Search Results for: Bulgarian

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its gas infrastructure investment priorities for the next 20 years. They are pipeline and other transit projects delivering gas directly from the Caspian Sea to Europe; integrating the Baltic gas market, connecting it to central and southeast Europe; and boosting north-south infrastructure in western Europe to remove internal bottlenecks.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, ZLATKO ?ONKA?, CRISTINA MUNTEAN, KEITH NUTHALL

CAR prices in eastern and central Europe tumbled during the recession, significantly faster than in western Europe according to the latest data, impeding attempts to create a unified auto market that spans Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BULGARIA is to likely be suspended from international carbon emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol because of poor financial controls. A UN Framework Convention on Climate Change committee is expected to prevent Bulgarian trading from June to at least November, the country’s environment minister has admitted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel has refused to set an advisory limit for the intake of sugar by European Union (EU) consumers. EFSA’s panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies has concluded in a comprehensive assessment of dietary requirements for EU consumers “there was insufficient evidence to set an upper limit for sugars”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BULGARIA is to likely be suspended from international carbon emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol because of poor financial controls. A UN Framework Convention on Climate Change committee is expected to prevent Bulgarian trading from June to at least November, the Bulgarian environment minister has admitted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is keeping the pressure on the Bulgarian government to recover Euro 511,000 (Bulgarian Lev BGN 432.6 million) subsidies paid in 2007 to now bankrupt steel-maker Kremikovtzi. In a detailed report, the Commission stressed the handout had been authorised under European Union (EU) state aid rules as an exceptional payment, designed to help Kremikovtzi restructure and become viable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CALLS have been made for major additional spending on European Union (EU) energy infrastructure, now a new European Commission team is in office.

The European Parliament’s industry committee has strengthened EU proposals to ensure member states have sufficient interconnected energy links to deal with any unexpected winter shortages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) RAPEX consumer alert service has reported a spate of sales bans and withdrawals of clothes with drawstrings, because of concerns that they could strangle wearers. Last week RAPEX publicised sales bans in Bulgaria of China-made J.S.J.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

EUROPEAN Parliament members have claimed one scalp over ethical concerns from among the 27 European Commission candidates, who will begin five-year terms on February 9. Rumiana Jeleva, Bulgarian foreign minister, took the lawmakers’ hit after being strongly quizzed about her business interests.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has effectively ordered the Bulgarian government to recoup Euro 222 million in restructuring aid paid to bankrupt Bulgaria steel maker Kremikovtzi. After an investigation, the Commission concluded that Kremikovtzi had not followed a business plan it accepted as a condition of receiving special government restructuring subsidies.…