Announcing the inaugural meeting of the Balkan Anti-Nuclear Coalition (BANC)

16.03.2011

Zelenite (The Bulgarian Greens) express their deepest sympathy and condolences to the many thousands who have lost family, friends, and property due to the earthquake in Japan and the tsunami that followed. Our hopes are with the thousands still being unaccounted or evacuated from the region affected by the series of incidents at the Fukushima nuclear power-plants.

We аrе deeply alarmed after learning of the series of explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site, in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami which shook Japan last Friday. These incidents demonstrate the price to be paid for exaggerate technological optimism and for underestimating the risks of nuclear technology. The incidents should be a wakeup call forcing us to re-evaluate our Balkan and European energy strategies and mid and long term planning of our region’s energy security policies. Unfortunately, several governments in our region are pushing ahead with their plans of building new nuclear facilities or prolonging the expected lifetime of existing plants. These short-sighted plans, dictated by greed, personal interests and the russian nuclear lobby must be stopped at any price.

In order to achieve the goal of nuclear-free Balkans, several green parties and NGOs in the region are initiating the Balkan Anti-Nuclear Coalition (BANC). The idea for this coalition was first discussed at the last EGP Council meeting in Tallinn and was officially announced in December last year at a regional meeting of green parties in Skopje, Macedonia.

The inaugural meeting of the Balkan Anti-Nuclear Coalition will take place on March, 26 in Sofia (Bulgaria). The goal of the first meeting is to decide on short-term common actions and a long-term strategy aiming to stop the planned construction of additional nuclear plants. The Balkan countries must also phase out existing nuclear facilities. A draft resolution to be voted at the EGP Council meeting in the beginning of April shall also be adopted. The date of the meeting coincides with the Earth’s Hour and this could be also our first public event.

The coalition is open to all green parties and NGOs of the Balkan region whose goal is to see the complete abandoning of nuclear energy.  The aim is also to decide on a coordinating board who shall include one green party and one NGO member from each country.

The meeting venue will be announced shortly. We will try to provide online conference facilities (Skype). The organizers (Zelenite and the coalition „BeleNE!“) will provide the venue and accommodation, but unfortunately are unable reimburse travel expenses.

We apologise for the very short notice. After consulting with members of the EGP and regional sister parties, and following the tragic events in Japan, it was clear that there is an urgent need to rush out the original planning. Shortly we will be sending additional information as well as an agenda proposal and a draft version for the EGP resolution to be voted at the Budapest council meeting.

Please send conformation of your participation, as well as questions, comments and suggestions to the organizers of the meeting:

Borislav Sandov
Email: borislav.sandov@gmail.com
Mobile: +359-887-096-757

Georg Tuparev
Email: tuparev@zelenite.bg
Mobile: +31-6-55798196
Skype: georg_tuparev



Invitation: “Warm welcome” of Putin street protests in Bulgaria, Saturday, 13.11.2010

09.11.2010

Dear green Friends,

A highest level Russian delegation lead by the Prime-Minister Putin himself is expected this coming Saturday here in Bulgaria. The main goal is to bring forward the negotiations on some of the biggest and strategically important Russian energy projects like Belene nuclear plant and the oil and natural gas pipelines like Burgas-Alexandroupoli and South Stream.

Zelenite are organizing our already traditional “warm welcome” street protests this very Saturday on the biggest central square of Sofia – The Eagle Bridge, where the delegation will pass through *). We will be joined by several non-governmental organizations and hopefully by many of our followers. The main focus of our discontent is:
1. The grand energy projects – both environmentally and economically harmful and unsustainable, including our ever growing dependence on Russian energy supplies, and
2. The pity state of the democracy and freedom of speech in Russia and our solidarity with everyone who disagrees with the ever stronger and brutal police state imposed upon Russian citizens.

Zelenite will appreciate your support – either if you decide to join us in the streets of Sofia or decide to make local protests in front of Bulgarian and Russian diplomatic missions in your countries, write about these events in the media or express your discontent to the Bulgarian and Russian governments. We will warmly welcome other more creative ideas.

Best wishes,

Georg Tuparev,
co-chair
Zelenite/The Greens, Bulgaria
Mobile: +31-6-55798196
Email: tuparev@zelenite.bg

Contact persons:
Kristina Dimitrova kristina.dimitrova@zelenite.bg mobile +359 887 96 58 69
Borislav Sandov borislav.sandov@zelenite.bg mobile +359 887 096 757

*) The exact timing of Putin’s arrival is kept secret, so we will make an all-day protest, just to make it sure everyone knows what we think of all this political insanity.



The Black Sea Countries: Partners for ecology and democracy? Green East-West Dialogue, Conference of the Black Sea Greens, 29-31 October 2010

29.10.2010

The Greens from the Black Sea countries will celebrate together the international Black Sea day on a conference to be held in Sofia in the period 29-31 October 2010.

The main topics of the conference are:

*Energy and Nature in the Black Sea Region: Focus Bulgaria

*Black Sea Countries: Partners for Democracy and Ecology?

*Can the Oil Spill of the Mexican Gulf happen in the Black Sea?

*Minorities in National States around the Black Sea

Some of the speakers will be:

1) Michail Tremopoulis (Member of the European Parliament)
2) Daniela Bozhinova (Co-chair of Zelenite /The Greens/)
3) Alexei Kozlov (Groza, Russian Federation)
4) Ümit Şahin (Co-spokesperson of Turkish Greens)

The Black Sea Conference is organized and financially supported by GEF (The Green European Foundation), Brussels and Stichting Wetenschappelijk Bureau GroenLinks, Utrecht with active participation of Zelenite/The Greens, Bulgaria.

The Program of the Meeting available here:BSD_Programme_Vers_03

ZELENITE/The Greens



Bulgaria Greens: Delay Means ‘Yes’ to Burgas-Alexandroupolis Oil Pipeline

17.12.2009

The Bulgaria Greens Party has called for immediate suspension of the Russian-sponsored Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline.

This has been stated Tuesday by the Co-Chair of the Bulgaria Greens, Petko Kovachev, who said the international agreement for the project signed in 2007 between Bulgaria, Greece, and Russia provided for no fixed financial sanctions for leaving it.

Thus, the Greens believe that Bulgaria’s participation in the project could be terminated with a simple decision of the Parliament.

The Greens think that making the realization of the project conditional on the environmental assessment to be prepared by the Bulgarian Environment Ministry – something which was made clear last week by Bulgaria’s Economy Minister Traicho Traikov – was going to delay the realization of the oil pipeline by 1,5 year.

Yet, the Greens believe delaying the project over the assessment is a way in which the government of the GERB party actually says “yes” to its realization.

The Greens Party also says there are many undecided issues over the construction of the Nabucco and South Stream gas transit pipelines, including their routes.

They oppose the participation of Russia in the project for constructing the Belene Nuclear Power Plant because they thing that this way the interests of foreign powers would be served. Kovachev has pointed out that Bulgaria had “buried” BGN 800 M in the Belene project in the last few years.

“The major question hanging over the three large-scale Russian sponsored energy projects in Bulgaria – the Belene NPP, South Stream, and Burgas-Alexandroupolis – has to do with whether the GERB government will decide to haggle over them with President Parvanov, who has been trying to meddle in that field for years,” Greens Co-Chair Kovachev said.

source: novinite.com



За ЗЕЛЕНИТЕ в APCNews: Grass root(er)s: Green e-activists of Eastern Europe enter politics

06.08.2009

Страницата за новини на международната мрежа от организации Association for Progressive Communications (APC) публикува анализ на Павел Антонов за появата на ЗЕЛЕНИТЕ и на унгарската партия Lehet Más a Politika! (Политиката може да бъде различна!) на изборите за Европейски парламент.

APC е основана 1990 г. и осигурява комуникационна инфраструктура на групи и личности работещи за мир, човешки права, опазване на околната среда и устойчивост. Организацията има съвещателен глас към Икономическия и социален съвет (ECOSOC) на Обединените Нации.

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Indeed, members of the For the Nature coalition had been campaigning for months against the non-transparent practice of exchanging cheaper forests for state-owned green areas along the Black Sea coast and in the high mountains, which would immediately be turned into construction development sites. But activists found it hard to believe that their repeated signals to Bulgaria’s law enforcement agencies and parliament and the EU, had actually worked. “The DANS had never budged before,” explained Stefan Avramov of the Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation, who emailed the coalition’s mailing list. But scepticism aside, the greens had to face the fact that they had once again appeared at the right time and place to topple yet another Goliath breaching the public’s environmental interests. And internet communications had been the catapult in their hands.
The public had already faced it, with spontaneous citizen actions against the tourist construction bonanza in the mountains and along the Black Sea coast, sprawling from internet chat rooms and the blogosphere onto the streets of Sofia and other major cities since 2007. Two years later, flying on the wings of their rediscovered ability to set the public agenda, activists were ready to claim a stake in the country’s representative democracy system and run for elections with their own political party called Zelenite (the Greens).

Indeed, members of the For the Nature coalition had been campaigning for months against the non-transparent practice of exchanging cheaper forests for state-owned green areas along the Black Sea coast and in the high mountains, which would immediately be turned into construction development sites. But activists found it hard to believe that their repeated signals to Bulgaria’s law enforcement agencies and parliament and the EU, had actually worked. “The DANS had never budged before,” explained Stefan Avramov of the Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation, who emailed the coalition’s mailing list. But scepticism aside, the greens had to face the fact that they had once again appeared at the right time and place to topple yet another Goliath breaching the public’s environmental interests. And internet communications had been the catapult in their hands.

The public had already faced it, with spontaneous citizen actions against the tourist construction bonanza in the mountains and along the Black Sea coast, sprawling from internet chat rooms and the blogosphere onto the streets of Sofia and other major cities since 2007. Two years later, flying on the wings of their rediscovered ability to set the public agenda, activists were ready to claim a stake in the country’s representative democracy system and run for elections with their own political party called Zelenite (the Greens).


Bulgaria's youngest green party is growing
Zelenite campagin: Let’s reclaim the state for the citizens
If common roots in the green movement is the first striking similarity between Zelenite in Sofia and LMP in Budapest, their reliance on the internet and online networking is certainly the second, beginning with the large-scale internet presence, through which both parties imposed to meet their respective countries’ formal requirements for participation in the elections. With the help of online signatures and money donations, Zelenite’s last minute happy-ending registration for the EU ballot was not less exciting. And while the two parties’ results (2.6 per cent of the vote for LMP and only 0.72 for Zelenite) were certainly no match for the great expectations and enthusiasm of their supporters, they were read as a distinguishable claim for future presence in both countries by political analysts.

e-networking in action
Both Zelenite and LMP campaigned aggressively online, aiming to raise their profile and consolidate support among young voters withinternet access, said representatives from Political Capital – a think tank that operates in both countries. Not surprisingly, internet and communication rights have found a prominent space in the Zelenite’s programme . The party’s campaign and election ballot featured Bogo Shopov, one of the faces of the online communication rights struggle in Bulgaria. This aspect of Zelenite’s campaign reflected a powerful public reaction against the infringement of freedom of both online and traditional forms of expression by state bodies and new policies aimed at the establishment of data retention.

But similarities do not stop here. Both parties had their electoral lists populated by young faces, well familiar to the public with their activist past: people like András Schiffer, a Védegylet activist since Sólyom’s presidential crusade, and Andrey Kovachev, the chair of Balkani – Sofia and a veteran from the media battles against the construction lobbyists. E-networking activists linked to APC’s members in Hungary and Bulgaria, were actively involved as well. BlueLink had at some point two of its Board members in Zelenite’s leadership, and its chairwoman Natalia Dimitrova ran for election in the European Parliament on Zelenite’s ticket. In Hungary Green Spider members were involved with ELP since its very start.



Grass root(er)s: Green e-activists of Eastern Europe enter politics

06.08.2009
By Pavel Antonov for APCNews
SOFIA, Bulgaria, 28 July 2009
Zelenite campagin: Let’s reclaim the state for the citizens
News that the Bulgarian national security agency (DANS) had raided the offices of the State forestry agency in Sofia back in March caught green activists by surprise. Particularly because news suggested that reports by ”ecologists” were the reason for the Hollywood-style action in Bulgaria’s Ministry of Agriculture.
Indeed, members of the For the Nature coalition had been campaigning for months against the non-transparent practice of exchanging cheaper forests for state-owned green areas along the Black Sea coast and in the high mountains, which would immediately be turned into construction development sites. But activists found it hard to believe that their repeated signals to Bulgaria’s law enforcement agencies and parliament and the EU, had actually worked. “The DANS had never budged before,” explained Stefan Avramov of the Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation, who emailed the coalition’s mailing list. But scepticism aside, the greens had to face the fact that they had once again appeared at the right time and place to topple yet another Goliath breaching the public’s environmental interests. And internet communications had been the catapult in their hands.
The public had already faced it, with spontaneous citizen actions against the tourist construction bonanza in the mountains and along the Black Sea coast, sprawling from internet chat rooms and the blogosphere onto the streets of Sofia and other major cities since 2007. Two years later, flying on the wings of their rediscovered ability to set the public agenda, activists were ready to claim a stake in the country’s representative democracy system and run for elections with their own political party called Zelenite (the Greens).
Green politicians also sprout in Hungary
Success in the face of the political establishment is not unique to Bulgarian green activism. In an almost identical scenario, Hungary’s green movement has also launched a new political party called Politics Can Be Different (in Hungarian: Lehet Más a Politika!, or LMP). ). In a dramatic last-minute move, LMP registered for the June 7 European Parliament elections, in coalition with the Humanist Union of Hungary.
The new party was built upon a broad public movement, which has catapulted former Constitutional Court Chair László Sólyom to President back in 2005 following popular protests against the construction of a NATO radar station in the Mount Zengõ protected area.
If common roots in the green movement is the first striking similarity between Zelenite in Sofia and LMP in Budapest, their reliance on the internet and online networking is certainly the second, beginning with the large-scale internet presence, through which both parties imposed to meet their respective countries’ formal requirements for participation in the elections. With the help of online signatures and money donations, Zelenite’s last minute happy-ending registration for the EU ballot was not less exciting. And while the two parties’ results (2.6 per cent of the vote for LMP and only 0.72 for Zelenite) were certainly no match for the great expectations and enthusiasm of their supporters, they were read as a distinguishable claim for future presence in both countries by political analysts.
e-networking in action
Both Zelenite and LMP campaigned aggressively online, aiming to raise their profile and consolidate support among young voters with internet access, said representatives from Political Capital – a think tank that operates in both countries. Not surprisingly, internet and communication rights have found a prominent space in the Zelenite’s programme . The party’s campaign and election ballot featured Bogo Shopov, one of the faces of the online communication rights struggle in Bulgaria. This aspect of Zelenite’s campaign reflected a powerful public reaction against the infringement of freedom of both online and traditional forms of expression by state bodies and new policies aimed at the establishment of data retention.
But similarities do not stop here. Both parties had their electoral lists populated by young faces, well familiar to the public with their activist past: people like András Schiffer, a Védegylet activist since Sólyom’s presidential crusade, and Andrey Kovachev, the chair of Balkani – Sofia and a veteran from the media battles against the construction lobbyists. E-networking activists linked to APC’s members in Hungary and Bulgaria, were actively involved as well. BlueLink had at some point two of its Board members in Zelenite’s leadership, and its chairwoman Natalia Dimitrova ran for election in the European Parliament on Zelenite’s ticket. In Hungary Green Spider members were involved with ELP since its very start.
Green politics not everyone’s cup of tea
But the transition to real politics is not to everyone’s liking within activists’ ranks. Prominent Hungarian groups like HuMuSz, FoE Hungary, and Nimfea, have chosen not to get formally involved with the party, although some of their members and leaders are part of it. Some activists fear that party politics will disturb their actions in Bulgaria as well. “The party is draining too many resources and energy from the activist sector, and may leave it bloodless and disheartened if it fails,” said Ilian Iliev of the Public Environmental Centre for Sustainable Development in Varna, Bulgaria. Iliev, another BlueLink founder and Board member, has been a founding member of Zelenite since its very start, but has refused to leave his civil society work to campaign for elections.
Such a pessimistic scenario is not at all unlikely, argued Petr Jehlicka, a UK-based researcher of post-socialist and civil society developments. Jehlicka warned that a similar move towards party politics in the Czech Republic during the past years had actually resulted in the loss of human power by NGOs.

By Pavel Antonov for APCNews

SOFIA, Bulgaria, 28 July 2009

Zelenite campagin: Let’s reclaim the state for the citizens

News that the Bulgarian national security agency (DANS) had raided the offices of the State forestry agency in Sofia back in March caught green activists by surprise. Particularly because news suggested that reports by ”ecologists” were the reason for the Hollywood-style action in Bulgaria’s Ministry of Agriculture.

Indeed, members of the For the Nature coalition had been campaigning for months against the non-transparent practice of exchanging cheaper forests for state-owned green areas along the Black Sea coast and in the high mountains, which would immediately be turned into construction development sites. But activists found it hard to believe that their repeated signals to Bulgaria’s law enforcement agencies and parliament and the EU, had actually worked. “The DANS had never budged before,” explained Stefan Avramov of the Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation, who emailed the coalition’s mailing list. But scepticism aside, the greens had to face the fact that they had once again appeared at the right time and place to topple yet another Goliath breaching the public’s environmental interests. And internet communications had been the catapult in their hands.

The public had already faced it, with spontaneous citizen actions against the tourist construction bonanza in the mountains and along the Black Sea coast, sprawling from internet chat rooms and the blogosphere onto the streets of Sofia and other major cities since 2007. Two years later, flying on the wings of their rediscovered ability to set the public agenda, activists were ready to claim a stake in the country’s representative democracy system and run for elections with their own political party called Zelenite (the Greens).

Green politicians also sprout in Hungary

Success in the face of the political establishment is not unique to Bulgarian green activism. In an almost identical scenario, Hungary’s green movement has also launched a new political party called Politics Can Be Different (in Hungarian: Lehet Más a Politika!, or LMP). ). In a dramatic last-minute move, LMP registered for the June 7 European Parliament elections, in coalition with the Humanist Union of Hungary.

The new party was built upon a broad public movement, which has catapulted former Constitutional Court Chair László Sólyom to President back in 2005 following popular protests against the construction of a NATO radar station in the Mount Zengõ protected area.

If common roots in the green movement is the first striking similarity between Zelenite in Sofia and LMP in Budapest, their reliance on the internet and online networking is certainly the second, beginning with the large-scale internet presence, through which both parties imposed to meet their respective countries’ formal requirements for participation in the elections. With the help of online signatures and money donations, Zelenite’s last minute happy-ending registration for the EU ballot was not less exciting. And while the two parties’ results (2.6 per cent of the vote for LMP and only 0.72 for Zelenite) were certainly no match for the great expectations and enthusiasm of their supporters, they were read as a distinguishable claim for future presence in both countries by political analysts.

Both Zelenite and LMP campaigned aggressively online, aiming to raise their profile and consolidate support among young voters with internet access, said representatives from Political Capital – a think tank that operates in both countries. Not surprisingly, internet and communication rights have found a prominent space in the Zelenite’s programme . The party’s campaign and election ballot featured Bogo Shopov, one of the faces of the online communication rights struggle in Bulgaria. This aspect of Zelenite’s campaign reflected a powerful public reaction against the infringement of freedom of both online and traditional forms of expression by state bodies and new policies aimed at the establishment of data retention.

But similarities do not stop here. Both parties had their electoral lists populated by young faces, well familiar to the public with their activist past: people like András Schiffer, a Védegylet activist since Sólyom’s presidential crusade, and Andrey Kovachev, the chair of Balkani – Sofia and a veteran from the media battles against the construction lobbyists. E-networking activists linked to APC’s members in Hungary and Bulgaria, were actively involved as well. BlueLink had at some point two of its Board members in Zelenite’s leadership, and its chairwoman Natalia Dimitrova ran for election in the European Parliament on Zelenite’s ticket. In Hungary Green Spider members were involved with ELP since its very start.

Green politics not everyone’s cup of tea

But the transition to real politics is not to everyone’s liking within activists’ ranks. Prominent Hungarian groups like HuMuSz, FoE Hungary, and Nimfea, have chosen not to get formally involved with the party, although some of their members and leaders are part of it. Some activists fear that party politics will disturb their actions in Bulgaria as well. “The party is draining too many resources and energy from the activist sector, and may leave it bloodless and disheartened if it fails,” said Ilian Iliev of the Public Environmental Centre for Sustainable Development in Varna, Bulgaria. Iliev, another BlueLink founder and Board member, has been a founding member of Zelenite since its very start, but has refused to leave his civil society work to campaign for elections.

Such a pessimistic scenario is not at all unlikely, argued Petr Jehlicka, a UK-based researcher of post-socialist and civil society developments. Jehlicka warned that a similar move towards party politics in the Czech Republic during the past years had actually resulted in the loss of human power by NGOs.

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За ЗЕЛЕНИТЕ в Living on Earth,USA: Politics Grow Green in Bulgaria

21.07.2009

Популярната американска уеб базирана „зелена“ медия „Living on Earth“ излъчи и публикува обширен журналистически материал за ЗЕЛЕНИТЕ.

Седмичната радио-програма на „Living on Earth“ се излъчва от над 300 радиостанции по цялата територия на САЩ.

Ето връзка към самия аудио-запис от излъчения на 17 юли материала на журналиста Матю Брунуейзър:

Аудио- „Politics Grow Green in Bulgaria“

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Several generations of Eastern Europeans were discouraged from taking part in politics. That legacy lives on but in Bulgaria, youth are cutting through the apathy with a politics based on their love of the planet. From Bulgaria, Matthew Brunwasser reports.

BRUNWASSER: It was here on a beach called Irakli, that a young generation of environmentalists stepped in to fight a proposed vacation village. Most Bulgarians didn’t believe it was possible for citizens to do anything about unchecked development. There was a sense that Irakli was the only place left untouched on the entire Black Sea coast. The protestors won a year-long ban on construction and a movement was born.

[SOUNDS OF A CROWD]

BRUNWASSER: Genady Kondarev, at 27 a movement veteran, says that after the lies of Communism and rocky ride of capitalism, Bulgarians have already lost a lot.

KONDAREV: And the one thing that they can touch they can feel they can see is the Bulgarian nature. They know this is something beautiful, they know it’s a treasure that we have.


Genady Kondarev, candidate for parliament, in the Greens’ information tent in the center of Sofia talking to voters. (Photo: Claudia Yi Leon)

They know their grey cities, they know their Communist architecture, the grey blocks, the slowly decreasing spaces and gardens between these blocks. And they miss it; they want clean air. They want these normal things that should be actually a basic human right.

BRUNWASSER: So in what represented a major decision on strategy, the new environmentalists decided to form a political party, the Bulgarian Greens. It’s a shoestring operation, so there was little money for ads like this one.

[RADIO AD IN BULGARIAN]

VOICEOVER: We’re the greens. You know us from the protests to defend Irakli and the mountains. We’ve had our victories, but we want more… to preserve the nature of Bulgaria, unique in Europe for all its magnificence.

BRUNWASSER: The party had the funding to air this commercial on the national radio exactly three times. So the Greens mainly reach THE people by speaking to them directly, often from information tents they set up on streets around the country.

BRUNWASSER: The greens have clearly made politics fun. But when the votes were counted in recent parliamentary elections, the party got 22,000 votes, less than the 1% they were hoping for. That would have won them state support, like an office. No one expected the 4% needed to enter the Parliament. Yet Kondarev says the campaign has made them tough, and taught them how to fight.


Genady Kondarev bangs spoons in the march „lets make noise for nature.“

KONDAREV: I think everyone believes now that this party is an alternative, that this is a way to bring change in Bulgaria. And everyone from left to right is trying to flirt with us, trying to get us on their side.

BRUNWASSER: Everyone is trying to get us on their side now, he says. The big parties in Bulgaria now have environmental planks in their programs. And all are eager to harness the energy of the earnest young Greens. Almost 20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, youth, and concern about the environment are healing the political wounds of Communism. The Greens say they have just gotten started.

Към целия материал в Living on Earth



THE GREENS are going to the elections for MEP with Nr. 12!

14.05.2009

Dear Friends,

We did not announce the news immediately because we wanted to be sure we are not dreaming. Аs you have probably read – THE GREENS ARE GOING TO THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS WITH Nr. 12 IN THE INTEGRAL VOTING PAPER!

Until late afternoon yesterday the entire elections headquarters, governing body and all our supporters were at the edge of madness. No one was sure if the laws will be obeyed and that our registration will be allowed. In this case they were obeyed and we are going to the elections. We had no doubts that we will gather necessary support – money and signatures. We are happy that we were right! Прочетете остатъка от публикацията »



Who’s to blame in the European Commission for the delay on the complaints about destroying the Bulgarian nature?

08.05.2009

Today a letter was submitted in the EC Representative Office in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is addressed to the European Ombudsman and the Commission itself, and it’s a complaint. This complaint ends with a disturbingly long list of scandalous cases of destruction and outrages against some of the most valuable pieces of wild nature in Bulgaria. So? – You are going to say – Europe is a clumsy machine anyway… it takes a while before it starts stirring. Yes, but No. The mentioned cases have long ago went over any administrative deadline for response or any average time for a complaint to be worked on. And we are talking about a catastrophe here in Bulgaria. Прочетете остатъка от публикацията »



Letter of complaint to the European Ombudsman and the Commission – Concerning the slow progress of a series of petitions in behalf of NATURA 2000

08.05.2009

To:
European Ombudsman
European Commission

Reference: Complaint against the bad administration by the EC of the complaints of the Bulgarian non-governmental organisations concerning the lack of protection of the NATURA 2000 sites in Bulgaria

From: The political party THE GREENS

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Dear Sirs and Madams,

We hereby request a complete investigation of the way that the EN.A.2 Infringement Department of the General-Directorate Environment of the European Commission processes and assesses complaints submitted by Bulgarian non-governmental organisations concerning the breach of Community laws about NATURA 2000 by the Bulgarian government.

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