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One of the most fascinating and controversial scientific experiments, involving the largest particle accelerator ever built, was scheduled to be held in Switzerland on September 10 2008 - and of the team of more than 6000 scientists involved, 100 are from Bulgaria. In a story especially written for The Sofia Echo published on September 12, science correspondent Bozhidar Stefanov explains the meaning of the experiments involving the "God particle".
This week's issue of The Sofia Echo, due August 8, will include a three-page reading room dedicated to the history of protestantism in Bulgaria. Anastasia Vassieva delves into the subject. In the news section, Petar Kostadinov presents the results of a survey that describes Bulgarian SMEs as having lost interest in applying for European Union funding. And The Sofia Echo presents a brief look at
A special feature, dedicated to the Beijing 2008 Olympics, will be only one of the highlights of Issue 31 of The Sofia Echo, coming out on August 1. The four-page supplement delves into the Olympic industry and trivia, hosts an interview with Boris Georgiev - the first Bulgarian athlete ever to win an Olympic medal - and includes the various places to watch the Olympics in Sofia, among others. On the domestic front,
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev has been giving interviews to leading international media to prepare the ground for what is expected to be a sharply critical report on Bulgaria by the European Commission. In The Sofia Echo published on June 13, Petar Kostadinov outlines Stanishev's approach to what is certain to be a vexed political issue within Bulgaria and throughout the EU, with the big question being whether the EC will penalise Bulgaria for inadequacy in the fight against organised crime and corruption.
Bulgaria's recently-appointed Defence Minister Nikolai Tsonev has ordered a halt to the practice of swopping real estate owned by the ministry, an April 29 2008 media statement said. The ministry's website said that the ministry would investigate the status of all the ministry's structures and real estate owned by them. Tsonev succeeded Vesselin Bliznakov on April 22 2008. Bulgarian-language media said at the time that one reason that Bliznakov was dismissed was alleged lack of transparency in transactions involving defence ministry real estate.
Interior Minister Roumen Petkov verified what his political rivals have been claiming for months. He confirmed that he had a number of meetings and conversations with controversial businessmen under investigation by the ministry. On March 24, Petkov told Bulgarian National Radio (BNR): "I've had phone calls and met people, whom I knew the ministry had used special intelligence methods against. I did
To the annoyance of its neighbour Serbia, Bulgaria joined with Hungary and Croatia in a joint statement opening the way for formal recognition of Kosovo as an independent state. In its latest issue, The Sofia Echo records the first reactions. Elsewhere in the issue, which hits the streets on March 21, The Sofia Echo's Petar Kostadinov tells the story of the latest episode in the saga of Bulgaria's troubles in child care, as
The partner in the tripartite ruling coalition, the National Movement for Stability and Progress (NMSP), finally managed to regain the top seat in one of the most important committees in Parliament. On February 20, NMSP MP Mincho Spassov was elected chairperson of the internal security and public order committee, entitled to summon to hearings the heads of Bulgaria's special services. The partner in the tripartite ruling
Leader of Ataka, Volen Siderov said at the press conference that Ataka would consolidate its position as one of the three major political forces. He expected Ataka candidates to reach second rounds in Bourgas and Yambol. In Blagoevgrad and in Kyustendil, the candidates supported by Ataka were first in the first round.
When results from the municipal elections started coming in on October 28, it became clear that Sofia, Kurdjali, Plovdiv and Varna had re-elected their current mayors in the first round. In Sofia, Boiko Borissov (GERB) was re-elected with a little more than 50 per cent. Independent candidate, backed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, and current mayor of Varna, Kiril Yordanov won in the first round with about 54 per cent. In Plovdiv, current mayor Slavcho Atanasov of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO) and GERB was re-elected with about 56 per cent.
With a national percentage of 21 per cent of the votes, Bulgarian Socialist Party was still the first political force, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said at a press conference on October 28 in a reaction to the first results of the municipal elections. According to Stanishev, GERB received 17 per cent of the votes, while Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria received 14 per cent. We achieved what we were aiming for, he said. "How many parties achieved such a result in elections the middle of a mandate," Stanishev asked. Stanishev compared GERB's result in the elections to those of National Movement for Stability and Progress (NMSP) in the elections of 2001.
"With these results, we'd better close down the party," election staff of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) was joking at the end of the municipal election day on October 28. BSP deputies asked one another regularly where and which how much the party had lost, Dnevnik daily said. Later that even, with collective efforts, election team and leaders of the party calculated, based on exit polls, how to explain that the
Problems during the municipal elections on October 28 ranged from a lack of voting ballots and vote-buying to accusations of transparent ballots which did not protect voters' secrecy of vote. Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said on October 28 that vote-buying in these elections could not be ignored. In total, he said, 66 warnings had been received by the Interior Ministry, of which so far 16 had led to written statements. Interior Minster Roumen Petkov said "society needs to think about where this is going." It was the first time there had been no tolerance for vote-buying, Petkov said. As a consequence, it had been the first elections with arrests, the first elections where people would be prosecuted and the first elections where the police had knowledge about roughly 30 cases of vote-buying, he said.
In a first reaction after results from exit polls were announced, Boiko Borissov (GERB) told reporters that the three parties in the coalition had committed a betrayal of Bulgaria by allowing thousands of Turks to come in to vote. He said that many parties had sent people to Sofia to talk nonsense and Borissov said he was grateful to the people of Sofia that they had not listened. Slavi Binev, Ataka's candidate, said that people in Bulgaria seemed to prefer "eating promises rather than something real". This should change, he said, and said that he had not had enough time to explain all his ideas, but vowed to persist with his message. A spokesperson for the camp of the Democratic Party candidate Titi Papazov said that it was surprising that populism had triumphed in Sofia, especially because Papazov was a good candidate who spoke his mind. The DP had not supported Zaimov because it had not been invited to do so, the spokesperson said, but denied that the right-wing was split.
Provisional exit polls in Bulgaria's October 28 municipal polls appeared to confirm the upward national political arc of the party led by Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov. Elected in 2005, Borissov - who has carefully cultivated a "can-do" strongman image since serving as chief of Bulgaria's Interior Ministry - was said to be the clear front-runner in Sofia. As polls closed, he was said to have 52.6 per cent of the vote, compared to Martin Zaimov, the candidate of two right-wing parties (who was reported to have 19.6 per cent), and Brigo Asparouhov, a, a former communist-era securocrat who was the candidate of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), who was said to have 13.2 per cent.
Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party: The parties failed to convince people of the importance of voting and of the European institutions. Taking into consideration the positive attitude towards the EU in Bulgaria, voter turnout was low. The results were below our expectations, taking into consideration the positive campaign and our strong MEP list. Negative managed to defeat the
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the party supported mainly by Bulgarians of ethnic Turkish descent, took the lead with 21.7 per cent of votes in the country's first European Parliament elections. According to polling agency Sova Harris, at about 9pm with 95 per cent of votes counted, the MRF had 21.7 per cent, the Bulgarian Socialist Party-led Platform of European Socialists 21.3 per cent and GERB, the party
The Bulgarian Socialist Party-led Platform of European Socialists and Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov's Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) "tied" in each getting five seats in the country's first European Parliament elections, according to exit polls. At 8pm, according to polling agency Sova Harris, GERB had 27.9 per cent and the socialists 27.6 per cent. This was the first time that GERB, formally
My colleague Elitsa Savova of www.sofiaecho.com and I arrived a little bit before 8pm at NDK. It was the first time for both of us to be covering such a major political event, so we were understandably excited. With our yellow press passes flapping around our necks, we headed to one of the main entrances. And just on time. One of the main pretenders for the job of head of the Bulgarian state was arriving on
A second round of presidential elections will be held in Bulgaria on October 29 between incumbent President Georgi Purvanov, who according to exit polls got about 65 per cent in the first round, and ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov, who drew about 20 per cent. Nedelcho Beronov, formerly the president of the Constitutional Court until he stood down to be the candidate of a clutch of centre-right
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