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The bumpy road to EU funds absorption: the experience of Bulgaria

PERSPECTIVE – Bulgaria Saint Lazare train station, by Claude Monet. EU funding for transport infrastructure is key for the economic convergence of the poorest EU members.Wikimedia Commons   A report of 2008 issued by the Sub-committee on EU funds in the Bulgarian Parliament has pointed to the main challenges the state has faced in the [...]

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How spending EU funds can be a hard task

Reading note – Bulgaria Title of the document: Cohesion policy: Strategic Report 2010 on the implementation of the programmes 2007-2013 Author: DG Regional Policy, European Commission Publication date: 31 March 2010 Target public: Member States, citizens and other stakeholders   Recently Jean Marie Seiler, director of DG ‘Regional policy” at the European Commission, stated that [...]

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Perspective: Bulgaria?s European Union membership and emigration trends – which way forward?

The return of the prodigal son, Rembrandt, ca 1662, Hermitage Museum, St Petersbourg Source: Wikimedia Commons Emigration has presented a serious challenge for Bulgaria”s demography ever since the democratic changes in the early 1990s. Now that Bulgaria has become a member of the European Union (EU), the expectations for the further development of migration tendencies [...]

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Bulgaria struggling to bring back emigrants ? Reading note: Tema

Features of the journal Title: Tema Topics covered: poliotics, economy, society and culture Circulation: 10 000 copies Website: www.temanews.com   Features of the article   Author: Nikolay Tanev Title:

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