Full Coverage: Bulgaria

27.10.2007 A citizen held electronic health card (eCard) will enable people to access online electronic prescriptions in Bulgaria. The pilot project will be tested by 1,000 patients who will use their eCard at both their GP and pharmacy.

12.10.2007 Bulgarian officials focused on economic gain this week and disregarded the drastic environmental costs as they launched construction of a large-scale tourism complex in the Rila mountains, one of the most biodiverse regions in Europe.

02.10.2007 The Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation and Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, with the support of the Oak Foundation and the Open Society Institute’s Human Rights and Governance Program, are pleased to announce that the Regional Conference on Legal Reform on Domestic Violence will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on February 12–14, 2008.

24.07.2007 Libya's release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor - jailed in 1999 for allegedly infecting 393 children with HIV - has been welcomed by the International Trade Union Confederation.

18.08.2005 As part of The Great Volga River Route project, an International Workshop on Sustainable Development and World Heritage took place on 28-31 July 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.The aim is to link young people through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and engage them in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites.

30.03.2004 The Home Office was last night urgently investigating claims that thousands of would-be immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria are buying their way into Britain on forged documents after the consular official who leaked the claim to the shadow cabinet was suspended.

18.03.2004 UNESCO is setting up HIV/AIDS information centres for youth in Mozambique, Tanzania and Bulgaria. This is part of a project to implement preventive HIV/AIDS activities by improving access to information and raising awareness among youth about the potential risks and the ways for a more efficient prevention.

05.08.2003 A new Website has been launched to save the unique nature of the Kresna Gorge in Bulgaria by diverting the proposed Struma Motorway. The Bulgarian government plans to build the motorway, as part of a trans-European corridor connecting Sofia and Athens, directly through the valuable natural riches of Kresna Gorge and the town of Kresna.

21.07.2003 In the recent Ohrid meeting the presidents of Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria have pledged to increase cooperation among their countries and speed up the construction of European Corridor 8, ATA news agency reported.

16.07.2003 Croatia and Bulgaria have both turned down the controversial UK and Italian idea that they house asylum camps for immigrants trying to get into the EU. The proposal had been presented by UK at the Thessaloniki EU summit where it had been clashed.

11.07.2003 Bulgarian town of Blagoevgrad will host a European conference on environmental education “CEEE – 2004” next June. The organization of the meeting is entrusted to the local NGO “Ecosouthwest”. Source:bluelink

30.06.2003 Eleven countries from Southern Europe are currently participating in a project on ICTs for the development of education and the construction of a knowledge society. The project, which got underway earlier this year, includes activities like seminars and expert meetings on topics such as ICT application in distance education, IT training and multimedia courses.

19.06.2003 Work group on preparation of new Conception on mountain regions’ development was formed. The key objective is to achieve sustainable development without harm on the specific environment of the mountain areas. Source: BlueLink

12.06.2003 At next week's EU summit in Thessaloniki, Bulgaria will fight to make EU member states give some commitments that it can finish negotiations next year and become a member of the EU in 2007. However, it is up against apathy on the part of the EU 15 who recently gave the nod to the biggest enlargement in the Union's history.

12.06.2003 At next week's EU summit in Thessaloniki, Bulgaria will fight to make EU member states give some commitments that it can finish negotiations next year and become a member of the EU in 2007. However, it is up against apathy on the part of the EU 15 who recently gave the nod to the biggest enlargement in the Union's history.

05.06.2003 BlueLink Information Network of Bulgaria has launched a South Eastern Europe regional environmental content-sharing )Website in partnership with StrawberryNet of Romania. The English-language initiative aims to strengthen the environmental information exchange in the South Eastern Europe region through online content sharing and joint information flow.

04.03.2003 www.stabilitypactwatch.info, which was launched recently, focuses on the monitoring of the Stability Pact Process in the Balkans. The Pact seeks to encourage stability through support for regional projects, which are going to be implemented through a South Eastern European Regional Table.

10.02.2003 A press review from Tanya Mangalakova informs us on the Bulgarian public's reactions to the Gulf crisis. Pacifists and anti-American protesters are particularly active: from a rally on the streets of Sofia to the announcement of the mission of 200 volunteers in Iraq.

17.01.2003 To encourage online sharing and cooperation between environment NGOs, the BlueLink Information Network has started a series of roving training workshops in Bulgarian towns.

13.01.2003 Bulgaria's highest court has overruled a government decision to close two units of the controversial Soviet-designed Kozloduy nuclear plant by 2006.