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February 8th, 2012
The European Union criticized Romania and Bulgaria on Wednesday for being too slow to reform their judicial systems or to combat corruption and organized crime. The move casts doubt on the two Balkan nations joining the borderless Schengen zone anytime soon.
February 15th, 2012
By now, most everybody knows Michael Lewis' story of Moneyball best-selling book or Oscar-nominated film, about the poor little franchise in Oakland that learned how to compete against the big-city rich teams by discovering overlooked players. The maestro of this policy, general manager Billy Beane, is an endearing character. But I've never been all that charmed by the story, because Beane was ...
February 13th, 2012
Titan Machinery Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire a majority interest of Rimex, which consists of seven Case IH agriculture equipment dealership locations in the following cities in Bulgaria: Sofia, Dobrich, Burgas, Pleven, Ruse, Montana, and Stara Zagora.
February 14th, 2012
Bulgaria's Minister of Economy and Energy, Traicho Traikov, is presenting Tuesday the official position of his institution on the controversial international Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA. It emerged Monday that the government will sign ACTA with reservations regarding spying on internet users or will withdraw its support entirely. Legal experts have advised that Bulgaria will not ...
February 14th, 2012
Bulgaria's football federation is postponing the restart of the domestic league to next month because of the exceptionally cold weather in the Balkan country. The Bulgarian Football Union said Tuesday that the round of games initially scheduled to start on Feb. 24 has been pushed back to begin on March 20 because of heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures.
February 14th, 2012
Bulgaria could join Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland in delaying its decision on whether to sign an international copyright treaty that some Internet users say could lead to online censorship.
February 15th, 2012
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO is to buy five U.S.-made unmanned drone aircraft capable of countering Afghan insurgents, hunting pirates off Somalia or monitoring arms embargoes, an alliance official said on Wednesday. The drones are part of the Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) project, scheduled to begin operating between 2015 and 2017. The project reflects NATO efforts to cooperate more closely ...
February 12th, 2012
One third of the small dams in Bulgaria have defective safety valves, the country's Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Traicho Traikov has revealed. The flawed safety valves in question are either covered with concrete or obstructed in other ways, Traikov told reporters, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency. However, the bigger dams that contain 55% of the regulated water volume in ...
February 7th, 2012
ZHONGSHAN, China, Feb. 7, 2012/PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited ("Ming Yang" or the "Company") (NYSE: MY - News), a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, ...
February 14th, 2012
Bulgaria will freeze its participation in the controversial ACTA trade agreement, the country's Economy Minister Traicho Traikov announced on Tuesday. Traikov revealed that he will present a draft resolution on Bulgaria's decision to freeze its ratification of ACTA to the Bulgarian Council of Ministers on Wednesday. "This means that our country will not undertake any actions, including a ...
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