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Bulgaria Boasts 22.2% Women in Government [May 17, 2012] Bulgaria ranks among the countries with over 20% of women in the government, outpacing a number of other European countries like Poland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia and Greece. Bulgaria has four women in a 17-strong cabinet (22.22%) - Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva, Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova, Environment ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria among Countries with Highest Fuel Price Hike [May 04, 2012] The largest increase of prices of fuel in Europe in the first quarter of 2012 has been registered in Hungary (15.6%), Poland (15.1%) and Bulgaria (14.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Faces Sanctions over Missing EU Waste Framework Deadline [Apr 26, 2012] The European Commission is referring Bulgaria to the EU Court of Justice for failing to meet the December 2010 deadline to transpose the EU's Waste Framework Directive into national law. Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are also referred to the Court for missing the deadline. On the recommendation of Environment Commissioner Janez Poto?nik, the European Commission is asking the Court to impose ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's National Team Slumps to New Record Low in FIFA Ranking [Apr 11, 2012] Bulgaria's national football team has reached the 96th spot in the FIFA/Coca Cola World Ranking, an all-time record low. The Balkan country has lost 11 spots since March and is now one place behind Georgia and one ahead of Vietnam. Bulgaria has played one game since new coach Lyuboslav Penev took over at the end of 2011, a 1:1 away draw in a friendly against Hungary at the end of February. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Rises Against EU Vine Liberalization [Mar 08, 2012] Bulgaria has declared its opposition to the liberalization of vine planting rights in the European Union that is scheduled to begin from 2016. Thus, the Balkan country has become the 15th EU member state to the planned liberalization after Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Austria, Romania, Luxembourg, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and Slovenia. In 2007, the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Hungary 1 Bulgaria 1 - international friendly result [Feb 29, 2012] Hungary 1 Bulgaria 1 - international friendly result: [via YahooNews] More >>

Bojinov strikes late to earn draw for Bulgaria [Feb 29, 2012] Bulgaria struck late to grab a 1-1 draw with Hungary in a friendly on Wednesday and ensure their new coach Luboslav Penev avoided defeat in his first match in charge. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Give Nod to Croatia?s EU Membership [Feb 17, 2012] Bulgaria's Parliament will ratify Croatia's EU accession treaty on Friday, becoming the third EU country after Hungary and Slovakia to do it. Croatia's Parliamentary Speaker Boris Sprem will visit Bulgaria on Friday at the invitation of her Bulgarian counterpart Tsetska Tsacheva in order to attend the ratification. Sprem will also meet with Bulgaria's new President Rosen Plevneliev. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Petrovs Out of Squad for Hungary Friendly [Feb 16, 2012] Bulgaria will go to the friendly game against Hungary later this month without two of its top players ? Stiliyan Petrov and Martin Petrov. Coach Lyuboslav Penev didn't spell out his arguments for dropping the Petrovs when announcing the line-up of the team on Wednesday. The move reminds of the recently dismissed former coach Lothar Matthaeus' tactics, who left out of the match against Belarus ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Helps EU Fail IMF Bailout Target [Dec 20, 2011] The European Union failed to table its EUR 200 B target to the International Monetary Fund to use as bailout for financially troubled members of the eurozone. EU member states, including all eurozone members, plus Denmark, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Sweden managed to gather some EUR 150 B for the rescue fund. Bulgaria was among the few countries - including also the UK, Romania and Hungary ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Proclaims All-out Support for Moldova's EU Integration [Dec 15, 2011] Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has joined forces with his counterparts from Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia on backing the EU integration of the Republic of Moldova. The foreign ministers of the seven Eastern EU member-states, Bulgaria included, have signed a letter to the EU institutions in support of Moldova's bid to join the EU. Should that ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ends Up with Bad Luck in UEFA World Cup 2014 Seedings [Jul 27, 2011] The Bulgarian national football team has hit rock bottom in qualifiers seedings, as it has now officially landed in pot 4 for the 2014 UEFA World Cup in Brazil. Initially it was thought that the squad will make it to pot 3, but FIFA's latest rankings, published Wednesday, revealed that it had dropped two spots down. On the other hand the rankings of Hungary, who is the European team just before ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Stable in FIFA Ranking [Jun 30, 2011] Bulgaria has kept its 46th position in FIFA's official national football teams ranking for men. The Balkan squad is now one place ahead of South Africa and one below Hungary. Bulgaria's worst ever ranking was in 2002, when it was 52nd, while the best was in 1995 ? 8th. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Sign on Nabucco Pipeline in Turkey on June 6 [May 23, 2011] Bulgaria's Bulgargaz, a daughter company of the Bulgarian Energy Holding, will participate in the official signing of an agreement on the Nabucco gas transit pipeline in Turkey on June 6 2011 Besides the Bulgarian company, the shareholders which will sign the agreement are OMV (Austria), BOTAS (Turkey), Transgaz (Romania), Mol Natural Gas (Hungary) and RWE (Germany) Each shareholder holds an ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Second in EU Dangerous Product Alerts [May 13, 2011] Bulgaria was the country that recorded that second highest number of notifications on non-food dangerous products in 2010 ? 192, according to the latest annual report on the bloc's alert system for non-food dangerous products, RAPEX. Germany topped the list with 204 notifications. The Balkan country is followed by Hungary with 191 and Cyprus with 178. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Finance Ministry Hopeful Moody's Will Up Bulgaria's Rating [May 04, 2011] Moody's Investors Service is currently reviewing Bulgaria's credit rating and is likely to boost it, the credit agency says in a regular report cited by the Bulgarian Finance Ministry. Bulgaria currently has a Moody's credit rating of Baa3, the same as Romania, Hungary, Croatia, and Latvia; on April 5, Moody's placed Bulgaria's Baa3 sovereign rating "on review for possible upgrade". The ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Visegrad Four Backs Bulgaria for Schengen - Ambassador [Feb 15, 2011] Bulgaria can rely on the support of the Visegrad Four countries ? the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia ? for its accession to the borderless Schengen Area. This was stated by Karol Mistrik, Ambassador of Slovakia in Sofia, cited by BNR, on Tuesday, just as the leaders of the V4 countries marked the 20th birthday of the Central European grouping in Bratislava. Slovakia currently ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Schengen Entry Delayed at Least till October - Report [Jan 26, 2011] The accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area has practically been delayed indefinitely, and the earliest date the two Balkan countries can hope to join is October, a report of Die Welt says. The German paper points out a statement of Hungary's Interior Minister Sandor Pinter before a committee of the European Parliament in Brussels made Tuesday saying Bulgaria's failure to ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Hungary, Bulgaria challenge Rehn on pensions [Dec 06, 2010] Struggling with budgetary pressure at home, Hungary and Bulgaria have nationalised their pre-funded pension schemes and excluded the cost of the reform from their public debt figures, opening a row with the European Commission. The EurActiv network reports. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Schengen Entry to Be Priority for Hungarian EU Presidency [Dec 03, 2010] Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen Agreement will be one of the priorities for Hungary's EU Presidency, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi. [via YahooNews] More >>