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11 June 2012, Issue 3405
by Novinite.com
Bulgaria's Daily Newspaper since 2001
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123019 articles
590 interviews
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Gazprom Could Pay for Bulgarian Section of South Stream
 Russian energy giant Gazprom could resort to financing the Bulgarian section of the South Stream natural gas pipeline, according to sources. read |
Spain to Get Up to EUR 100 B Euro Zone Bailout for Banking Sector
 Spain is going to receive a bailout loan from the rest of the euro zone in order to recapitalize its banking sector. read |
'Scandalous Tape' Fuels Media War in Bulgaria
 Animosity between the two major media groups in Bulgaria has intensified, resulting in a new wave of frontpage mudslinging publications. read |
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BULGARIA, ROMANIA 'MOST VULNERABLE TO GREXIT'
Bulgaria and Romania have direct exposure to Greece, which makes them most vulnerable among European emerging economies in the event of a Greek exit from the euro zone, according to the Wall Street Journal. Greek banks hold nearly a 30% of the Bulgarian banking market, a 20% share of the bank loans and one-third of all deposits. read more  BULGARIAN PUBLISHERS LODGE CORPBANK COMPLAINT WITH EU The Union of Publishers in Bulgaria said it has lodged a complaint with the European Commission against Corporate Commercial Bank, widely known as the government's darling. The complaint, lodged earlier this week, alleges liquidity support to Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), which is believed to finance the media group of mogul Irena Krasteva. read more BULGARIA'S 2012 CROPS TO BE SMALLER, BETTER - MINISTER The agricultural yield for 2012 in Bulgaria is expected to be smaller but of better quality than that for last year, commented Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture and Foods Miroslav Naydenov. "There will be no problems with the crops caused by heavy rains and hail during the spring, but the yield is going to be marginally smaller indeed," commented Naydenov Saturday in an interview for Darik Radio. read more AGRI MINISTER MULLS BULGARIAN ROSE ACT Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, announced plans to have experts at his institution working on a rose oil standard and a law for the Bulgarian rose. Naydenov says that unlike other agriculture sectors, such as fruit growing, the rose cultivation has profited from inclement weather with torrential rains. The expectations are for a larger and better quality crop. read more SPAIN TO GET UP TO EUR 100 B EURO ZONE BAILOUT FOR BANKING SECTOR Spain is going to receive a bailout loan from the rest of the euro zone in order to recapitalize its banking sector. The news emerged Saturday night after a two-hour video conference of the euro zone finance ministers, BNT reported. read more BULGARIAN FINMIN TO REWARD FISCALLY STABLE MUNICIPALITIES Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, has promised additional funding from Budget 2013 for municipalities with a stable fiscal state. The news was announced by Djankov during his visit of the Danube city of Silistra, explaining that there will be a ban to use the said additional funding for salary increases or bonuses. read more GAZPROM COULD PAY FOR BULGARIAN SECTION OF SOUTH STREAM Russian energy giant Gazprom could resort to financing the Bulgarian section of the South Stream natural gas pipeline, according to sources. Gazprom could make the move given worries voiced by the Bulgarian government that it will not be able to pay for the pipeline, writes Lenta.ru, quoting an anonymous sources. read more BULGARIA'S LARGEST BEACH RESORT OPENS FOR 'OPTIMISTIC' SEASON Bulgaria expects a 5% to 8% increase of foreign tourists during summer season 2012, according to the Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Delyan Dobrev. Dobrev attended Sunday the official opening of the season at Bulgaria's largest beach resort "Sunny Beach." read more EC TO ALLOW AGRICULTURAL FUNDS FOR TOBACCO GROWERS Although the EU will not have any express subsidies for tobacco growers, it will allow them to be financed under general agricultural subsidies, according to EC official Roger White. "From the point of view of the Commission, we cannot return to directly funding tobacco, but Bulgarian growers will continue after 2013 to be able to receive subsidies based on the areas they cultivate," White told BGNES news agency. read more EU AMBASSADOR: VISA REGIME LIBERALIZATION WITH GEORGIA UNDER WAY The EU and Georgia have started talks on liberalizing their visa regime, said EU ambassador to Georgia, Bulgarian Filip Dimitrov. In an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio Saturday, Dimitrov stated that this is a clear sign of appreciation on the part of the European Union. read more EX BULGARIAN EU COMMISSIONER OFFICIALLY FOUNDS OWN PARTY Bulgaria's former EU commissioner Meglena Kuneva officially founded her political party Sunday. The initiative committee of 67 people signed a founding declaration at the Sofia Rainbow Plaza hotel, the place where her civic movement Bulgaria for Citizens was launched. The new party inherited the civic movement's name. read more REELECTED BULGARIAN SOCIALIST LEADER PRESENTS NEW EXECUTIVE BOARD Interim PES leader and re-elected Bularian Socialist Party chair Sergey Stanishev is presenting Saturday his proposals for a new Executive Board of the Bulgarian Socialists. "There is one single goal for our party - to win the next parliamentary elections in Bulgaria," stated Stanishev at Saturday's closed sitting of the BSP National Council. read more BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT EXHIBIT HONORS 'APOSTLE OF FREEDOM' Bulgaria's Parliament is holding Sunday and open doors day with the building open for visitors between 11 am and 5 pm. The initiative is part of the program to honor the 175th anniversary of the birth of the all-time greatest Bulgarian Vasil Levski, dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, who was born on July 18 1837. read more 'SCANDALOUS TAPE' FUELS MEDIA WAR IN BULGARIA Animosity between the two major media groups in Bulgaria has intensified, resulting in a new wave of frontpage mudslinging publications. A scandalous taped recording, implicating publisher of Trud and 24 Hours dailies and chairman of the Union of Publishers in Bulgaria Lyubomir Pavlov, in trading in influence, was published on Friday in Presa, a newspaper from the arch enemy group. read more BULGARIA JUSTICE MINISTRY AGREES TO PRISON WORKERS' DEMANDS The Bulgarian Ministry of Justice issued a statement that the state budget for 2013 will include funds to satisfy demands by workers in Bulgaria's prisons, who went out on protest Sunday. Several hundred prison guards assembled in front of the Justice Ministry in central Sofia to demand better working conditions and higher payment. read more BULGARIAN PRISON GUARDS RALLY AGAINST DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS Bulgarian prison guards and employees are staging a protest rally in downtown Sofia Sunday. The protest will be held at 1 pm in front of the building of the Justice Ministry, the Confederation of the Independent Syndicates in Bulgaria, KNSB, announced. read more WOMAN DIES CROSSING BULGARIA HIGHWAY, CHILD SURVIVES A woman has perished after a seemingly random attempt to cross Bulgaria's Trakiya Highway overnight, with her baby in a baby-carriage, with the kid miraculously surviving. The 27-year-old from Saedinenie in central southern Bulgaria attempted the extremely dangerous and forbidden crossing around 10 pm Saturday, in darkness and heavy traffic. read more UK TOURIST IN BULGARIA FOUND SEVERELY INJURED, LIFE IN DANGER A UK tourist has been hospitalized in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas, after being discovered unconscious and with heavy injuries. The British male of undisclosed age was discovered early in the morning, lying on the ground just next to the outside emergency staircase of the Pomorie Hotel in Bulgaria's Sunny Beach resort, where he was staying. read more CASH-STRAPPED BULGARIA GIVES UP HORO-DANCE GUINNESS BID More than 50 000 Bulgarians, who were expected this weekend to dance together holding hands in an attempt to enter the Guinness World Records, were forced to give up their dream over shortage of funds. The impressive chain-like horo-dance was to be staged on Sunday in the coastal town of Varna under the sounds of Bulgarian traditional music, but the number of sponsors who pledged financial support was far from enough. read more BULGARIAN ARMY SECURES AREA OF BLASTED AMMO DEPOT A modular group for the detonation and destruction of unexploded ammunition from military unit 22 220 in the city of Sliven is securing Sunday the area of the blast near the Petolachkata junction in southeastern Bulgaria. The information was announced by the Defense Ministry. read more 4.5-DEGREE QUAKE FELT IN NORTHERN ITALY A 4.5 Richter degree magnitude earthquake has been registered Saturday in Northern Italy, the site of destructive tremors during the past weeks. Saturday's quake has been felt by residents of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions of Italy. read more BULGARIAN EXHIBIT ON BALKAN WARS, WWI VISITS PARIS The Bulgarian National Museum of Military History is staging in Paris an art exhibition entitled "Interpretations of the 1912-1918 Wars" at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in the French capital. The exhibit, to be officially opened Monday, features 55 paintings of Bulgarian artists of the period, depicting the efforts and toils of the wars Bulgaria led in the period. read more SPAIN DRAW ITALY IN TOUGH EURO 2012 GROUP C MATCH World and European champions Spain have drawn Italy 1:1 in a tough match in Group C at Euro 2012. Antonio Di Natale scored for Italy in the 60th minute, coming straight off the substitutes` bench to put his side ahead. read more ILL STILIYAN PETROV REMAINS ASTON VILLA'S CAPTAIN Bulgarian footballer Stiliyan Petrov, who is fighting a severe case of leukaemia, remains the captain of Aston Villa, announced new manager Paul Lambert. End of March, it was announced that Petrov, endearingly called by fans "Stan," is diagnosed with the severe illness and will have to step away from active sports life. read more CROATIA COME AHEAD IN EURO 2012 GROUP C AFTER BEATING IRELAND Croatia's national football team has scored a 3:1 win against Ireland in Euro 2012 Group C. Thus, the Balkan nation has come ahead in the group ranking, after earlier on Sunday the other two teams in the group, Italy and Spain, ended their match in a draw. read more GERMANY WIN NARROW 1:0 OVER PORTUGAL IN EURO 2012 GROUP B Germany, one of the main favorites to win Euro 2012, has scored its first victory at the championship in a clash against Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal. Germany and Portugal were 0-0 at halftime in their Group B opener at the European Championship on Saturday in a match, which took place in Lviv, Ukraine. read more DENMARK BEAT NETHERLANDS IN EURO 2012 GROUP B MATCH Denmark's national football team beat the Netherlands 0:1 in the two teams' first match in the group phase at UEFA Euro 2012. In what is considered by many to be a surprise, Denmark stole the win from one of the Euro 2012 favorites, the Netherlands. read more LOTHAR MATTHAEUS TIPS GERMANY TO WIN EURO 2012 Bulgaria's former national football team coach Lothar Matthaeus believes Germany are the strong favorites to win Euro 2012. "I am saying this not just because I am German. Germany coach Joachim Loew manages a young and balanced team, which has piled a lot of experience. This is that we lacked two years ago at the World Championship in South Africa – experience," the former coach of the Bulgarian team wrote in a commentary for 24 Hours daily. read more BULGARIA'S PIRONKOVA 39TH IN WTA RANKING AFTER ROLAND GARROS Bulgaria's best female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova is to climb to the 39th place in the WTA ranking following her single win at the Roland Garros torunament. The 24-year-old, who played the top tournament for the second time in her carrer, will climb two places up in the ranking Monday, with a total of 1401 points. read more STOICHKOV STANDS BY BULGARIA'S LITEX LOVECH - REPORT The stint of Bulgaria's biggest football star and former Barcelona striker Hristo Stoichkov as coach of former champions Litex Lovech may not turn out to be that short-lived. Stoichkov will remain at the helm of Litex Lovech, the Bulgarian News Agency reported, citing sources from the club and denying reports he may be appointed as coach of Turkish Super League team Besiktas. read more BRAZIL-JAILED BULGARIAN CHAMP: NO PROOF OF MY GUILT! Bulgaria's former Olympic weightlifting champion Galabin Boevski, who was convicted in Brazil of international drug trafficking, has fervently claimed innocence in a rare media statement. "I am a man, who has been building his reputation for more than 20 years. With hard labor and consistently. I have no reason to spoil everything in this way," reads Boevski's statement, circulated to the media by his wife Krassimira. read more BULGARIAN OLIGARCH'S BAIL ALMOST HALVED The Bulgarian court decided to reduce the bail of famous businessman Grisha Ganchev from BGN 500,000 to BGN 300,000. End of May Ganchev was arrested and charged with participating in an organized crime network engaged in massive tax evasion. read more RUSSIA, US FIND COMMON POINTS FOR PEACEFUL SOLUTION IN SYRIA Russia and the USA have reached many areas of agreement regarding the peaceful resolution of the ongoing conflict in Syria, after Russo-American consultations held in Moscow. Russian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Gennady Gatilov described the talks as "useful" and stated the two great countries found "a lot of common points during the talks." read more ISRAEL VICE-PM CRIES FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA Israeli Vice-PM Shaul Mofaz has renewed the calls of his country for an international military intervention to topple the regime of Syria President Bashar Al-Assad. In what is perceived as an unusually sharp statement, Mofaz accused the Syrian regime of a "genocide" against its own people, and called on the international community not to remain passive. read more SENTENCED MUBARAK REPORTED TO BE IN 'CRITICAL' CONDITION The life of ousted Egypt President Hosni Mubarak is reported to be in danger, after he suffered a health breakdown upon receiving a life sentence June 2. According to reports, Mubarak periodically lapses into unconsciousness in his hospital bed at the Torah prison in Cairo, say agencies Sunday. read more 2 ATTACKS AGAINST CHURCHES KILL DOZENS IN NIGERIA Two separate attacks carried out in churches during Sunday service in Nigeria are feared to have caused the deaths of dozens. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a church in the central city of Jos on Sunday, while gunmen attacked another church in Biu in the country's northeast, writes Al Jazeera. read more KEY KENYAN MINISTER DIES IN CHOPPER CRASH The Minister of Internal Security and Local Administration of Kenya, George Saitoti, has been killed in a helicopter crash. bTV reports Sunday, citing local officials, that Saitoti and his deputy, Orwa Ojode, died when the aircraft went down in a forest west of the capital Nairobi. The helicopter burst into flames as it hit the ground. read more SPANISH FAN FOUND MURDERED IN UKRAINE A Spanish football supporter has reportedly been found murdered in Ukraine. The unnamed 46-year-old man had been holidaying in the small town of Makeyevka in the Donetsk region ahead of Euro 2012. read more SMILING DUKE OF EDINBURGH LEAVES HOSPITAL Prince Philip has left hospital after a five-night stay receiving treatment for a bladder infection, BBC reported. Smiling, he waved to well-wishers and shook hands with staff, a day before his 91st birthday on Sunday. read more BULGARIA'S TRUSTED POLITICIANS FROM BULGARIA'S TRUSTED POLLS In the midst of earthquakes, floods, and the latest deadly ammo depot chain explosion, the newly-released poll of the National Center for Study of Public Opinion (NZIOM) went almost unnoticed despite, to put it mildly, some quite strange results. According to the poll, the Mayor of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, has emerged ahead in approval ratings, beating Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and President, Rosen Plevneliev. read more |
