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Boncheva, Juliana
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Deactivated nuclear power plant to resume operation?
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov argued on Tuesday that the deactivated block three of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant should once more be put into operation. Sega newspaper agreees with the proposal and suggests a referendum on the issue: "Things were handled much better in Lithuania, for example. There the parliamentary elections were combined with a referendum on Ignalina power plant. This summer Bulgaria will elect representatives for the national and European parliaments. Should we not also think about killing three birds with one stone? In times of crisis every country must look to its reserves. ... Putting the blocks of Kosloduj power plant back into operation would mean producing cheaper electricity. Bulgaria could then raise its energy exports. ... And the cheaper energy would help the country's ailing chemical industry, metallurgy and machine building sectors."
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Corruption in the highest places
In the past few days Bulgarian media have published an internal report by OLAF, the European Commission's anti-fraud office, on the embezzlement of funds in Bulgaria. It confirms rumours that the election campaign of President Georgi Parvanov was financed by dubious businessmen: "In the year 1999 Hillary Clinton refused to accept a 1,000-dollar cheque from the widow of Bulgarian mafia boss Iliya Pavlov. Parvanov, on the other hand, received 25,000 euros from the notorious businessman Ludmil Stoykov in 2006 and never gave back a single euro, neither when the SAPARD scandal [the freezing of EU subsidies] became public nor when the state prosecution charged Stoykov with money laundering. And even now that the OLAF report has been made public and it says in black and white that Stoykov belongs to an international criminal network, the presidency remains silent."
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