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| Brussels expects... (Christina Dimitrova) |
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| THE regular report on Bulgaria's progress towards EU accession released on October 6 said that Bulgaria as well as Romania were continuing their steady progress towards European Union accession and the EC expects that by January 1, 2007, the two countries will be ready to join the union. |
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| EC report: the main points (Staff Reporter) |
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| Bulgaria is progressing well towards EU accession and the EC expects that it will be ready by January 1, 2007 to join the EU. |
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Business |
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| Expat execs' employment eased (Business Staff) |
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| THE Government approved on September 30 changes to an ordinance to ease access to the national job market for senior managers and experts of foreign companies. |
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| Velchev takes on IMF (Ivan Vatahov) |
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| THE Government's commitment to raise the minimum wage to 150 leva from the current 120 leva on January 1 2005 is absolutely firm, and is not subject to change, Finance Minister Milen Velchev told the media upon his return from Washington on October 5, where he took part in the regular annual meeting of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. |
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Features |
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| Reading Room - Flying into the future (Velina Nacheva) |
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| DIETER GROSSE, Lufthansa's manager Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania speaks to VELINA NACHEVA about the company's operations in Bulgaria. |
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| Reading Room - Special Feature: SALUTE TO GERMAN BUSINESS (Christina Dimitrova) |
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| In honour of the German national day that was celebrated on October 3, The Sofia Echo tracks key themes of trade between Germany and Bulgaria |
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Life&Leisure; |
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| Double Dutch in Bulgaria (Koos Schouten) |
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| SOMETIMES it can be very hard to write this column. |
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| Family Matters - A cautionary tale of tapeworms (Danielle Trussoni) |
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| JUST the other afternoon, at about 4pm, when the neighbourhood grannies were waking from their naps, and the sun was falling into the hazy tremulous pre-dusk hours, I took my daughter Nico (aged 17 months) down to our sandbox. We live in a quiet co-op apartment building in Iztok, and are fortunate enough to have not only a sandbox at our disposal, but a nicely painted metal swing set and a rose garden. My son, Alex (aged four), was already out, on the swing, with his dad. As I led Nico to the sand, Krissi, |
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| Legal Alien - Between fantasy and reality (Clive Leviev-Sawyer) |
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| PERHAPS the best quotation I have read in the run-up to this year's United States presidential election is one from an insider on the John Kerry campaign. |
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People |
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| Masks or faces (Velina Nacheva) |
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| CHARLOTTE ROTH is one of the major driving forces behind a festival dedicated to the life and work of director Ingmar Bergman. The festival, which is in Sofia from October 8 to 28, will be accompanied by an exhibition at CiBank. Roth, who is also the wife of the Swedish ambassador, spoke to VELINA NACHEVA. |
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Comment |
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| Editorial - EC report |
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| THE regular report by the European Commission on Bulgaria's progress towards European Union accession is to be welcomed, for its sober assessments, for its constructive criticism, and for the hope it offers. |
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Sport |
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| Ryder Cup: all the winners |
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| THE winners at the September 11-12 biannual Ryder Cup golf competition in Bulgaria were the US team which took a lead of three points to beat the European Union team. |
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Culture Shock |
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| Film Review - A Slumping Epic (Pavel Ivanov) |
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| "Man on Fire" is a simple story dressed in unbecomingly flashy clothes, which may fool one at a passing glance that they are looking at cinematic greatness, but not an audience that sits through these two and a half hours of runtime. The film is a variation on a tried and tested formula that evokes one of the most dependable cinematic guilty pleasures: a man taking justice in his own hands and singing an ode to vengeance with poetic resolve and fervour. The problem is that this formula is usually aiming at |
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| Fusing mind, body and soul (Velina Nacheva) |
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| Martial arts, created in Asia and developed in various places around the world, reached Bulgaria properly only after the changes in 1989. They were being banned before that, however, today this art is practiced by different people of all ages. There are, apart from children, of course, economists, managers, financiers, lawyers, professors and artists countrywide in more than 60 Shotokan Karate-do clubs which is only one style, among hundreds of others. |
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Restaurant Reviews |
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| Hadjidraganovite Kashti (Gus Worth) |
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| Today, readers, we will talk about forgiveness, because if you took all my errors, mistakes and cock-ups in my life and laid them out in a line, you would say this guy is the most stupid and inept person ever. Yet somehow I have managed to muddle through and have not done too badly out of life. Often, though, I was glad of forgiveness, of someone overlooking my mistake and letting me get on with things or giving me a second chance. Today though, I am left with a dilemma. |
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