Bulgaria
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Romania-Bulgaria: ‘Calafat-Vidin bridge does not herald new spring for Romanian infrastructure’
17 June 201343 1PresseuropZiarul Financiar -
Schengen area: New frontiers
10 June 2013285 47 Dilema Veche Bucharest -
Shale Gas: Where is the stink coming from?
30 May 2013502 6 Polityka Warsaw -
Bulgaria: Dress rehearsal for 2014
27 May 2013105 2 Dilema Veche Bucharest -
The Netherlands: Immigrants tangled up with Turkish gangs
17 May 2013326 32 De Standaard Brussels -
Gay rights: UK is a rainbow warrior
16 May 201372 4PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Bulgaria: ‘30.1% — 26.1%. What do we do now?’
13 May 201323PresseuropStandart -
Elections in Bulgaria: In search of Europe
10 May 2013160 66 Sega Sofia -
Immigration: UK’s head in the sand
5 April 2013111 57 The Daily Telegraph London -
United Kingdom: Petition against Romanians and Bulgarians is creating a buzz
15 March 2013152 24PresseuropGandul -
Romania: ‘Halt Ion! Verboten Simeon! Nein!’
7 March 201321 26PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
Bulgaria: Dying for political change
6 March 2013145 1 Vesti.bg Sofia -
Romania: ‘Schengen — Willkommen’
4 March 201385 42PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
Bulgaria: ‘The Church has a leader, the people do not’
25 February 201320PresseuropTrud -
Bulgaria: 'A well thought-out resignation’
22 February 201317PresseuropKapital Daily -
Bulgaria: Borisov may still have the last word
21 February 201359 Standart Sofia -
Czech Republic: ‘Anger over ČEZ brought down government’
21 February 201344 2PresseuropLidové noviny -
Bulgaria: ‘I quit’
21 February 201335 1Presseurop24 Chasa -
Bulgaria: ‘Borisov fails to convince’
20 February 2013446 1PresseuropKapital Daily -
Bulgaria-United Kingdom: Dear Ralitsa, I do not hate your country
11 February 2013159 40 Presseurop -
Bulgaria: Hezbollah and the EU
6 February 201342 1 Al-Mustaqbal Beirut -
Bulgaria-United Kingdom: Dear Mr Farage...
31 January 2013393 40 24 Chasa Sofia -
Bulgaria: ‘A warning shot’
30 January 201316PresseuropStandart -
United Kingdom: Don’t expect an immigrant tsunami in 2014
29 January 2013175 12 New Eastern Europe Cracow -
Bulgaria: Voters stay away from nuclear referendum
28 January 201327 2PresseuropTrud, Standart -
Drugs: European mules pack Peruvian ‘snow’
11 January 2013138 7 Le Figaro Paris -
Balkans: A fresh spat between Bulgaria and Macedonia
19 December 2012112 10 Dnevnik Sofia -
Bulgaria: Brussels running short on patience with Sofia
5 November 201236 4PresseuropKapital -
Schengen: Bulgarians and Romanians remain in second division
19 October 2012237 54 Sega Sofia -
Prostitution: Brussels targets human trafficking
26 September 201247 3PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Greece: Learning languages
7 September 201272 I Kathimerini Athens -
Central and eastern Europe: Oil, industry, energy — the keys to success
5 September 201248 1PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Eurozone crisis: Bulgaria shelves plans to join the common currency
4 September 201255 30PresseuropThe Wall Street Journal Europe, EUobserver.com -
Schengen Area: Bulgaria could overtake Romania
3 September 201293 3PresseuropStandart, Le Monde, România libera -
Romania: The conquest of Paris
27 August 201230 Jurnalul Naţional Bucharest -
France: Job market partially opens to Romanians and Bulgarians
23 August 201228 35PresseuropLe Monde -
The front page: 19 July 2012
19 July 201214Presseurop24 Chasa, El País, I Kathimerini & 4 others -
Romania and Bulgaria: Bucharest and Sofia, still incorrigible for Commission
18 July 201277 8PresseuropRomânia libera, Adevărul, Sega & 2 others -
The front page: 16 July 2012
16 July 20121PresseuropLa Repubblica, El País, Népszava & 4 others -
Natural gas: Shale gas no longer popular
10 May 2012256 8 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Immigration: Work in Germany - a nightmare for Bulgarians
25 April 2012174 44 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
European Commission: Target: 17 million jobs
16 April 2012132 11PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Bulgaria: Final touches before Schengen
10 April 201263 12 Trud Sofia -
The front page: 29 March 2012
29 March 2012PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya, De Volkskrant, Standart & 4 others -
Italy: A glut of fake euros
23 March 2012350 4 La Repubblica Rome -
Bulgaria - Romania: Maritime duel over natural gas find
22 March 201249PresseuropStandart -
Debate: Wilders - Eastern Europe thanks you
24 February 201291 18 Hospodářské Noviny Prague -
Controversy: Anti-immigrant website shames Netherlands
14 February 2012228 80 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
Schengen: Bucharest and Sofia must try harder, again
9 February 201238 1PresseuropRomânia libera -
Immigration: Bulgarian passport opens doors to West
7 December 2011163 3 Trud Sofia
After months of deadlock, the member states and the European Parliament have agreed on new rules facilitating the establishment of internal borders within the Schengen area. But is this really progress, asks a Romanian journalist. 
Poland, and Europe in its wake, will soon decide on the future of their shale gas deposits. For the technology’s opponents, this is the last moment to save the continent from disaster – or to protect their political and economic interests. 
Put together on May 27, the new Bulgarian government, which is mainly made up of technocrats, has enabled the Socialists come out on top in the wake of elections, which failed to return a majority for any party. The result will have an effect throughout the EU, as will other national elections that are to be held in the run-up to European elections in 2014.
Are Bulgarian immigrants abusing the welfare system? Several cases of benefit fraud have sparked controversy. But often, the suspected fraudsters are themselves simply victims of organised crime networks. 
In the campaign for the legislative elections coming up on May 12, Europe is the big absentee. Unless it’s about calling for an exit from the EU – as the extreme right is – or promising that European funds will continue to pour into the coffers of the country, as the two major parties are doing. 
The anticipated wave of Bulgarian and Romanian immigration in 2014 will not be as high as previously thought, according to a new government report. But that is no reason to ignore the consequences for urbanism and social services, writes the conservative Daily Telegraph. 
A day of mourning has been called for March 6 in memory of Plamen Goranov, a young man who set himself on fire in Varna to demand the resignation of the city's mayor. Coming in the midst of a full-blown national political crisis, this gesture should lead to an awakening of consciousness, writes an influential political columnist. 
On February 20, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's announcement that he is resigning caught everyone by surprise. Writing in "Standart", Bulgarian journalist Martin Karbovski ponders four possible outcomes for the country given the new political landscape. 
Amid controversy about a possible “influx” of Eastern European workers, a young Bulgarian woman named Ralitsa wrote an open letter to British Eurosceptic leader Nigel Farage that was widely reproduced in the Bulgarian press. Here is the MEP’s reply. 
The comments of UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage regarding the "influx" of foreign workers who would arrive in the Britain following the opening up of the UK labour market to Bulgarians and Romanians in 2014 has provoked angry reactions from Sofia. One young Edinburgh-educated Bulgarian woman wrote an open letter to the Eurosceptic MEP. 
Ahead of the end of immigration controls on Romania and Bulgaria in January 2014, some UK ministers are thinking of running a campaign to deter a repeat of the 2004 “wave” of immigration when eight former communist countries gained EU working rights. But the eurozone crisis makes this prospect less likely. 
Hit hard by the crisis, Roberta, a Spanish grandmother, and Jeremy, a French baker, responded to the lure of easy money. Their mission? Smuggle cocaine from Peru into their home countries. Today, they’re rotting in a Lima jail. 
After Athens, it’s Sofia’s turn to put the brakes on the opening of EU accession negotiations with Macedonia. It’s a stance that’s stirring up nationalist tensions between the two countries and breathing new life into the clichés of its European partners about the bickering Balkans, regrets a Bulgarian journalist. 
Job discrimination, threats over visas…. More than five years after their accession to the European Union, Bulgarians and Romanians are treated like second class citizens, complains a Sofia columnist. Apparently, no one, and in particular the leaders of these countries, is bothered by this state of affairs. 
Two reports published on July 18 by the European Commission regarding the rule of law in Romania and in Bulgaria, both of which joined the EU in 2007, stress both countries' lack of democracy and poor records in the fight against crime. These two findings have sparked a debate in the both their national presses. 
France, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic have decided to suspend the exploitation of their shale gas fields for environmental reasons. Now that the EU is under pressure to adopt a similar position, Poland may be the last European country to continue seeking to develop this energy source. 
With the promise of jobs and income, more and more Bulgarians are being lured to Germany. There, however, they run into race-to-the-bottom wages and illegal accommodation. Frankfurt has become the centre of the so-called “Bulgarian industry”. 
The European Commission has postponed Bulgaria’s accession to the free movement area due to lack of progress in the fight against corruption and organised crime. Though Sofia boasts of having fulfilled all the conditions, an investigation by Trud reveals otherwise. 
The region around the city of Giugliano, a strong-hold of the Neapolitan mafia, provides nearly half of the counterfeit euros in circulation. The network, whose international ramifications could destabilise the single currency, has distributed over a billion euros worth of notes since 2002. 
In launching an anti-immigrant website, the Dutch populist has once again issued a provocation in bad taste. But the good news is that it encourages us to examine the relationship between Europeans from two parts of the continent, writes a Czech columnist. 
Air your grievances against Eastern European workers: the new website set up by Geert Wilders’ party has shocked several EU countries. When will the PM Mark Rutte, currently dependent on the PVV’s support, condemn such a provocative move? asks NRC Handelsblad. 
Macedonians, Moldavians and Ukrainians are jostling to obtain a Bulgarian passport. Many plan to leave for other countries in the European Union, but first they must confront the Bulgarian administration. - 1 of 3
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