CABINET COMMITTED TO ROMA INTEGRATION IN BULGARIA- DEPUTY MINISTER

CABINET COMMITTED TO ROMA INTEGRATION IN BULGARIA- DEPUTY MINISTER
Sophia Echo - The Cabinet was seriously committed to solving the problems of the Roma community in Bulgaria, Deputy Labour and Social Policy Minister Baki Hiuseinov said. Hiuseinov took part in roundtable talks organised by non-governmental organisation Roma Union

LARGEST YACHT HARBOUR OPENS IN BULGARIA'S ST VLAS RESORT
Sophia Echo - The southern Black Sea resort of St Vlas will have the largest yacht harbour in Bulgaria. The harbour's capacity is 300 yachts, 50 of which in the royal category exceeding 25m in length, Bulgarian National Radio reported. Dinevi brothers are the

Bulgaria's Blagoevgrad Regional Court Closed over Bomb Threat
Sofia News Agency - The building of the regional court in Bulgaria's southern town of Blagoevgrad was closed Monday as an anonymous individual called to inform there is a bomb planted somewhere inside the premises. The staff was immediately evacuated and the police

TOURISM SECTOR IN BULGARIA LACKS 3500 WORKERS
Sophia Echo - Tourism sector in Bulgaria needs 3500 workers, Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce head Bozhidar Danev said. Danev said as quoted by Focus news agency that construction sector needs 3000 people and machine industry 1200. The lack of labour force led to

Fans Commemorate Chair, President of Bulgaria's Basketball Club CSKA
Sofia News Agency - Dozens of fans of basketball team CSKA gathered Monday on "Bulgarian Army" Stadium to pay tribute to the club's chairman Emil Cohen and its president Vladimir Fedyaev, who died in Sunday's hellish crash in western France. "You believed in our love

Rath Yatra organised in Bulgaria
Times of India - WARSAW: A Ratha Yatra (chariot festival) organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) along a main boulevard in the Bulgarian capital Sofia drew huge crowds. The colourful procession has become an annual feature in the

Bulgarians lift lid on Communist-era security files
International Herald Tribune - SOFIA: It is one of the reasons why Eastern Europe is known as "the Wild East." After 17 years of transition to a multiparty system, with new political and business elites in place in Bulgaria, nobody yet knows who did what for the secret police

Bulgaria, Romania Dodge Safeguard Clause - Report
Sofia News Agency - Bulgaria and Romania escape safeguard clauses, sanctioning them over their progress in the field of justice and the fight against corruption, but have to stay under EU Commission's watch till mid 2008, reports due to be published on 27 June state

Theft during Videnov Era Detrimental for Today's Bulgaria
Sofia News Agency - There is a connection, which exists in my mind between the wholesale theft of state assets in the Videnov era and the crumbling state of Bulgaria's schools and hospitals and the treatment of its pensioners today. It is more than 10 years since the

MEDICS IN BULGARIA SHOULD BE PATIENT, SIGNIFICANT WAGE INCREASE
Sophia Echo - Medics in Bulgaria should be patient, since significant wage increases would be possible in one or two years, Health Minister Radoslav Gaidarski told national private channel bTV. He addressed the demands of Pirogov emergency institute medics, who