Sofia Forum Seeks Ways to Tackle Crime in South-Eastern Europe
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Politics: 11 November 2004, Thursday. Organized crime groups in Bulgaria are not strong enough to threaten the economic and financial stability of the country, Bulgaria's Parliamentary Speaker Ognian Gerdzhikov ...
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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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BELGRADE, Aug 18 (IPS) - Countries across the Balkans are boosting tourism  to build recovery from communism or the wars that broke former  Yugoslavia.
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Lifestyle: 28 September 2004, Tuesday. Members of the International Women's Club in Sofia called on companies and organizations to back their efforts in raising public awareness for prevention and cure of ...
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Preserving the digital crime scene poses one of the biggest challenges in the global fight against cybercrime, said participants this week at a major international conference on fighting Internet-based crime.
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Young political leaders from six Balkan countries wrapped up in Sofia Saturday a series of seminars and discussions aimed to improve their skills and enhance dialogue and mutual understanding in the once ...
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Europe's leading security organization appealed for calm Sunday in Serbia's restive south after Serb soldiers fatally shot an ethnic Albanian youth, raising tensions in the region.
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Senior European Union officials are visiting the Balkans to discuss progress towards EU accession.
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Balkan leaders on Friday agreed that strengthening regional dialogue was the only way to prevent the return of ethnic violence that wracked the region in the 1990s
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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 recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled "Dealing with the past in ex-Yugoslavia." Although the rest of post-communist Europe confronted such questions a decade ago, the Balkan wars of the ...
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BELGRADE, Aug 18  (IPS) - Countries across the Balkans are boosting tourism  to build recovery from communism  or the wars that broke former  Yugoslavia.
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Formerly communist Bulgaria, now knocking at the door of the EU, keeps stumbling over a complex and allegedly corrupt judicial system, while criminal circles in the country engage in gangland score-settling killings.
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Politics: 7 September 2004, Tuesday. Bulgaria's Euro-affairs Minister Meglena Kuneva leaves for the Hague today to take part in an international conference on European Values Policies.
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The role soil plays in solving global crime is due to be discussed by international forensic experts in Edinburgh.
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Bulgarian parliament speaker Ognian Guerdjikov called on European Union legislatures to help save five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a scandal over AIDS-tainted blood.
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Politics: 27 September 2004, Monday. Experts from EU Resources Management in the Bulgarian Finance Ministry and the Dutch Economic Institute ECORYS gathered around a Second Round Table for Partnership in Sofia ...