Gang Wars Could Frustrate Bulgaria's EU Hopes
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The Bulgarian government fears that a failure to end gang wars and reform an inefficient justice system will sink the country's hopes of joining the European Union in 2007, a minister acknowledged Tuesday.
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Papers in Ukraine and neighbouring countries fear the Ukrainian political crisis could descend into violence.
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Bulgaria and Romania may join the EU as early as January but tough tests lie ahead, a draft report suggests.
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The European Union regrets Russia's refusal to extradite a murder suspect to Britain but wants to prevent the standoff further damaging already strained EU-Russia relations, an EU presidency official said on Friday.
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Politics: 5 October 2004, Tuesday. The ministries of interior of Macedonia and Bulgaria have established a hot telephone line for improving the bilateral work in the fight against organized crime.
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Top news: 28 September 2004, Tuesday. Envoys of Europe's big business recommended Tuesday for Bulgaria to speed up its reforms en route to European Union membership.
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The European Union will seek Monday to set aside divisions and examine ways to end the impasse over Kosovo&#39;s future status after Russia blocked attempts to put the province on the road to independence.
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Business: 10 October 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg expressed his discontent with the condition of Bulgarian Kalotina checkpoint on the Serbian border.
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WIESBADEN, Germany  - The European Union has a duty to ensure stability in the Balkans a decade after the ethnic wars of the 1990s and offer its peoples the hope of EU membership, the bloc's foreign policy chief said on Thursday.
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European Union leaders already bicker about the future. At a summit meeting opening Thursday, even the past is bound to cause discord.Comment
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 18 Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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The European Union threw its weight behind Britain on Wednesday in a row with Russia over its refusal to extradite a man suspected of killing a former KGB agent in London last year.
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Bulgaria's foreign minister said Friday that negotiations were taking place with the families of Libyan children with HIV, but he cautioned that a deal to allow the release of six medics convicted of infecting them was far from being reached.
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PRAGUE, Sep 25 (IPS) - The case of an ethnic Hungarian student who claims  to have been attacked by Slovak xenophobes has come to symbolise  the persistent clashes that strain relations between two of the  EU (European Union)'s most unfriendly neighbours.
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Bulgaria and Romania received an almost grudging green light to join next January.
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BUCHAREST, Aug 30 (IPS) - Recent violent episodes involving Roma in Bulgaria  emphasise the deep prejudice against this ethnic group, as well  as politicians' intention to turn anti-Roma feelings into  electoral gains.
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The European Commission was to invite Bulgaria and Romania to join the European Union in January, amid warnings the bloc must tackle institutional reforms before further expansion.