copyright treaty that some Internet users say could lead to online censorship. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Withdraws From ACTA [Feb 14, 2012] Is the tide starting to turn on the European Union's controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? First Germany said that they were going to back off ratifying ACTA, following the position taken by Poland earlier. Now Bulgaria is doing the same thing, and won't be taking any steps toward ratifying the treaty any time soon. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria could suspend vote on trade agreement [Feb 14, 2012] Bulgaria could join Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland in delaying its decision on whether to sign an international copyright treaty that some Internet users say could lead to online censorship.Bulgarian ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria EconMin to Give Heed to German Stance on ACTA [Feb 02, 2012] Bulgaria's Economy Minister Traicho Traikov will get acquainted with Germany's stance on the controversial ACTA trade agreement during the Bulgarian-German Cooperation Council in Germany. Last week, Bulgaria became one of the 21 EU member states to sign ACTA, while Germany is among the five bloc members that have not inked it. Upon asked whether Bulgaria will take into consideration Germany's ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Clinton to visit Germany, Bulgaria [Jan 27, 2012] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel next week to a security conference in Germany before visiting Bulgaria to discuss their joint work in Afghanistan, a spokeswoman said Friday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's New President Embarks on 1st Foreign Visit [Jan 25, 2012] Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will depart Wedesday afternoon on his first two-day visit to Brussels. Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov will participate in the delegation, the press office of the head of state said in a statement. Bulgaria's new President will head for Brussels after Vice President Margarita Popova returns from Germany. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Leaked Milosevic's Kosovo Ethnic Cleansing Plan in 1999 [Jan 09, 2012] Bulgaria's government turned over to Germany and NATO intelligence information about "Operation Horseshoe" - the Kosovo ethnic cleansing plan of ex Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic back in 1999. This has been revealed by former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nadezhda Neynski (back then Nadezhda Mihaylova) in a documentary on "Operation Horseshoe" of the private Bulgarian channel bTV. "I provided ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Boosts Exports to EU by 34% Y/Y Jan-Oct 2011 [Jan 09, 2012] Bulgaria's exports to the rest of the EU increased by 33.8% year on year in the period January - October 2011, according to preliminary data released by the country's National Statistical Institute. Bulgaria's main trading partners within the bloc in that period were Germany, Romania, Italy, Greece and Belgium.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria?s Schengen (Corruption) Ordeal and Finland [Dec 09, 2011] One more obstacle on Bulgaria's way to join the Schengen Agreement seemed to vanish in mid-November when Finland officially softened its stance on the country's bid to enter EU's border-free zone. The Nordic country agreed to a compromise phased-in solution proposed by France and Germany, albeit it surely remains in doubt as to whether Bulgaria and Romania are mature enough to join Schengen. The ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Sofia Urges Germany to Pour Money into Bulgaria's Ports, Airports [Dec 01, 2011] Bulgaria's Transport and IT Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has called upon German investors to take part in the concessions of Bulgarian ports and airports. Moskovski met with Klaus-Dieter Scheurle, State Secretary of Germany's Ministry for Transport, Construction and Urban Planning in Berlin on Thursday, the press service of the Bulgarian Transport Ministry said. According to the Bulgarian ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Invites Hamburg Port Co to Check Out Port Varna [Dec 01, 2011] Bulgaria hopes that Hamburg Port and Logistics Company, the operator of Germany's major port, will express interest in the concession of the Bulgarian Port Varna on the Black Sea, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski stated in Berlin. "We are currently preparing the procedure for the concession of Port Varna, and I hope that the operator of Port Hamburg will be interested," Moskovski stated at a ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Transport Chief in Rough Talks with Germany's KfW over Trains [Nov 30, 2011] Bulgaria's Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski is in Germany Wednesday for talks with the KfW bank over the failure of the troubled Bulgarian State Railways company BDZ to pay its dues for 50 brand-new Siemens trains. In October, reports emerged that since BDZ had failed to pay its installments since 2010, KfW has the right to demand them back. The 50 electric and diesel trains in question have ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ranked as Major EU Industrial Polluter Despite Small Economy [Nov 24, 2011] Bulgaria is among EU's biggest industrial polluters by size of economy alongside Romania, Estonia, Poland and the Czech Republic, according to a report of the European Environment Agency (EEA) released on Thursday. The study, compiled on the basis of data for 2009 including carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, shows Germany and Poland as the biggest industrial polluters in the EU, followed by Britain ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Keeps 1st Place in Europe Chess Championship after Key Wins [Nov 08, 2011] Bulgaria made a second win against a difficult adversary to retain its first place in the temporary standing in the 2011 European Team Chess Championship by beating Germany 3:1. Sunday the Bulgarian team had made another decisive win, against the top team of Russia, again with 3:1. After the fifth round Bulgaria is first with 4 wins and 1 draw, followed by Romania (4 wins, 1 lost), and ... [via YahooNews] More >>