Petya Stavreva:
Bonuses in the Country of Lady-Birds

Bulgarian Villages – a Life’s Drama or an Extinct Species

Will Bulgarian Forests Become an Unfenced Plot?
Changes to a law will provide incentives to wood-cutting and illegal construction in natural parks, believe environmentalists

Vote Number 34 for the European Development of Elin Pelin!

Veliko Zlatanov, UA mayor-candidate Valchetran v. and Pordim list leader: We Need a New Beginning

Presenting the Poet-Agrarian Manol Manolov

Brussels is Being Notified About the “Avren” Case
A New Scandal in the Seaside Municipality: BSP Attracts Agrarian Ballots by Misrepresentation

Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser, Honorary UA Chair:
The Agrarian Industry – a Must Priority for Bulgaria

Dr. Antoni Galabov:
UA feature a New Political Profile

Bulgaria is still the poorest country in the EU, hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians are living on the edge of poverty, but on the other hand the Bulgarian clerks receive generous additional monetary incentives – bonuses. They were lawful, repeat one after the other government representatives. The issue is whether it is moral, after our administration demonstrates sustainable efforts producing excessive bureaucracy?!

The authority of the Government for European Results of Bulgaria enters a “goof on goof” stage. We have witnessed eavesdropping, special intelligence tools, commissions scandals, etc.

We realised, although at a later time, that “lady-birds” with phony diplomas stroll undisturbed on the highest levels of authority. The parliament stamps lobbyist laws, which often benefit friendly circles of the government. The required reforms in various areas still cannot get placed on the agenda.

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I believe that Bulgaria can achieve more, but what else can GERB do?!

The time has come to part with our vision of grannie’s village, where there is plenty of everything. The village today is a place where daily survival fights are fought, alas with a predictable ending. Living there is a hard social destiny, determined by the widening unequality gap between the village and the city. Living there means that you are poor and have no access to basic services - transport, postal, healthcare, education ... The people there can hardly escape the feeling of being second hand. They fight with problems unthinkable for European Union citizens, like: where shall their children study, where to obtain healthcare, or how to protect themselves from the criminal all day long.

By government data annually Euro 3 Mlrd are “invested” into Bulgarian villages by the European Rural Regions Development Program. The funds however somehow go mostly into the hands of large land-holders and enterpreneurs, who prefer to re-invest the EU budget finds into regions and activities in the city or the suburbal areas.

The problem if the villages is not only the poor infrastructure, but the human resources as well. Isolation turns the rural areas into a habitat for outsiders – uneducated or almost so persons, elderly loners and city homeless.

The villages near the large cities have a future, but the remote and depopulating villages are destined to become self-growing forests on yesterday's fertile lands. For 22 years the picturesque villages of yore are turning into wilderness, a source of drama for the living and an extinct species in Bulgaria.

At last year end the Borisov cabinet blowed out public opinions, again. The reason this time were the Bulgarian forests. The draft law changing and supplementing the Forests Act, approved by the government at its last 2011 meeting, in practive unties the hands of businesses and carries the risk of forests becoming unfenced plots.

The changes provide for building ski slopes and lifts on forest territory, without changing the function of the land. Up to now, this possibility existed for shelters, visitor centres, hunting units, forest roads, aerial electrical power-line poles, forestry checkpoints, etc.

Veliko Zlatanov is UA mayor-candidate and UA list leader for Valchitran village, Pordim municipality.

Born on 5 March 1949 in Valchetran v., Pleven region.

Studies in the local gymnasium to 10th grade, but graduates secondary school in the town of Levski. Later finishes technical college and specialises in car-building.

After 1989 takes an active public position, working as agro-producer. With his friends works towards the restoration of the Common Agrarian Professional Union in Bulgaria (CAPU). The organisation is registered on 20 October2000 in the Sofia City Court.

Member of the Union Executive council from its reiception until 23 October 2003, when the General Meeting votes him Chairman of the Executive Council. Believes that the integration of the Bulgarian agricultural producers in the economy of the European Union is not possible without CAPU. Loves the land and the people who cultivate it.

In 2008-2009 publishes the online periodical “Agrarian Protection”. The publication popularises the CAPU positions on the development of small- and medium businesses in agricultural production and processing. The Union develops and implements projects under the Village Regions Development Program with a registered own trading company.

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An Evening of Poetry with the verses of Manol Manolov delighted the poetry-lovers in Burgas. The event took place as a part of the Autumn Literature Festivities in the seaside city.

A poet, journalist, historian and public person, Manol Manolov is also a municipality advisor candidate – second in the UA list.

PAS XXI c.

Unrest against a CEC resolution, which in practice disqualifies Avren mayor-candidate Krasimir Todorov, brought new protests this week. On 13 October there were two parallel protests - at the CEC building in Sofia and on the Avren highway. UA representatives took part in both.

Meanwhile another situation emerged – in Avren again. The local BSP organization has attempted attracting agrarian ballots by misrepresentation. UA has been listed as a a contributor in a flyer of red mayor-candidate Todorka Pavlova. Avren UA co-ordinator Svilen Radev promptly filed a complaint to the Regional Elections Committee.

Provided no response is obtained in the law-prescribed period, a complaint will be filed to CEC.

PAS XXI c.