EC report makes clear Bulgaria has a long way to go against organised crime, corruption
The message in the European Commission’s five-year report on Bulgaria’s progress towards European Union standards in justice and home affairs
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Year: 2012
Brussels places big question mark over Romania’s reforms
The European Commission has serious concerns about recent challenges to the rule of law by Romania’s parliament and government and
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Commentary: Bulgaria’s perils on the path to a print media law
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, annoyed at newspaper antics and alleging that some of his country’s journalists are “serving the
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Parts of Bulgarian capital city Sofia to be without hot water for two months
Parts of Bulgarian capital city Sofia will be without hot water for periods ranging from just more than two weeks
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75% of people in the world have access to mobile phones – World Bank
About three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone and the mobile communications story is moving
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Interpol Global Register, enabling checking for fakes, unveiled at Google Ideas INFO summit
People will able to use mobile phones or other devices with internet connections to check whether goods are fake or
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Political fallout from EC five-year report on Bulgaria’s anti-crime performance
Even before its official release on July 18 of the European Commission’s report on Bulgaria’s performance in the past five
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Fitch confirms Bulgaria’s long-term local, foreign currency ratings as stable
Rating agency Fitch has confirmed Bulgaria’s long-term foreign currency issuer default rating (IDR) at BBB- and its long-term local currency
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Bulgarian ruling party MP arrested for alleged influence-trading
Dimitar Avramov, an MP for Bulgaria’s centre-right ruling party GERB, has been arrested in connection with alleged trading in influence,
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