Bulgarians lose EU enthusiasm
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Bulgarians are impatient for results from their EU membership, five months after joining, Nick Thorpe reports.
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Bulgaria's president on Friday voiced doubts that the country's minority government is able to pursue consistent financial policies after Parliament twice altered its proposals of tax laws.
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While Bulgaria and Romania were celebrating the European Union's decision to grant them membership next year, other EU hopefuls, including Croatia and Turkey, look likely to suffer from the bloc's growing enlargement fatigue, analysts said.
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As Bulgaria prepares for EU entry, people queuing for visas outside the UK embassy doubt there will be an exodus of migrants.
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Politics: 17 November 2004, Wednesday. Bulgaria may fail to get a date to sign an accession accord with the European Union in December, the euro-affairs and foreign ministers warned.
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Bulgarians voted Sunday in municipal elections that attracted a record number of candidates given the scheduled influx of millions of euros in EU funding over the next few years.
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Bulgaria's parliament rejected a no-confidence motion on Friday against the Socialist-led government, accused by the opposition of failing to carry out sound healthcare reforms and uproot corruption in the sector.
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At the 12th session of the council of ministers of the OSCE member states held in Sofia, Bulgaria, Russia did not endorse adoption of the ultimate document.
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Bulgaria's government will float its 35% stake in the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company at the Sofia Stock Exchange, Deputy Prime Minister Lidia Shuleva said Thursday.
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Britain welcomed the green light from the European Union for Bulgaria and Romania to join the bloc in January, but warned it would only gradually open access to immigrants from those countries.
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Eurosceptics have given up hope of inflicting a big dent in the government's majority in Lisbon treaty vote
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Early voter turnout was low in a  referendum on Sunday in Macedonia, where nationalist opposition  parties want to stop a Western-inspired law giving ethnic  Albanians more power.
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Politics: 4 October 2004, Monday. The annual report on Bulgaria's progress prepared by the European Union (EU) criticizes Bulgaria's slow judicial reforms, according to a BBC report.
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Workers sandblast decades of muck and grime off Bulgaria's imposing Palace of Justice. It's a fitting metaphor for the country's mad scramble to clean up rampant corruption and crime before it joins the European Union on Jan. 1.
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"I am calling for calmness and a little bit more patience, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said. "We are taking and will be taking all steps to bring this whole case to an end as soon as possible and see our compatriots very soon on Bulgarian soil."  By Anna MudevaSOFIA  - Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who have spent more than eight years in jail, could be pardoned by the Balkan country's president if they are sent to Sofia under a 1984 prisoner exchange agreement with Libya.Following hectic diplomatic talks and payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the families of 460 HIV victims, Tripoli commuted the death sentences against the six to life imprisonment late on Tuesday, paving the way for their release. Read more
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poor Balkan country, already struggling to stay on track in its drive to join the European Union. just three percent ahead of the centrist alliance of Liberal and Democrat parties.
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Politics: 3 February 2005, Thursday. If the parliamentary crisis gains in speed and results in the formation of an interim cabinet, Bulgaria may appear unable to sign the EU accession treaty, according to EU ...