September, 2009

• 5 September

  Rumyana Zheleva: Bulgaria is unable to cast its problems away

  BULGARIA In an interview with The Capital Weekly Rumyana Zheleva, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs explained that Bulgaria entered the EU with deficits in two fields – justice and home affairs. In due time problems occurred with the appropriation of EU funds. Somehow those problems intertwined leading to its bad …

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• 5 September

  Only 39% of ISPA money absorbed

  BULGARIA Only 39% of the ISPA money has been absorbed over the last nine years and the 2010 deadline is just round the corner. This is what the Minister of Transport Alexander Tsvetkov announced. Minister Tsvetkov pointed out the percentage for OP Transport was 1.5%. In his words, Bulgaria needed …

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• 4 September

  Proletarii nu au patrie, iar „liberalii”… limbă?!

  „Net, net i net!” (N. Bondarciuk, aprilie 1988) Nici nu s-au ofilit florile depuse la statuia lui Mihai Eminescu de 31 august, că au şi început să se facă auzite voci care par a trivializa evenimentul. Vezi Doamne, un liberal autentic nu ar trebui să se ocupe cu asemenea chestiuni …

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• 4 September

  Ministra bezbjednosti nema bez direktora UIO i RAK-a

  BiH Prijedlog o imenovanju Sadika Ahmetovića za novog ministra sigurnosti neće biti dostavljen parlamentu BiH sve dok SDA i Stranka za BiH ne pristanu na imenovanje direktora Regulatorne agencije za komunikacije (RAK) i Uprave za indirektno oporezivanje (UIO). “Prijedlog za imenovanje ministra neću proslijediti parlamentu dok ne završimo imenovanje direktora …

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• 4 September

  Bulgaria Transport Minister: ISPA Funds Absorption Questionable

  BULGARIA There is a real risk that Bulgaria will fail to absorb the EU ISPA program funds, according to Transport Minister, Alexander Tsvetkov. Tsvetkov spoke Friday, during the regularly scheduled Parliamentary Control session, in response to question coming from his predecessor, Petar Mutafchiev.

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• 4 September

  New Government to be in place this month – Speaker

  MOLDOVA The new Government of the Republic of Moldova shall be formed all right by the end of September, Parliament Chairman Mihai Ghimpu stated in his interview with Jurnal de Chişinău newspaper that was published today. He explained, the majority parliamentary coalition has not yet discussed a concrete personal composition …

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• 4 September

  Russia recognizes new Moldovan authorities

  MOLDOVA Andrei Nesterenko, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman, has stated at a briefing in Moscow on Thursday the official Moscow hopes the new Parliament of Moldova will manage to prevent a possible political crisis in the republic. Asked to comment the forthcoming stepping down of Vladimir Voronin as President of …

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• 4 September

  Lack of a quorum in Parliament

  MOLDOVA Lack of a quorum did not permit a plenary sitting of the Moldovan Parliament to take place today. In the morning, only the Communist Party faction of 48 came to the session room, while all the 53 deputies of the governing Alliance for European Integration (AEI) ignored the event, …

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• 4 September

  Talat: Turkish Cypriots have alternatives

  TURKEY Discussions picked up speed on both sides as Greek Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias announced Thursday that he would meet Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat for a second round of talks. Talat said Turkish Cypriots have other alternatives to consider if the Greek Cypriots “refuse resolution as they did …

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• 4 September

  Russia, Romania “concerned by Kosovo situation”

  RUSSIA, ROMANIA The Russian and Romanian Foreign Ministries have expressed their concern with the situation in Kosovo. Andrei Nesterenko from the Russian Foreign Ministry said that “considerable conflict potential“ persisted in Kosovo, and that he expected international community representatives to act impartially to prevent “new anti-Serb provocation.“

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