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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BULGARIAN prime minister Sergei Stanishev has dug the first sod to launch the construction of the country’s second nuclear power plant at Belene. The aim is to see the Euro 4 billion 2,000 MW plant operational by 2014.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BULGARIAN prime minister Sergei Stanishev has dug the first sod to launch the construction of the country’s second nuclear power plant at Belene. The aim is to see the Euro 4 billion 2,000 MW plant operational by 2014.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has suspended payments of European Union (EU) funds for infrastructure projects in new member state Bulgaria because its government has failed to combat graft. Citing "irregularities", the Commission has formally withdrawn accreditation for two Bulgarian government agencies managing EU funds helping new member states attain EU standards: Bulgaria’s Central Financing and Contracting Unit and the Implementing Agency at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN research network EUREKA has asked for plastics firms to participate in a new project that will involve the development of new laminated multi-layer packaging materials for food. The aim, said a EUREKA note was "to design and apply new laminated packages [also incorporating non-plastics materials such as paper and aluminium] that will help to extend the shelf life of food products."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BULGARIAN government is pushing the European Commission for another Euro 550 million at least to compensate it for the forced closure of its Kozloduy nuclear power complex. Its economy and energy minister Petar Dimitrov told an intelligent energy national information day ceremony the Euro 550 million already pledged to the Kozloduy International Fund (Euro 300 million has been used) was not nearly enough.…

BY MARK ROWE

NUCLEAR energy production costs a lot of money and so it makes some economic sense for smaller countries interested in this climate-change friendly power supply to combine forces on major projects. So it is in eastern Europe, where in February 2007, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland provisionally agreed to build a new nuclear plant at Lithuania’s existing Ignalina site, initially with 3,200 MWe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEWEST members of the European Union (EU) – Bulgaria and Romania – have been roundly attacked in Brussels over failures to combat organised crime and corruption. Their inaction could cost them dear. Keith Nuthall reports.

BEING criticised by the European Commission could easily be compared to being slapped with a wet fish: unpleasant, but nothing to lose sleep about.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SHOOTING dead of the chief executive of the company maintaining Bulgaria’s Kozloduy reactors has redoubled the determination of the European Commission to see organised crime stamped out in the country. Borislav Georgiev was killed at home in Sofia, just two weeks after Commission President José Manuel Barroso called for action against Bulgarian crime, saying: "Endless investigations, delayed court cases do not amount to justice."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BULGARIAN government is pushing the European Commission for another Euro 550 million at least to compensate it for the forced closure of its Kozloduy nuclear power complex over safety concerns. Its economy and energy minister Petar Dimitrov told an intelligent energy national information day ceremony that the Euro 550 million already pledged to the Kozloduy International Fund (of which Euro 300 million has been used up) was not nearly enough.…

BY Keith Nuthall and Monica Dobie

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