Pressebüro Savanne, Bulgaria

Contents of This Page

• Introduction and Motivation
• History
• News
• Political System
• Economics
• Society
• Arts and Literature
• Migration
• Academic Institutions in Bulgaria
• International Relations
• Human Rights / Minorities
• Fortress Europe (Festung Europa)
• Other Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
• WWW Resource Guides
• Usenet Resources
• Unsorted Links

Introduction and Motivation

News and Analysis

• Usenet news: clari.world.europe.eastern. (Only available if your Internet Service Provider subscribes to ClariNet. Otherwise, some of their news can be read at the ClariNet WWW site.)
• News Archive - Bulgarian Sources.
• AZI - Aktuelles Zeitgeschehen Informationsdienst GmbH (in German), and specifically Bulgarien: Vor der grossen Wende? (April 97; Bulgaria: Before the Great Turn?).
• SUEDOSTEUROPA - Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung (in German; only contents on-line).
• The News from the President's Chancellery service seems to be under construction.
• Politikinformation Osteuropa, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Political System

• ISN entry on Bulgaria (International Relations and Security Network database.
• The President of the Republic of Bulgaria (mirrored in U.S.A. or London, UK).
• Composition of the Caretaker Cabinet.
• Bulgarian Embassy in Washington, DC.
• National Assembly of Republic of Bulgaria (partly in Bulgarian, but contains a detailed account of the 1997 parliament session (228KB) and translations of numerous Bulgarian laws into English).

History

• Der kalte Krieg - Zeittafel (in German; the cold war - chronology). This chronology seems to be quite anti-communist, but we point to it here in case it may be useful anyway.

Economics

• Bulgaria - Trade & Marketing Information, provided by the Center for Global Trade Development (CGTD).
• Netzwerk Transformation mittel- und osteuropäischer Wissenschaftssysteme (in German; network on the transformation of Central and Eastern European economic systems)
• Central and Eastern Eurobarometer
• No. 6, March 1996 (alternatively in French)
• Sitzung der Sektion Sozialindikatoren im Rahmen des 27. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Halle with a brief resumee of Tanja Chavdarova's talk.
• Transformation als Chance - Die Mittel- und Osteuropäischen Länder (MOEL)2) als Wegbereiter einer neuen Ordnungspolitik der Europäischen Union, by Bernhard Seliger, Kiel (in German; transformation as an opportunity - the Central and East European countries as pathmakers of a new order policy of the European Union).
• Osteuropa-Themen of the Deutsche Bank (in German).
• Die Erweiterung der Europäischen Union - Probleme und Perspektiven, by Otto Schmuck, February 1994 (in German; The extension of the European Union - Problems and Prospects).
• Zur Lage der Frauen in Osteuropa, January 1996 (in German; On the situation of women in Eastern Europe).
• DIW Wochenberichte, by Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in Berlin (in German). And specifically
• WB 6/95: Die osteuropäischen Länder als Produzenten, Verbraucher und Exporteure von Mangan, Chrom, Nickel und Molybdän, by Peter Eggert and Eberhard Wettig.
• WB 8/95: Bulgarien: Anzeichen fuer ein Ende der Rezession, by Maria Lodahl and Ulrich Thiessen.
• WB 15/95: Wirtschaftliche Erholung in Ostmitteleuropa - anhaltende Krise in den Ländern der GUS.
• WB 5/96: Transformationsländer und multilaterales Handelssystem: Schnellere Einbindung erforderlich, by Siegfried Schultz.
• WB 18/96: Kräftiges Wirtschaftswachstum in den mitteleuropäischen Reformländern - Stagnation in der GUS.
• WB 44/96: Vorübergehende Abschwächung der Expansion in Mitteleuropa - weiterer Produktionsrückgang in der GUS.
• WB 49/96: Osterweiterung der EU: Finanzierung erfordert Reformen, by Christian Weise.
• WB 1/97: Fortsetzung der Expansion in Mitteleuropa, weitere Abschwächung in der GUS.
• WB 5/97: Europäische Union: Osterweiterung und Arbeitskräftemigration, by Fritz Franzmeyer and Herbert Brücker.
• WB 11/97: Ausländische Direktinvestitionen in den Transformationsländern, by Siegfried Schultz.
• WB 14/97: Europäische Union: Osterweiterung beschleunigt Konvergenz, by Herbert Brücker.
• WB 17/97: Lebhaftes Wachstum in den mitteleuropäischen Reformländern - noch keine Wende in den GUS-Ländern.
• Anlage-Management: Osteuropa erneut im Blickfeld der Investoren, by Deutsche Bank (in German).
• Krise in Bulgarien - SGB ruft zu Hilfe auf, by SGB-Pressedienst (Schweizerischer Gewerkschaftsbund - Association of Swiss Trade Unions).
• Jahresbericht der [deutschen] Bundesregierung 1996 - Bundesministerium der Finanzen -Internationale Währungs- und Finanzbeziehungen: Europäische Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung.
• The Privatization Agency.

Society

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde e.V. (DGO)

Arts and Literature

• Welkya - International Web Magazine for Art and Literature.
• MOFT art exhibit between US and Bulgarian artists (February 1998).

Migration

• International Refugee Documentation Network (IRDN)

Academic Institutions in Bulgaria

• University Sofia: Faculties and Departments
• The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Social sciences
• Bulgaria RTD Info
• Major events in Central and Eastern Europe 1995
• RTD Events in Central and Eastern Europe 1995/96
• University of Plovdiv.
• St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University
• The University of Rousse.
• The New Bulgarian University.
• The American University in Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad. (North American users should connect to the AUBG mirror site in Washington, D.C.)

International Relations

• American Embassy Sofia.

Human Rights / Minorities

• 1996 Human Rights Report of the United States Embassy to Italy.

Fortress Europe (Festung Europa)

• Die Zukunft des internationalen Systems: eine sozialdemokratische Perspektive, by Egon Bahr (in German; the future of the international system: a social democratic perspective), in the series Gelbe Hefte, No. 35, Zürich 1994.
• Das gemeinsame Regierungsprogramm von CDU und CSU, Kapitel V, Wir schützen die Sicherheit der Bürger und erhalten den inneren Frieden (in German).

Other Countries of Central and Eastern Europe

• Poland:
• WB 47/95 of DIW: Polens Weg in die Europäische Union, by Christian Weise (in German; Poland's way towards the European Union).
• Romania:
• WB 22/95 of DIW: Rumänien: Produktionsbelebung bei verschleppter Privatisierung, by Hella Engerer (in German; Romania: Revival of production though privatization dragging).
• Ukraine:
• WB 18/97 of DIW: Schattenwirtschaft in Osteuropa: Das Beispiel der Ukraine, by Ulrich Thiessen (in German; Shadow economy in Eastern Europe: The example of Ukraine).
• Various:
• Trendwende in Ostmitteleuropa? Wahlen in Polen und Ungarn, by Henrik Bischof (in German, with English abstract; Change of trend in Eastern Central Europe? Elections in Poland and Hungary).

WWW Resource Guides

• Bulgaria on the Web, by the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria, Washington DC.
• All About Bulgaria.
• The Bulgarian Home Page.
• The Bulgarian Studies Association, based in Pittsburgh, PA, maintains a list of web resources about Bulgaria.
• The Republic of Bulgaria.
• The Bulgarian Media Connection.
• Bulgaria.Com.
• Sofia.Com.

Usenet News Resources

• soc.culture.bulgaria (Informal discussion of Bulgarian issues).
• clari.world.europe.eastern. Wire stories about breaking news in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Belarus, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia, etc.). No discussion or posting allowed. (Only available if your Internet Service Provider subscribes to ClariNet. Otherwise, some of their news can be read at the ClariNet WWW site.)
• clari.world.europe.balkans. Wire stories about breaking news in Balkans (seems to be confined to former Yugoslavia). No discussion or posting allowed. (Only available if your Internet Service Provider subscribes to ClariNet. Otherwise, some of their news can be read at the ClariNet WWW site.)

Unsorted links (meaning: sorted only alphabetically)

1. Open Society Foundation