Word: bulgaria
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...novel reflects an engagement with European history and politics and indeed its genesis is rooted in Barnes' long term interest in European history and politics. It is set in a fictional Eastern European country and is loosely based on Bulgaria. Barnes had visited the country two years ago, just after the Bulgarians had ousted their dictator and had democratic elections for the first time. He was emotionally taken by the people of the country and the emotional spur of being there...
...Security Council approved plans to bar all shipments of strategic goods through Serbia and Montenegro, including fuel, steel and chemicals. NATO and the nine-nation Western European Union last week authorized a naval blockade to intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat in Belgrade, "but things will begin to hurt very quickly...
...stiffer dose of the same medicine. The Security Council plugged the loopholes in its leaky sanctions by banning shipments through Yugoslavia of strategic goods such as petroleum products, coal, steel and chemicals, which until now have been easily diverted from imaginary destinations in Bosnia or elsewhere. While Romania and Bulgaria stiffened controls on the Danube and their borders, frigates from NATO members (including the U.S.) and the nine-nation Western European Union in the Adriatic were authorized to begin stopping sanction busters bound for Montenegro. The West hopes the pressure now being applied will unseat Milosevic and take...
...France and their neighbors. As Western investments and technical assistance take hold, the East will forge ahead. East Europeans will drop their most extreme nationalist and ethnic preoccupations in order to qualify for the economic payoffs they expect from association with the E.C. Of course, some countries, including Romania, Bulgaria and Albania, will simply not be able to transform themselves...
...Greek position is so preposterous, the suspicion persists that the complaint about the name camouflages a revival of Greece's own age- old expansionistic ambitions. Several European governments have relayed to Washington reports that Mitsotakis has secretly discussed the partition of Macedonia with Serbia and perhaps with Albania and Bulgaria as well...