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Policy Report on the Implications for Bulgaria of Regional Cooperation and the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe
The paper does not provide an exhaustive coverage of Stability Pact project areas - a task completed through various other mechanisms elsewhere – but rather an emphasis of the common approaches still missing in the implementation of Pact objectives, as seen from a Bulgarian perspective. The paper thus opted for highlighting an aspect that could be seen as obvious but whose acknowledgment is not supported by practical measures – the need for common solutions to regional stabilization and development initiated and worked out by the countries themselves. more » |
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Corruption and Trafficking: Monitoring and Prevention
This is the second updated edition under the same title, published by the Center for the Study of Democracy of its Reports/ Analyses series to be distributed among participants in Regional Coordination Meeting of Subtable "Justice and Home Affairs" of Stability Pact Working Table III, held in Sofia on October 3rd, 2000. more » |
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Bulgaria's Participation in EU Structural Funds
The present report examines the preparation of Bulgaria for future participation in the structural policies of the EU with the purpose of achieving economic and social harmonization on the basis of the introduction of principles of regional and social policy and the development of infrastructures in the area of transport and
telecommunications. more » |
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Social Policy Aspects of Bulgaria's EU Accession
Ensuring of the national social security systems' conformity with the criteria for membership in the European Union is of substantial importance for the entire process of democratisation and integration in Europe. At the same time these systems determine the internal potential of the applicant countries for accession. That is where the actuality of the questions, put in this study stems from:
What is the scope of the field of action of the economic and social criteria for integration in the social sphere? To what extent does the Bulgarian system for social protection correspond to the European models and values? more » |
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The Role of Political Parties in Bulgaria's Accession to the EU
The process of Bulgaria's EU integration is a multifaceted political, institutional, economic, socio-structural, and psychological process. It is essentially a complex social transformation aimed at establishing particular public structures, standards, consensual attitudes, and strategies, compatible with EU and acceptable to its member countries. This process involves diverse actors who cannot be reduced solely to the efforts of state institutions and above all, of the legislature and the executive. One of the most powerful, though frequently overlooked, channels bringing Bulgaria closer to EU, are political parties. more » |
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Preparing for EU Accession Negotiations
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to
some typical challenges relating to the negotiations for EU
membership, both in the short and in the medium term perspective.
This could be a contribution to the development of the various
elements of Bulgaria's preparation for accession negotiations.
Emphasis is laid on the model of negotiations, on the various
underlying principles, on the indispensable preparation for their
conducting, on some organisational and other aspects of their
successful development. In this respect, significant reflection is
devoted to the lessons to be drawn from the fourth enlargement of the Union. more » |
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