Bulgarian
Prime Minister Boiko Borisov announced the resignation of his government on
Wednesday. Bulgarian right-wing leader Martin Dimitrov has called for snap
elections in the aftermath of the Cabinet's shocking resignation on Wednesday.
The series of mass protests in Sofia and all other major Bulgarian cities was
initially triggered by the shockingly high electricity bills in EU's poorest
member state. However, many protesters have also demanded the resignation of
the center-right GERB government.
Photo taken from: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boiko-Borisov/29880861985
A new Facebook page
was created today named Protest in support
of Boyko Borisov( in Bulgarian -Протест В Подкрепа На Бойко
Борисов) which gathered more than 1700 Bulgarians
in less than an hour.
Supporters
of this page are against Borisov resignation, so here are some of the comments:
Boyko Borisov's party GERB (which won the
parliamentary election on 5 July 2009 by collecting 39.71% of the popular vote)
called Bulgarian citizens from Borisov’s Facebook page on protest at 12.00 GMT.
The President of the S&D group at the European Parliament Hannes Swoboda commented:
More comments on Twitter:
Participants in the Twitter discussion remind on Wikileaks cable on Borisov, a document from US Embassy in Sofia from May 2006, including his bio titled "from Fireman to "Batman". More to find on this link:
Pope Benedict XVI will resign Feb 28, the Vatican
has confirmed.
It is the first
time a pope resigned in nearly 600 years.
Speaking in Latin to a small gathering of cardinals at the Vatican
on Monday morning, Benedict said that after examining his conscience
“before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an
advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise” of leading
the world’s one billion Roman Catholics
Giovanna Chirri, who covers the Vatican for
Italy’s ANSA news agency and is the editor of a lay people’s newspaper,
was the first reporter who broke the story about Pope's resignation
yesterday.
«Giovanna Chirri è la giornalista dell'Ansa che ha dato per
prima al mondo la notizia delle dimissioni del Papa. Ha capito le sue parole in
latino.» Read more in the following article by Il Messaggero:
Here are some of the comments by Giovanna Chirri on her twitter page:
«Less than 2 months after tweeting for the first
time on his official Twitter account, Pope Benedict XVI announced he is signing
off from the papacy.» Read more in the following article by Huffington Post:
During
his first foreign trip after becoming a Pope, Pope Benedict XVI visited for the
first and and only time Croatia in June 2011 where he was greeted by thousands
of the Catholic believers from Croatia and all around the region. That was the
only visit of the Pope Benedict XVI to the South East European region during
his reign. In the following clip from youtube you can see part of the atmosphere among the gathered believers at the Zagreb Hipodrom:
youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fikM9M4SFYM On the
facebook page opened on the occassion of the Pope's visit to Croatia numerous
comments appeared yesterday after he announced his resignation. Link below: https://www.facebook.com/Papa.Benedikt.XV.Iu.Hrvatskoj
Many Croatian media opened their social media site to comment on the decision of Pope Benedict XVI to resign. Link below:
The latest scandal with the Croatian milk brands
produced by Dukat and Vindija broke out on February 9 when Bosnia and
Herzegovina banned the import of milk produced by the Croatian companies Dukat
and Vindija, claiming that certain imported packages contained levels of
carcinogenic aflatoxins above the acceptable levels. In the meantime,
Montenegrin authorities also ordered the withdrawal of the disputed milk
packages from shelves in shops in Montenegro. Reacting on the introduced milk
import ban from Croatia Croatia's Agriculture
Ministry said on February 9 that there was no reason to panic over minimally
increased levels of aflatoxins in some milk packages of the Dukat and the
Vindija dairy companies, as the established concentrations of these naturally
occurring mycotoxins had no impact on human health. According to the Croatian
officials the contaminated milk was not imported to Croatia from abroad but
came from the Croatian farms saying that the source of contagion is most likely
infected Croatian corn used for producing stock feed.
Source: www.novilist.hr
Different news texts on this latest affair involving Dukat and Vindija milk have appeared in the last 2 days on various Croatian web portals.
«Ministarstvo poljoprivrede kao nacionalna kontakt točka za
sustav brzog uzbunjivanja za hranu i hranu za životinje (HR RASFF) obavještava
potrošače o povlačenju i opozivu pojedinih šarži mlijeka sa tržišza,
proizvođača Vindije i Dukata, u svrhu prevencije i zaštite potrošača zbog
sumnje na povećanu koncentraciju Aflatoksina M1, na koju su upozoreni sa
tržišta BiH.» Read more in the
following text:
«Najveći prodajni lanac u
Crnoj Gori – Voli naložio je povlačenje iz svojih objekata mlijeko hrvatskog
proizvodjača “Dukat”, nakon što je hrvatsko ministarstvo poljoprivrede
priopćilo da će s tržišta biti povučena pojedina pakovanja trajnog mlijeka
“Dukat” i “Vindija” zbog sumnje na povećanu koncentraciju kancerogenog sastojka
Aflatoksina M1.» Read more in the following text:
«U
povodu povlačenja pojedinih vrsta trajnog mlijeka s tržišta zbog prisutnosti
štetnih sastojaka, pomoćnica hrvatskog ministara poljoprivrede Mirjana Mataušić
Pišl izjavila je kako je sporno mlijeko s domaćih farmi, a ne iz uvoza, kako su
to sugerirali Nedjeljko Babić, dopredsjednik HSUPM-a, i Mato Mlinarić iz
Nezavisnih hrvatskih seljaka.» read more in the following text published on the
Hrvatska Rijec website:
«Još malo
pa će biti vijest kada se u pakiranjima mlijeka za široku potrošnju nađu
tragovi prirodnoga mlijeka, a potpuni šok kad tragovi tog mlijeka budu
proizvedeni u Hrvatskoj.» Read more in the following column text:
You can read more comments on the latest affair with the Dukat and Vindija milk in the following tweets:
HORSE MEAT AFFAIR
Great Britain
first discovered the presence of horse meat in what were supposed to be beef
burgers in late January, but subsequent investigations later found the tainted
products in Ireland and now other EU countries, including France and Sweden.
Benoit Hamon, French junior minister for consumer goods, in a statement given February
10th said that French company Poujol had bought the meats from a Cypriot
supplier who in turn had sourced the meat from a Dutch company which had been
supplied by two Romanian abattoirs. On the other hand Sorin Minea, head of
Romania's food federation, said that French importers must have known that they
were not buying beef, but Romanian President Traian Basescu warned that Romania
would face loss of credibility and export restrictions "for many
years" if the allegations prove to be true.
Romanian Agriculture Minister
Daniel Constantin said on February 10 that the government had tasked sanitary
authorities with reporting on whether Romanian slaughterhouses had supplied
horse meat for export instead of beef. "We will punish any violations if
the reports are confirmed,” the minister said. Read more in the following text
published on balkaninsight webpage:
«Auchan, Casino, Carrefour,
Cora, Monoprix et Picard ont retiré des produits Findus et Comigel de la vente,
après la découverte en Europe de viande de cheval dans des plats au boeuf, a
annoncé dimanche la Fédération du commerce et de la distribution (FCD). Le
groupe suéois Findus annonce une plainte contre X.» Read more in the following
text published on the franceinter web page:
«Within the last two week in the UK we have been
horrified to find out that many of our frozen beef products, definitely aren't
what it states on the label. It all started when it was reported that several
of our leading brands found horse DNA in the beefburgers they were selling.»
Read more in the following blog text:
«On the
Sunday Politics show, when Andrew Neil asked if it was his intention to place
a moratorium on meat imports until tests are complete and results
prove our food is safe, Owen Paterson mumbledhe couldn't do that because the EU
regulations forbid it.» Read more in the following
blog text:
«There are huge profits
being made at present by international food processors, targeting cheap and
nutritionally questionable food at sections of our society that can least
afford them. The margins between the farmer and end consumer are outrageous. «Read more
in the following blog text:
«Officials
say there is no evidence so far of a food safety risk and that it is very
unlikely that these products will make anyone sick. But there are concernsthat "bute," a painkilling
drug sometimes given to horses, might creep into the human food chain.» Read more
in the following blog text:
You can read more comments on the latest affair with the horse meat found in beefburgers in the following tweets:
Burger
King has acknowledged this week that some of its burgers in Britain and Ireland
included horsemeat, the latest development in an ongoing scandal. Read more in
the following blog text and in the following clip from the youtube:
Bulgarian
Prime Minister Boiko Borisov announced the resignation of his government on
Wednesday. Bulgarian right-wing leader Martin Dimitrov has called for snap
elections in the aftermath of the Cabinet's shocking resignation on Wednesday.
The series of mass protests in Sofia and all other major Bulgarian cities was
initially triggered by the shockingly high electricity bills in EU's poorest
member state. However, many protesters have also demanded the resignation of
the center-right GERB government.
