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KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS government has shown how rich countries can fulfil their Kyoto Protocol commitments by promoting the overseas development of efficient green energy production, claimed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The Dutch are funding a Euro 5 million conversion of a Bulgarian paper mill from generating energy via oil and gas to biomass via the EBRD-managed Euro 32 million Netherlands Emissions Reduction Co-operation Fund.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending French wine group Belvedere Euro 9 million to break into the Bulgarian market, paying for it to reconstruct existing wineries and to acquire vineyards. The bank said the loan would “support (Belvedere) in the process of becoming one of the biggest local players in the wine sector and (in) increasing its export sales”.…

BY PUAL COCHRANE, in Beirut

THE APPEAL hearing of the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for allegedly infecting over 400 Libyan children with HIV has been brought forward to December 25. The hearing was originally slated for January 31, but was altered in response to concerns by the defence team over the health and psychological conditions of the defendants, who have been in jail since 1999.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH drinks group Belvédère is to sink Euro 30 million into the Bulgarian wine industry, as the country prepares to become a European Union (EU) member state in 2007. The company is planning to invest in local vineyards to be able to provide approximately 30% of its grape supplies for its Bulgarian production, which is owned by subsidiary Belvédère Capital Management Ltd.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Dundee Precious Metals Inc US$10 million to modernise and expand its Chelopech Gold Copper mine and associated processing plant in Bulgaria. Its aim is to boost the complex’s processing of ore from 500,000 to 1.5 million tonnes per year, which it converts into copper/gold concentrates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Dundee Precious Metals Inc US$10 million to modernise and expand its Chelopech Gold Copper mine and associated processing plant in Bulgaria. Its aim is to boost the complex’s processing of ore from 500,000 to 1.5 million tonnes per year, which it converts into copper/gold concentrates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DUTIES on a range of Romanian confectionary exported to European Union (EU) will be phased out by 2007, easing the country’s oncoming EU membership. Affected lines range from chewing gum, liquorice extract, white chocolate, boiled sweets and toffees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHILE the voters of many European Union (EU) countries express misgivings about greater continental integration, Bulgaria has been making great efforts to join the Brussels club by 2007. But its reputation for commercial crime and the lack of strong governmental structures able to tackle the problem are hampering efforts to clean up the country’s reputation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BULGARIA has come under fire for failing to effectively reform its shoddy mental hospitals, which have been described by a human rights group as “dumping grounds where people are robbed of the right to any activity and wait only to die”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROSE oil production in Bulgaria has grown in 2004 to a record for recent years of one ton, up on last year’s 700 kg, said a note from the European Commission. Bulgarian rose oil prices have also hit a high of Euro 4,100 per kilogramme.…