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27 April 2012, Issue 3374
by Novinite.com
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Bulgaria Faces Sanctions over Missing EU Waste Framework Deadline
 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. read |
Hungary’s MOL Ready to Sell Stake in Nabucco Project
 Hungarian energy company MOL is ready to sell its stake in the Nabucco natural gas pipeline project, it was made clear on Thursday. read |
Bulgaria to Become 1st EU Country to Receive Azeri Gas
 Bulgaria will become the first EU country to receive gas from Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has told Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. read |
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MIG 29 CRASH WRECKS LARGEST BULGARIAN, US AIR FORCE TRAINING
The Bulgarian Air Force has terminated all of its flights as a result of Thursday's crash in which a Bulgarian MiG 29 fighter jet went down during joint drills with the US Air Force, Defense Minister Anyu Angelov announced. Thus, Thursday's incident has ruined the Thracian Star 2012 military exercise, which was supposed to last until May 11, and to boost substantially the interoperability between Bulgarian and US forces. read more 
BUSINESS WAR, 'CORPORATE JOURNALISM' PLAGUE BULGARIAN MEDIA, SEEMO MISSION FINDS A conflict between the two largest press business groups in Bulgaria as well as "corporate journalism" undermines the credibility of Bulgarian media, the South and East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO) has concluded in a report. The Vienna-based South and East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO) conducted a mission to Sofia, Bulgaria, from April 1 to 4, 2012, in order to assess the latest media developments in the light of changed media ownership and reports of pressure on media. read more BULGARIA'S JAMMED CAPITAL STARTS BUILDING 3RD OVERPASS Sofia Municipality has launched the construction of a third overpass that is supposed to help relieve the tough street traffic situation in the city. On Thursday, the local authorities kicked off the construction of the overpass at the crossing of the Prof. Ivan Geshov Blvd and St. Georgi Sofiyski Street, Deputy Mayor in charge of transport Lyubomir Hristov announced. read more BULGARIA ETHNIC TURKS URGE IMF DEAL, CITE LOOMING RECESSION Bulgaria's opposition ethnic Turkish party has joined socialists in calling for an urgent deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), saying the country badly needs it. "It is clear that Bulgaria's economy is about to enter recession. An agreement with the IMF, if not a panacea, will assure international financial markets that the country is stable," Yordan Tsonev, an economist and Deputy Chair of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party, told Darik radio on Thursday. read more HUNGARY�S MOL READY TO SELL STAKE IN NABUCCO PROJECT Hungarian energy company MOL is ready to sell its stake in the Nabucco natural gas pipeline project, it was made clear on Thursday. "We have signalled that we are ready to sell our shares if necessary...we merely had to send a very very strong signal now that we are not willing to finance this any longer," MOL CEO Zsolt Hernadi told reporters on Thursday. read more BULGARIA FORMS WORKING GROUP TO BUILT 7TH REACTOR AT KOZLODUY NPP Bulgaria's government will be setting up a working group to be in charge of the construction of Unit 7 at the country's only existing nuclear power plant in the Danube town of Kozloduy. This has been made clear by Deputy Economy and Energy Minister Valentin Nikolov, who spoke after the opening of an energy forum for Bulgaria and Romania, as cited by BNR. read more BULGARIA TO BECOME 1ST EU COUNTRY TO RECEIVE AZERI GAS Bulgaria will become the first EU country to receive gas from Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has told Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. Borisov and Aliev met in Baku on Thursday. They discussed the two countries' cooperation in various sectors, including tourism, agriculture, IT and trade. read more 
INITIATIVE COMMITTEE CALLS FOR REVIVAL OF BULGARIA'S ABANDONED N-PLANT A total of 15 people have formed a committee in Bulgaria that will launch a petition for a referendum on the fate of the abandoned Belene Nuclear Power Plant project. Sergey Stanishev, leader of left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), BSP lawmakers Rumen Ovcharov and Yanaki Stoilov, Belene Mayor Petar Dulev, two former directors of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant, as well as several professors and academicians are among the committee's members. read more BULGARIA PM HEADS FOR AZERBAIJAN TO TALK INVESTMENTS, GAS SUPPLIES Prime Minister Boyko Borisov sets out Thursday for an official two-day visit to Azerbaijan. During his stay, Borisov will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the Prime Minister Artur Rasizade. read more PILOTS SOUND AFTER MIG 29 CRASH DURING BULGARIAN-US AIR FORCE TRAINING The two Bulgarian pilots who bailed out before their MiG 29 fighter jet crashed during the Thracian Star 2012 exercise of the Bulgarian and US Air Forces are in a good condition, Bulgaria's Defense Minister Anyu Angelov announced. The Bulgarian MiG-29 aircraft plummeted into a river earlier on Thursday between the southern villages of Tsarimir and Golyam Chardak near Plovdiv. read more BULGARIAN DEFENSE MIN TO ADDRESS PARLIAMENT OVER FIGHTER JET CRASH Bulgarian Defense Minister Anyu Angelov has been asked to address the country's Parliament regarding Thursday's incident in which a MiG 29 fighter jet crashed. The aircraft plummeted into a river earlier on Thursday between the southern villages of Tsarimir and Golyam Chardak near Plovdiv. The incident took place the Thracian Star 2012 exercise of the Bulgarian and US Air Forces. read more MIG-29 AIRCRAFT DROPS IN SOUTHERN BULGARIA DURING TRAINING A military MiG-29 aircraft has plummeted into a river between the southern villages of Tsarimir and Golyam Chardak near Plovdiv. The two pilots catapulted themselves out of the aircraft and have already returned to the Graf Ignatievo Air Base. read more BULGARIA FACES SANCTIONS OVER MISSING EU WASTE FRAMEWORK DEADLINE 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. read more EC: BULGARIA MUST APPLY RULES ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICRO-ORGANISMS The European Commission has requested that Bulgaria implement "correctly" EU rules about genetically modified micro-organisms. The EC asked Bulgaria Thursday to ensure the correct implementation of Directive 2009/41/EC on activities around genetically modified micro-organisms such as when they are cultured, stored, transported, destroyed or used in any other way. read more RIGHTIST MEPS ALERT BARROSO ABOUT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST EASTERN EUROPE The Heads of Delegation of the European People's Party Group's 10 Central and Eastern European Member States have sent an open letter to José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, over discrimination against Eastern Europe. The rightist Members of the European Parliament from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia have expressed their deep concern regarding "the numerous discriminatory actions carried out against Central and Eastern European citizens." read more BULGARIA'S PRESIDENT, GOVT MOVE TO RELOCATE INSTITUTIONS TO PROVINCES Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev has supported an initiative of Finance Minister Simeon Djankov to move the headquarters of some state institutions outside of the capital Sofia. According to Djankov's idea, seven state agencies will be moved to other Bulgarian cities. If this "pilot" project is successful, some ministries will be sent to the provinces, too. read more BULGARIA'S NEW NATIONALIST FORMATION ENDS UP STILLBORN Bulgaria's "National Democratic Party", which has been initiated by MEP Dimitar Stoyanov and his mother Kapka Siderova, has ended up still born. The party came up after Stoyanov and his mother split off from the leader of the major Bulgarian national party Ataka,Volen Siderov, following a scandal, in which Siderov, Stoyanov's stepfather, was said to be cheating on his mother with an Ataka MP, Denitsa Gadzeva (who herself was Stoyanov's high school girlfriend). read more BULGARIAN PM EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED WITH ANTI-CORRUPTION UNIT'S WORK Bulgarian Prime Minister has expressed strong criticism towards the work of the country's Center for Prevention of Organized Crime and Corruption (BORKOR). "I am utterly disappointed with the work of that unit," Borisov declared at the latest Cabinet sitting. read more 10 FAMILIES TO GET NEW HOMES IN FLOOD-HIT BULGARIAN VILLAGE The construction of the first batch of ten houses in the flood-hit southern Bulgarian village of Biser will start Thursday. The construction costs amount to BGN 74 000 per house of 108 square meters and will be supplied from the donations raised during the charity campaign of the Bulgarian Red Cross. read more BENFICA SAID TO EYE BULGARIAâ��S NATIONAL GOALIE Portuguese giants Benfica are reportedly interested in snapping up Bulgarian international goalkeeper Nikolay Mihaylov, who currently plays for Dutch team Twente. Benfica representatives were in the Netherlands last week to negotiate Mihaylov's potential transfer, according to Voetbal International. read more BULGARIAN ROMA CLAN CHIEF GETS PUBLIC REPRIMAND FOR OBSCENE BEHAVIOR The Asenovgrad Regional Court has sentenced Roma clan leader Kiril Rashkov, aka Tsar Kiro, to a year and two months of imprisonment and a public reprimand for cursing and flicking off a crowd on December 8, 2011. The public reprimand will be read out loud by the Mayor of Katunitsa in front of local villagers. read more 2 IRISH GANG MEMBERS ARRESTED IN BULGARIA'S SUNNY BEACH Two members of a major organized crime group in the Irish city of Limerick have been arrested in Bulgaria's Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach. The two were arrested in an apartment after Bulgarian police was notified about the matter by the Garda Síochána (Ireland's Police Service), according to reports of Irish Daily The Irish Times. read more BULGARIAN ATM FRAUD GANG BUSTED IN SPAIN A total of ten Bulgarian nationals, eight men and two women, have been nabbed by Spanish police authorities for dealing with ATM draining in the Spanish province of Alicante. The Bulgarian gang installed fake keyboards and miniature cameras at ATM devices, thus stealing PINs. read more FUEL THEFTS DRAIN BULGARIA'S RAILWAY FREIGHT SERVICES OF BGN 2 M PER YEAR Authorities have seized 150 liters of stolen fuel following surprise checks at the Iliyantsi railway station in Sofia. An unannounced check conducted at around 4 a.m. on Thursday at the staff respite room for employees of BDZ Freight Services yielded 150 liters of fuel, according to reports of Holding Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) EAD. read more BULGARIA EX-AGRICULTURE FUND HEAD FACES 8 YEARS IN JAIL The indictment against Kalina Ilieva, the notorious former head of Bulgaria's Agriculture Fund, who was charged with forging her university diploma, will be tabled in days. Ilieva faces up to eight years in prison over fake master's degree diploma scandal. read more BULGARIAN ROMA CLAN LEADER FACES HOOLIGANISM TRIAL The Asenovgrad Regional Court will hear the case against Roma clan leader Kiril Rashkov, aka Tsar Kiro, on hooliganism charges. Following a court sitting during which the magistrates refused to change Rashkov's remand measure to a lighter one, he flicked the finger at the crowd that had gathered in front of the building. read more HOW ASTON VILLA'S STILIYAN PETROV ROSE FROM POVERTY TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE Click here to read the story: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138845 UKRAINE LAUNCHES CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SARCOPHAGUS AROUND CHERNOBYL REACTOR Ukraine will launch Thursday the construction of a new sarcophagus around the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl plant. The step aims to secure the zone around the nuclear power station, which is still characterized by high radiation. read more RUSSIA'S 'PUSSY RIOT' ANTI-PUTIN PROTEST 'NOT ILLEGAL' A police inquiry has ruled that an anti-Putin protest by the scandalous all-female Russian punk group Pussy Riot inside Moscow's main cathedral did not constitute a criminal action, a lawyer has said. "The inquiry failed to find in the actions of persons at the Christ the Savior Cathedral motives of hatred and hostility," Violetta Volkova, a lawyer for suspect Yekaterina Samutsevich, wrote on her Twitter account late on Wednesday, as cited by RIA Novosti. read more GERMAN PRESIDENT CANCELS UKRAINE VISIT OVER TYMOSHENKO'S TREATMENT German President Joachim Gauck has canceled a visit to Ukraine next month, out of concern for the health and treatment of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko, a spokesperson has announced. Gauck, a former human rights activist from communist East Germany, had been due to attend a gathering of central European heads of state in the Black Sea resort of Yalta in mid-May. read more THOSANDS SING OUT AGAINST NORWEGIAN MASS MURDERER Over 40 000 people gathered in Oslo on Thursday to sing a song hated by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. The song in question is called Barn av regnbuen (Children of the Rainbow), based on Pete Seeger's My Rainbow Race. read more |
