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Georgieva, Svetlana
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Tsankov was not an investigative journalist
The former radio journalist Boris Tsankov, who was shot dead this week on the streets of Sofia, has been depicted by many Western media as an investigative journalist. The daily Dnevnik says this is a misunderstanding: "To describe Boris Tsankov as an investigative journalist is unfair to genuine investigative journalism, of which there is very little here in Bulgaria. The Western journalists can't know this. The misunderstanding stems from major differences in how the legal and media areas function in their states and in our country. This also applies to the tabloids. In our tabloids you can get away with writing irresponsibly about anything and anyone with impunity. So it's no mere coincidence that Tsankov's book about his direct ties to the underworld appeared there in the form of articles."
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More from the press review on the subject » Print media, » Online media, » Bulgaria
Criticism of Bulgaria's holiday legislation
A large number of Bulgarian civil servants took no holidays in the past years and the country lacks reasonable legislation that regulates when the right to take holidays expires. As a result the Bulgarian state will now have to pay its employees 200 million euros in compensation. The daily Dnevnik criticises the state's failure to take action sooner: "What can this situation be compared with? It could be compared with a bank going bankrupt because all its customers stormed into its branches at the same time to take out all their savings, including the interest. Another analogy would be a free insurance policy that could be terminated at any time. This corresponds to the situation now. And the trick would be that the 'policy holder' would receive loads of money if his or her employment contract were to be terminated. And it wouldn't matter whether he or she actually took holidays or not in all those years. This completely crazy state of affairs has arisen owing to legal loopholes."
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More from the press review on the subject » Bulgaria
Strange satisfaction
The daily Dnevnik comments on the satisfaction of Bulgarian politicians with the EU's progress reports: "Everybody is happy! That is the impressive result of the EU's progress report on home affairs and justice in Bulgaria. The ministers retiring from office breathed a sigh of relief that the report does not contain a 'safeguard clause' [measures to prevent particular problems or threats to the orderly functioning of the EU] which would have been the icing on the government's rotten cake. Seen in this light all criticism looks like a friendly pat on the back. ... What more do we want, after we have been allowed to board an extra carriage (really a horse-drawn cart) attached to the EU train specially for us (and Romania) - even if it is unlikely that we will soon find ourselves in a better situation."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU enlargement, » EU Policy, » Europe, » Bulgaria
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