Sun, Nov 08 2009
Foreign lawyers, led by practitioners from the UK and Austria, are complaining to the European Commission about Bulgarian law that they say deprives them of a level playing field to practice law. The issue of The Sofia Echo published on November 14 2008 has the full details.
Elsewhere in the newspaper, there are reports on Bulgaria's domestic political dramas and in our regular coverage of the South East European region, an update on the situation in Bosnia.
In the business section, The Sofia Echo takes a look at Bulgaria's new market in free daily newspapers, outlines what is going on with mutual funds in the context of the global financial crisis, and has reports on the latest in the tourism and property industries. In a report especially written for The Sofia Echo, AUBG professor Tamara Todorova examines the question of the culpability of bank managers for the global financial crisis.
In the features section, Rory Parsons holds forth on the subject of statues, while film reviewer Pavel Ivanov has in his sights the latest James Bond 007 film, Quantum of Solace.
As ever, The Sofia Echo includes popular favourites such as venue and restaurant reviews, listings of what's on at the movies, on television and in the world of theatre and arts and our weekly social pages.
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Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
Health Minister: Influenza strain is not seasonal flu, it is swine flu. More than 100 000 Bulgarians are down with the H1N1 strain.