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International - Home (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister in charge of EU funds management, Meglena Plugchieva has not only fought tooth and nail for the suspended EU funds but she was also one of the first who dared tell Brussels: "We have problems but you have to help us." It is not at all a coincidence that at each of her visits to Brussels, the EU institutions have insisted on vesting her in higher authority. Before...
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International - Home (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
The measures, which are being taken now, will yield a result later on, Plugchieva pointed out
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
EC Director for Enlargement, Michael Lee, arrives Monday in Sofia to give Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European funds' absorption, Meglena Plugchieva, detailed explanations about the blocking of EUR 220M under the PHARE program. The meeting was initiated by Mr Lee after Plugchieva ...
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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
SOFIA, Bulgaria - This spring, after Bulgaria recalled Meglena Plugchieva from her ambassadorship in Berlin to clean up widespread corruption and misuse of European Union funds, she warned fellow ministers they must act to prevent the loss of massiv
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Bulgaria Ratifies Lisbon Treaty In March, Bulgaria become the sixth EU member state to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community. The Lisbon Reform Treaty is the first of the founding and reform EU treaties that was signed b...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
Corruption in Bulgaria tests EU expansionFrustrations mount over Bulgaria – the most violent, corrupt, and poorest of EU members. Aid is being withheld as reform promises are made (and broken). Can it be fixed? SOFIA, Bulgaria - This spring, after Bulgaria recalled Meglena Plugchieva from her ambassadorship in Berlin to clean up widespread corruption and misuse of European Union funds, she warned...
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International - Home (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
In Bulgaria, there is a political will for doing away with corruption, according to Vice Premier Plugchieva
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 20/12/2008
... votes, and the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of monitoring the absorption of EU funding Meglena Plugchieva got 1% of the votes. The other poll of the Darik Radio - for a 2008 "Event of the Year" attracted 1 675 votes. Of these 43% went to the US Presidential Elections, 36% to the global financial crisis, 18% to Bulgaria's issues with the absorption of EU money, 2% to the suicide of the...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
... after the announcement in Brussels, while the deputy premier in charge of European funds, Meglena Plugchieva, said she felt "cheated."President Georgi Parvanov even accused the EU of "keeping Bulgaria hostage" in its internal power struggles. Bulgaria's inability to curb corruption in its own institutions did not come as a surprise. In fact, the EU had allowed Sofia to join the bloc without...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
A technical mission with the European Commission is to probe the projects developed under PHARE program in Bulgaria in January 2009, Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Plugchieva announced Monday. "The check aims at releasing the EU funds payment on all of the projects," she explained. "The Bulgarian s...
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International - Home (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
For the last five months Bulgaria has concluded contracts on different programmes of the European Union for 800 million Euro, Vice Premier Meglena Plugchieva announced at a meeting with experts from new member states.For comparison sake, she pointed out that for the first 18 moths from our accession in the EU they were only 46 million Euro.Plugchieva announced that the decentralized model...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
EU's Director-General for Enlargement Michael Leigh assessed positively Monday the efforts of the Bulgarian government to tackle the country's problems with the absorption of EU money. Leigh pointed out he was satisfied with the work of the Prime Minister Stanishev, the Deputy PM Plugchieva, and t...
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International - Home (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Meglena Plugchieva and the managers of the PHARE programme in the different ministries will participate in the meeting
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
PM Stanishev: Bulgaria Is in Its First Real Capitalist CrisisBulgaria's Labor Minister Maslarova, PM Stanishev, and Deputy PM Plugchieva (left to right) presented Thursday their positions on how Bulgaria should cope with the effects of the global crisis. Photo by BGNESThe Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev stated Thursday that for the first time in its development Bulgaria was entering...
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International - Home (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
... prime minister Sergei Stanishev. Hosts of the event will be the deputy prime minister Meglena Plugchieva and the minister of finance Plamen Oresharski. Reports on the topic will be delivered by the minister of economy and energy Peter Dimitrov and the minister of labor and social policy Emilia Maslarova. The discussion will be attended also by the deputy chairman of the Bulgarian industrial...
