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Nov 05 2008 11:19 CET
by Petar Kostadinov
November is the time when Parliament debates and passes the following year's draft budget and the issue of The Sofia Echo published on November 7 2008 reports about the Government's proposals in the light of challenges of the global financial crisis and their effect on Bulgaria.
On the domestic front, we report about the dead-end to the debates on forming a Parliament committee that would oversee the State Agency for National Security have reached. Svetlana Guineva tells the sad story of Bulgarian children with disabilities who are facing hard time in being almost deprived of having access to education.
Sep 10 2008 11:17 CET
by Clive Leviev-Sawyer
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".
Sep 03 2008 13:08 CET
by Clive Leviev-Sawyer
More so than ever, Dimitar Berbatov is the talk of the sporting world after the drama and the spectacular price surrounding his acquisition by Manchester United. In the issue of The Sofia Echo appearing on September 5, we have full details of the story.
September 11 sees the expiry of the statute of limitations on the communist-era "umbrella murder" of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London in 1978. Dnevnik daily has the scoop on secret documents about the murder, and The Sofia Echo reprints the story in its latest issue.
Aug 01 2008 11:00 CET
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When Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympics, began promoting the idea of resurrecting the ancient Games, his goal was to promote sport as an important part of the education of youth in his day. More than a century later, the Games have grown to become the main sports event of the year, but also a booming industry.
Jun 18 2008 12:11 CET
by Clive Leviev-Sawyer
An agreement that will open the way for Bulgarian air carriers to fly to the United States is one of the key outcomes of the visit to the US by Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev.
In the issue of The Sofia Echo published on June 20, Rene Beekman outlines the meaning of the agreement and the issues that will influence how it will work.
Serbian police have arrested Stojan Zupljanin, one of the top Bosnian-Serb fugitives indicted by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, international media reported on June 11.
A former police chief and aide to Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, Zupljanin is alleged to have committed atrocities against Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the 1992/95 war.
Jun 11 2008 13:42 CET
by Clive Leviev-Sawyer
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.
Nikola Filchev, Bulgaria's former prosecutor-general who is now serving as ambassador to Kazakhstan, asked to be relieved of his duties starting September, the Foreign Ministry told Sofia Echo on June 10.
Filchev was appointed as ambassador to Almaty in February 2006, after his seven-year term as prosecutor-general expired. A controversial figure during and after his term in office, his diplomatic nomination, supported by both Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev and President Georgi Purvanov, was interpreted at the time by the rightist opposition as a way to keep him out of the judiciary's reach.
Jun 04 2008 11:22 CET
by Clive Leviev-Sawyer
There is a question mark over Bulgaria's readiness to implement European requirements for a new paperless air ticket system. The issue of The Sofia Echo appearing on June 6 explores the issue.
In the paper's regular regional coverage, Spasena Baramova examines the aftermath of Macedonia's troubled June 1 snap elections.
The atmosphere in which snap parliamentary elections were held in Macedonia required all political parties in the country to assume their share of the "responsibility", Bulgarian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dimitar Tsanchev said in a statement.
Violence in the country on the election day left one dead and nine wounded. Voting was halted at up to 15 voting stations at the ethnic Albanian village of Aracinovo, north of capital Skopje, international news agencies reported. Nine people were reported arrested after the Aracinovo shootings.
If you qualify for Bulgarian citizenship and want the passport, take a number and make yourself comfortable.
Very comfortable, because with 60 000 applications in hand and limited capacity to process them, it could take up to six years before the moment comes that a newly-minted Bulgarian has that passport in hand.
May 14 2008 17:15 CET
by Clive Leviev-Sawyer
The leaders of Bulgaria's tripartite ruling coalition cloistered themselves in Bansko for a weekend, emerging with announcements of a host of proposals for changes to social and health policies, and having discussed the country's troubled Interior Ministry.
In the issue of The Sofia Echo published on May 20, the newspaper has three pages of details of what came out of the meeting - along with reports on the searing criticism of Bulgaria in a letter from the European Commission.
Kosovo became the latest addition to the European map, already highly fragmented after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, sparking unambiguous reactions across the region and throughout the world.
Its declaration of independence on February 17 2008 had been expected for years, given that it had been de facto independent from Belgrade since Nato intervened to stop Serbian ethnic cleansing in
