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...Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha...
...Drug Enforcement Administration, Europol and Interpol. Though counterfeit euros pose no threat to Bulgaria's economy (the country is not joining the E.U. until 2007 at the earliest and use of the currency is probably a decade away), Borissov, a former bodyguard to the Prime Minster, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, wants to be seen as a loyal soldier to the West in the war on fakes. Next June, the country is hosting a Europe-wide conference on forging currency. "It's a question of honor," says Borissov. "We want to prove that Bulgaria is ready for Europe, that...
...poverty line, Bulgaria is far from meeting the E.U.'s strict fiscal requirements. Veltchev, 36, grew up in Sofia and did graduate business studies at the University of Rochester and M.I.T. He left Merrill Lynch in London for a cabinet post in the new government of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in July 2001. Bulgaria was engulfed in a wave of nostalgia-tinged optimism inspired by the new Prime Minister - also the country's former child King. Within a year, the party's ratings had plummeted; Veltchev's decision to award a contract to reform Bulgaria's corruption-plagued customs service...
...Princess Mathilde of Belgium, for example, has a royal bun in the oven and if she delivers a girl, new laws would allow the child to become the first sovereign Queen of the Belgians. (And she wouldn't have to be named Albert.) Bulgaria's King Simeon Borisov Saxe-Coburg, forced from the throne in 1946 at the age of nine, is running for parliament and could conceivably become Prime Minister?and maybe King once more. In Japan last week, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced he was in favor of ditching a centuries-old tradition that requires the Emperor...
...royals emerges, one that sees them less as a family than as a confederation of strange ducks and isolated boobs whose presently debased and demystified state may have been ordained when they made their first bargain with the p.r. devil and changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor during World War I. "We recognize them for what they are," Kelley quotes an anonymous viscountess as saying. "They are undereducated and ill-informed Germans, and they need our help...