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| Tomasz Dąborowski
According to the Bulgarian deputy prime minister and interior minister Tsvetlin Yovchev, from January to the end of September this year the number of illegal immigrants detained at the Bulgarian border increased sevenfold in comparison to…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
On 29 May, Bulgaria’s parliament passed a vote of confidence for the government led by Plamen Oresharski, an economist linked to socialists. His cabinet will consist of non-partisan technocrats and politicians from the Bulgarian Socialist…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
On 12 May early parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria. They were called as a result of the biggest public protests against the low standard of living and the entire political class since the mid-1990s. These elections have not…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
On 12 March Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev signed a decree on the dissolution of parliament and the holding of a snap parliamentary election on 12 May. On that same day he formed a provisional government which will govern the country…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
Over the last two weeks, Bulgaria has seen its biggest wave of public demonstrations since 1997. The protesters were initially demonstrating against high electricity prices, but it gradually evolved into protests against the current socio-…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
The centre-right cabinet led by Boyko Borisov announced its dismissal on 20 February. The reason for this was the desire to prevent an escalation of public tension resulting from demonstrations against rises in the price of electricity.…
Analyses |
| Jan Muś, Jakub Groszkowski
On 7 February the Czech energy company CEZ entered into arbitration against Albania with regard to the fact that Albania revoked the distribution license of CEZ Shperndarje (76% of shares held by CEZ, 24% held by the Albanian state), which…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
On November 15, the Bulgarian state-owned gas distributor Bulgargaz signed a ten-year contract with Russian Gazprom regarding the annual purchase of 2.9 billion m3 of gas. The contract will come into force at the beginning of 2013. Details…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski, Andrzej Sadecki, Marta Szpala
Russia’s Gazprom and the state-controlled Serbian and Hungarian energy companies on 29 and 31 October passed final investment decisions concerning the construction of the Serbian and Hungarian sections of the South Stream gas pipeline.…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
On 27–29 August, Bulgaria entered into a number of important energy agreements. A contract for preparing the feasibility study for the project to develop the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant was signed with the US-Japanese corporation,…