Sat, Nov 21 2009

Police officer among group arrested; group said to have been smuggling from Albania to Western Europe. Reports say Russian mafia involved.
A space cake (a marijuana filled cake) that 31-year old Bulgarian V.C. consumed in a coffee shop in Amsterdam was the cause of his disruptive and violent behaviour on a plane to London on June 29, Dutch prosecutors told the court in The Netherlands on October 10, Dutch daily Parool reported.
While Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev was receiving European Commission (EC) vice-president Guenther Verheugen on August 27, reporters waiting outside the Cabinet building found a marijuana plant in one of the flowerpots next to the building. After some investigation, the Government's press service published a statement which said: "We are extremely grateful to our media colleagues who discovered a 40cm
One third of Bulgarian school children in the 9th to 12th grade have at least once tried narcotics in the past year. Compared to data from 2003, the number of school children who have tried some kind of drug, has increased with 6 per cent, Momchil Vasilev of the head of the National Focus Centre said. Between 35 and 40 000 school children have tried cannabis in the past 30 days. Around 15 to 20 000 of them use on a regular basis, Vasilev said.
Welcomed by the UK government, France and Germany, as well as the US, the naming of Belgium’s Herman van Rompuy as European Council President and Catherine Ashton as foreign policy chief has caused misgivings in some circles, including Turkey which believes that Van Rompuy will oppose Turkish membership of the bloc.
The dinner meeting of EU leaders to decide on the European Council President and the bloc’s new foreign minister and head of secretariat could take a few hours or all night, says host Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden’s prime minister.
Russia and the European Union have agreed on an early warning system if another natural gas cutoff looms. Some say that Bulgaria, among other countries hard-hit by the January 2009 crisis, is now better prepared. Not everyone is convinced.
Five Bulgarian films screened at the World Film Festival in Bangkok.
A complicated game, played partly in the dark, and with elements of everything from poker to tug ‘o war – that’s the way Europe’s leaders will come up with its new European Council President, foreign minister and European Commission.
I don't know what is your problem. This is a non-violent crime. IMO you are saying without thinking
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it is really boring to read all over again about Bulgarians commiting different crimes abroad ... what else can this nation do except being involved in pickpocketing and drug smugling all over the world ?