Bulgaria

The EU, White House and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy among those speaking out on December 1 2009, World AIDS Day.

48-year-old Bulgarian Tsvetan Rangelov has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Austria over a brutal double murder. On June 1, 2009, Rangelov murdered two spouses keeping a family restaurant in Pachfurth, Lower Austria, during a robbery. He also wounded their daughter, who was on the second floor of the building and came down upon hearing the shots, and stole the daily turnover of EUR 1 500....

Bulgaria and Manchester United star striker Dimitar Berbatov has evacuated his wife and new born baby daughter from Bulgaria after receiving threats from the mafia. According to UK and Bulgarian tabloid reports local Bulgarian Mafia bosses in Sofia contacted Berbatov's mother, Margarita, 10 days ago to tell her that the family was in danger if the Manchester United star did not pay a GBP 500 000 protection fee. Unconfirmed UK reports on Monday night also claimed that security had been increased around Berbatov's Manchester house. ...

Losses incurred by Moststroi amount to 3.6 million leva as of September 2009, a figure that includes business operations of other affiliated firms.

Celebrations to be held in Lisbon to mark the coming into force on December 1 2009 of the Treaty that reshapes the workings of the European Union.

George Papaconstantinou blames the previous administration for Greece's debts and says the EU will not have to bail out the Greek economy.

Bulgarian Vice-President of the World Bank, Kristalina Georgieva, might replace Simeon Djankov as the Finance Minister in the Borisov government. This rumor saying that Georgieva might take Djankov's job in the spring of 2010 has appeared in Bulgarian financial circles, as cited by dir.bg. ...

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Decision includes incentives for fathers to take paternity leave. The new EU directive will give each working parent the right to at least four months’ leave after the birth or adoption of a child.