Wintersports Rediscovered
Campaigns against what environmental groups believe is illegal building activities around Bulgaria ski resorts stepped up ahead of a planned visit by the chairperson of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso.
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A Danish member of the European Parliament (MEP) Margarete Auken visited Bulgaria earlier this month and, according to a report in the Sofia Echo, “ left the country with the impression that the problems with the Bulgarian nature were very serious and linked closely to organised crime, which destroys the nature and transforms it into money.”
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The Bulgarian government have decided not to allow construction on national park land that was previously designated Part of the Natura 2000 protected areas.
There is some dispute as to whether this was a reaction to pressure from EC Government or not, who according to some reports were threatening to instigate penalties against Bulgaria and cut the land officially included as part of the Natura 2000 protected land from about a third of Bulgaria’s territory to about a fifth.
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Work on the long planned Super Borovets resort, close to Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, has been officially launched by the country’s Prime Minister, Serghei Stanishev, along with the former prime minister and opposition leader, at a ceremony this past week. Continue reading ‘Bulgarian PM Attends Launch of Super Borovets Resort Development’