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The Netherlands In Bulgaria: The Dutch Are? Coming Even Closer - Sophia Echo 26/04/2008
The Netherlands has never departed from its role as a close partner of Bulgaria, at least not since the latter entered onto its pro-European path in the early 1990s. Unlike a host of other countries whose businesses flooded Bulgaria only on European Union and Nato accession, the Netherlands did it the difficult way by, instead, co-treading aspirant member states’ path to accession. Institutionalising the building of bilateral business ties – and in a steady, perennial and concerted manner – is a policy of the Dutch government. It persists in implementing it irrespective of the partner country’s level of development and is instrumentalised with technical and financial support programmes. These programmes – PSO and Matra – have been ongoing for so long that they ring familiar to many... more

Bulgaria Opens Summer Tourist Season On May 9 15/04/2008
The summer tourist season would be officially opened on May 9, State Agency for Tourism head Anelia Kroushkova said on April 14. "An increasing number of hotel owners are looking to open for business as early as possible to take advantage of the warm weather," Kroushkova told Focus news agency. With May 1 and May 9 being official holidays in Russia, Bulgarian hotels are targeting Russian tourists at the start of the season. "We should make sure that we attract Russian [tourist] as early as May, because they have the money and also several days off in a row," Kroushkova said. Romanians, Macedonians and Serbs are also expected to flock to Bulgaria's Black Sea resorts, she added. The official opening would be held in St. Konstantin and Elena resort, which would celebrate its 100... more