| © ConsiliumThe Council of EU finance ministers (ECOFIN) succeeded in agreeing on financial supervision in the EU. So far, it there was an agreement on the system of macro supervision, because there were a lot of differences regarding control on micro level. The Council agreed on draft regulations for the e ...
The Greek Eurobank dedicated its July edition of its economic forecasts and analyses to Bulgaria and the comparison to the Baltic states - a topic, regularly discussed in recent months, especially after Latvia was on the brink of a bankruptcy and several international institutions had to help it ...
| © euinsideBulgarian journalists had a strange event today in the Ministry of Finance. In a very small hall, called "Collegium" in the building, a large number of journalists, cameramen, photographers and many other people were trying to find an empty space so as to hear what explanations the former minist ...
By the 17th of July the budgetary deficit of Bulgaria was 202 mn lv (103.58 mn euro), while by the end of July the deficit was 372,4 mn lv (190.97 mn euro), the Ministry of Finance reported, adding that these data confirm the expectations for increased spending during the European and parliament ...
The Japanese Credit Rating Agency confirmed the credit rating of Bulgaria for long term debt in foreign currency BBB and for long term debt in local currency BBB+. The rating perspective also remains negative. One of the reasons for keeping this rate is the still very big current account deficit ...
The review of the budget of Bulgaria for 2009 is actually a preparatory political move for the budget for next year. This is the opinion of the economical analyst Georgi Stoev from the Industry Watch organisation, asked by euinside to comment on the report of the minister of finance Plamen Oresh ...
| © euinside92.1% is the implementation of the budget incomes from the beginning of the year, compared to the same period of last year. According to what the government has planned, the realisation is 39.7%. Last year the realisation for the same period was 51.6%. The tax revenues for the same period are 10 ...
| © euinsideUnexpectedly, the Bulgarian minister of finance in resign Plamen Oresharski will present at a press conference the data for the implementation of the budget for the first half of 2009. This will happen against the background of contradictory data as well as economic forecasts that the budget is ...
| © DPSThe strategy of the DPS (the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, perceived as representing the Turkish minority in Bulgaria) for development of national security and defense for the period 2009-2013, included in the election programme of the movement is poor, quite narrow and obviously is prepared ...
| © euinsideI left the press conferences of the first 3 parties after the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria with mixed feelings, where GERB (Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria) is leading convincingly with 100% of the votes counted but with still preliminary results. And the way many people ...
I am using the slogan from the campaign of the American president Barack Obama who managed to create the feeling that he was the bearer of change and the American citizens wanted change very much. But this is not the point. The exit-polls after the end of the voting for the parliamentary electio ...
| © Adelina Marini | www.euinside.euRaising taxes in a moment of crisis would be a big mistakes, warned leading Bulgarian economists at e meeting for the 12th anniversary of the introduction of the currency board in Bulgaria. "If the taxes are being raised in a moment when the labour market and the corporate sector is under great ...
| © euinsideIn 2001 for the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria 158 polling stations were opened abroad and now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened 271. This is what the deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs Ivaylo Kalfin explained, responding to the criticism, by his words - from the ...
The full list of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on the 5th of July was published on the Internet site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 18th of June and that is why the spokesperson of the Ministry has no reason to claim that the Bulgarians abroad had quite ...
| © euinsideBeyond political exorcism and campaigns, built upon "anti-Dogan", would not be wrong if we try calmly to analyse what the leader of the DPS (the Movement for rights and freedoms, perceived as the party, representing the Turkish minority in Bulgaria) Ahmed Dogan: "The MPs have no power. They have ...
The fact that big parties do not pay attention to foreign policy, defense and national security, even in their pre-election platforms, as well as the lack of a reasonable foreign policy in the last years, led to what happened - a small party like the DPS (the Movement for rights and freedoms, pe ...
| © Bulgarian GreensForeign policy is not one of the most attractive to the voter subjects but moments like the last few weeks after the presidential elections in Iran show that foreign policy is something that matters and it matters a lot. If we remind ourselves also the case with the Bulgarian medics in Libya whi ...
In 2005 just for 8 days 300 Bulgarians abroad registered in the Internet site, designated to the parliamentary vote and created by Andrey Nenov and Krasimir Gadzhokov. The idea of the then-site and its latest version is born then - in 2005 with main aim to facilitate the application for voting a ...
| © euinsideThe Bulgarian government continues to claim that there are no restrictions to the Bulgarians abroad to be able to vote in the Parliamentary elections. This is what the latest statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. But many Organisations of Bulgarians abroad claim that the requirement ...
Significant underperformance in planned EU funds absorption as well as bad discipline with regard to the government expenditures, are part of the reasons the general government surplus in
Bulgaria for 2008 to had been 1.5% of the GDP instead of the 3% planned in the budget, says the annual repor ...
| © Adelina Marini | www.euinside.euDays before the release from custody and 2 weeks before the general elections, the public, the politicians and the media have a new occupation - the "Galevi" brothers are going to become MPs. The uproar which fills newspapers and TV shows and is also a main issue for the politicians, but it is a ...
The parliamentary elections are approaching thus increasing the expectations who the winner would be and whether he really would be a winner. And if the American presidential elections, for the first time in many years, smelled of change and enthusiasm, in Bulgaria things are slightly different. ...
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| © Bulgarian GreensMy conversation with Andrey Kovachev, the leader of the youngest party - the Bulgarian Greens, was interrupted by a phone call. The coincidence was that the phone interrupted in exactly where we started discussing the elections programme of the party a little more in detail:
- The economy also h ...
| © euinsideMaybe you haven't heard yet but in the Bulgarian political space a new party appeared in the time before the European elections - the Bulgarian Greens. But do not mistake it with the Green party of the ex-mayor of Sofia Alexander Karakachanov. This is a party, created by a group of young enthusi ...
Obligatory local referenda on important for local communities issues, introduction of the direct democracy which should have control over appointments in the judicial system and the decisions of the authorities - in other words - return of the state to citizens. These are some of the ideas of th ...
| © OSCEThe OSCE (the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) at the end will send a small mission of observers for the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on the 5th of July. This is part of the conclusions in the report of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE ...
| © euinsideIn good mood, with great self-confidence and focused on the upcoming parliamentary elections, the prime minister Sergey Stanishev, together with his deputy prime ministers, presented a report of the work, done by the government for the last 4 years. The presentation took more than an hour and th ...
NDSV (The National Movement for Stability and Progress) also presented its economic platform today, which can be implemented AFTER the economic and financial crisis is over. According to the yellow party, which participates in 2 consecutive governments and in the first it had a majority (2001-20 ...
| © euinsideThe lack of money for active election campaign, provoked the first, although rudimentary, form of civil society in Bulgaria, to use its juvenile enthusiasm to appeal for support for the European elections on Sunday. This is the new formation the Greens which gathered in front the of the Council ...
It looks as if the "favourite newspaper of the people" "Trud" (Labour) has turned into an official newspaper since every statesman in the country, whenever he has something to say, does it through the paper. Today it's the minister of finance Plamen Oresharski's turn, although he is far from ela ...
| © euinsideGERB supports the construction of the second nuclear power station "Belene", said Vladimir Uruchev who presented the energy policy of the party as part of its programme for governance. Uruchev is at the moment an MEP and is heading for a second term in the European parliament with an expertise i ...
This time the government should be formed with the first mandate, says the Bulgarian president Gheorghi Parvanov. In an interview for the "Standard" daily newspaper he says: "In each case I think that it would be much better, not to say it is obligatory, not to repeat 2005 and the government to ...
In spite of the bad outlook for the budget for this year the government decided today to raise the pensions, as planned. Thus from the 1st of July the social pension for old age would increase from 92,53 levs (47 euro) to 100,86 levs (51 euro). The increase has been complied to the decision for ...
| © euinsideIf the economic situation doesn't change significantly in the mid-term Bulgaria will have to lead a more conservative fiscal policy as a reaction against the decreasing competitiveness, the minister of Finance Plamen Oresharski said for reporters. But he refused to comment on the latest statisti ...
| © GISThe economic crisis, which has been felt fully in Bulgaria now, is not the result of wrong economic or financial policy, claims the prime minister Sergey Stanishev. In the second part of his interview for the "Standart" daily the prime minister says that indeed the good financial-economic policy ...
| © OSCEThe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Elections which is part of the OSCE has received an invitation from the Bulgarian authorities to monitor the Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on the 5th of July. This is what the spokesman of the Office Jens-Hagen Eschenbaecher said in ...
The economic downturn in Bulgaria is the result of bad forecasts of the government, the lack of adequate and timely reaction and the underestimation of the scales of the crisis. This is the opinion shared by the economic experts of the main trade unions in Bulgaria and the Blue coalition. Mika Z ...
| © euinsideBulgaria should become a member of the Eurozone as soon as possible because the main macro economic balances and therefore all further events in the real economy, would be better guaranteed. This is the position of the economic team of the Blue coalition who met with representatives of the Union ...
As promised on the 5th of May, the Blue coalition starts today its first meeting with representatives of the unions to get a real estimation about the economy and the scales of the unemployment. The economic team of the coalition will be meeting today the unions, the press centre of the coalitio ...
Today the campaign for the European elections officially opens. It will be just 21 days after the Parliament decided to cut it just weeks before the elections. For 21 days the candidates for the European Parliament will have to convince us how important the EP is but probably will use the campai ...
The Blue coalition will present today its elections programme. This means that today we shall hear for the first time promises. The Blue coalition consists of the DSB (Democrats for Strong Bulgaria), United farmers of Anastasia Mozer, Radical-democratic party, political party "Nikola Petkov", th ...
At the moment there is some trouble with the revenue part of the budget but this has been foreseen in December 2008. That is why in the Budget for 2009 there are buffers which work at the moment and are much more than previous years. This is the official position of the Bulgarian Ministry of Fin ...
| © Ladislav TsvetkovThe leader of the Bulgarian opposition party DSB (Democrats for Strong Bulgaria) in a lecture at the University for National and World Economy said, quoting information of the Ministry of Finance, that there is only 4 bn levs in the exchequer of almost 22 bn which the country is to collect this ...
The economic team of the political party GERB (Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria) has updated its economic programme because of the constant decrease of the monetary reserve of the country. The team is worried that the government has spent 25 % more in comparison to the same peri ...
| © euinsideVery soon the payment of salaries and pensions will not be possible because the budget is about to fail. This is what the leaders of the Blue coalition said today, adding that they are ready to provide their ideas to the government so as to avoid a total catastrophe of the budget. The measures w ...
| © euinsideThe Blue coalition will start an actual estimation of the economic situation in Bulgaria as well as the situation on the labour market because, the coalition is convinced that the government is hiding the real data for the unemployment and the scale of the crisis. This was announced by the leade ...
The American ambassador to Bulgaria Nancy McEldowney said she was disappointed with the hasty changes in the election law in Bulgaria, She said this during her lecture in the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" about the strategic partnership between Bulgaria and the US. Ambassador McEldowne ...
Parliamentary elections will be on the 5th of July, decided the president Georghi Parvanov. For European parliament, the elections will be held on 7th of June.
A little more than a month before the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, the National Assembly demonstrated flexibility, cunning and speed and approved changes in the Legislation for election of MPs, published in the Official paper of Bulgaria on the 24th of April with the parliamentary electi ...
Although the election campaign hasn't started officially yet, political parties in Bulgaria have already begun to demonstrate part of their priorities. For example the leading party right now, according to the sociological researches, GERB (Citizens for european development of Bulgaria), invites ...
