Mon 12 May 2008

Only in Bulgaria being famous could provide you with favourable sentence, Krassimir Gorsov, father of Manuela Gorsova, one of the victims in the car accident, caused by twotimes ice skating world champion Maxim Staviski, told a news conference on May 12.On May 7 2008, Bourgas Court of Appeal rejected the appeal against the suspended sentence Staviski received, a ruling that Gorsov says he will challenge in a higher court.

Mon 12 May 2008

Bulgaria and Romania would likely join the euro zone in 20132014, the analytical unit of UniCredit Group said in its latest report titled The Euro goes Eastwards. It also warned that the main challenge to euro zone hopefuls was soaring inflation.Once all aspirants from Central and Eastern Europe adopt the single European currency, the euro zone will expand by a third. Currently, the euro is in use by 320 million Europeans in 15 countries.

Mon 12 May 2008

The coalition of parties headlined by president Boris Tadi amp;263; Democratic party DS, won the Serbian parliamentary election on May 11, according to the preliminary data released by the countrys election body RIK, but faces difficult talks to form the new government.The coalition, which ran under the name For a European Serbia, won 38.75 per cent, RIK said, having counted 97.8 per cent of all ballots. That would give it 102 MPs in the 250seat assembly.

Mon 12 May 2008

An Israeli committee that oversees the implementation of the countrys 1957 law on compensation for persecution by Nazis during the Holocaust ruled on May 11 that any Jew who lived under curfew in Bulgaria and Romania in World War 2 would be classified as a survivor, even though they were not sent to death camps.Reporting the decision, Israeli newspaper Haaretz and news agency ynetnews said that the decision could have an impact on thousands of Jews in Bulgaria and Romania.

Mon 12 May 2008

Former defence minister Nikolai Svinarov was elected chairman of Bulgarian New Democracy BND party on May 11 2008 at the founding congress in the National Palace of Culture, which created Bulgarias newest political party.Talking to Bulgarian media after the vote, Svinarov said that BND was ready to join a wide rightwing coalition that was ready to rule the country after next years general elections.