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| Bulgaria in Brief: | Bulgarian Journalist Raises Assassination Plot Alert Ivo Indzhev, one of Bulgaria's most prominent journalists, who was kicked out four years ago from national private bTV for apparently libeling President Georgi Parvanov, has warned of an assassination attempt being plotted against him.
"Bulgaria's senior prosecutor Boris Velchev has ordered a check of an alert for a planned assassination attempt against me, which was sent by a media," Indzhev wrote in his blog.
According to the announcement the plot was triggered by the journalist's latest book "A President on the Edge", which deals with Socialist President Georgi Parvanov.
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| | Bulgarian Labor Minister Confirms Gradual Retirement ReformThe number of years of service required for retirement will increase gradually beginning January 1, 2011, Bulgaria's Social Policy and Labor Minister, Totyu Mladenov, reconfirms Thursday.
Mladenov made the announcement after a meeting with the parliamentary group of the opposition left-wing Coalition for Bulgaria, led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
The Minister explained the required number of years will go up by 1 in 2011 and with 1 more in 2012 and 2013 each to reach the planned 37 years for women (currently 34) and 40 years for men (currently 37).... |
| | Bulgaria Ethnic Turks Leader Unscathed by Embezzlement AllegationsBulgaria ethnic Turkish leader Ahmed Dogan managed to escape prosecution over allegations that he pocketed BGN 1,5 M as a consultant of hydro projects, financed by the state budget.
A meeting of the parliamentary commission for corruption fight and conflict of interests, which was to vote Thursday on sending Dogan to the judiciary, failed after two of its members surprisingly did not show up.
Borislav Velikov, MP from the Bulgarian Socialist Party, and Nikolay Kotsev from the ruling GERB party, failed to appear at the meeting for what were said to be "personal reasons", triggering suspicions of behind-the-scene moves aimed to rescue Ahmed Dogan.
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| | Bulgaria Mulls 2 Anti-mafia AgenciesBulgaria is planning to create two brand new agencies to counter corruption and organized crime in order to clean its tarnished image as one of the most corrupt EU Member States.
The statement was made by Bulgaria's Justice Minister, Margarita Popova, in an interview for Reuters, cited by Darik radio.
The interview notes the pressure on Romania and Bulgaria coming from Brussels to deal effectively with corruption and organized crime, but reminds the EC praised Bulgaria for its will to carry out reforms in their July report on justice and home affairs through the so-called Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM).
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| | US Mission to NATO Political Counselor Kelly Degnan: Bulgaria Exemplifies Approaches for NATO's New Strategic ConceptInterview of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) with Kelly Degnan, a political counselor at the US Mission to NATO. Degnan gave a presentation in Sofia on NATO's new strategic concept "NATO 2020" at a briefing organized by the US Embassy and the Atlantic Club in Bulgaria.
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