Problems and Perspectives for Agricultural Economics Education in Bulgaria

The paper presents the changes in education of agricultural economics in Bulgaria in the transition period and makes evaluation of basic problems of education. Agricultural economics education in Bulgaria had eighty years tradition and experience. The paper includes three parts – experience, problems and future. The first part shows three periods of historical development and experience of agricultural economics education till 1990: *1921 – 1949 in Sofia State University; *1949 – 1976 in Higher agricultural institute in Sofia; *1976 – 1990 in Higher economics institute in Sofia. The second part contains analysis and evaluation of main problems in education in several directions: * Programs for education and textbooks; * Qualification of lectures; * Problems with new computers and products: * Transition period in high education from one to three degrees system (bachelor, master, doctor). The last section shows tendencies for improvement of the education with regard to Bulgaria`s integration with European Union.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

The Western Balkans Security Agenda: Short and Midterm Prospects

After the fall of the Berlin wall and the deep economic and political transformations the Balkans seemed to be taking a different turn. While the Central and East European countries were working hard to integrate with the West, the Balkans were gradually falling into an ever deeper crisis which no one seemed to be able to prevent. It is difficult to explain why this had to happen here or was it the fault of the people living here and why all these people had to go through so much suffering, killing each other, losing one’s family and finally, having an international tribunal for some of them

THE LESSONS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROBLEMS OF PRODUCTION COOPERATIVE IN BULGARIAN AGRICULTURE

In the paper are depicted the lessons and the problems of functioning and restructuring of cooperative structures in agricultural sector in Bulgaria during the pre-accession period (1995- 2006). The unsolved institutional and legislative problems of these structures are shown in details. The purpose of the paper is to analyze and assess the status of the cooperative structures active in the agriculture and to offer concrete suggestions for their further adaptation to the EU legislation implemented in this area.agricultural cooperatives, EU accession, CAP implementation, Agribusiness,

Exit Consent Solicitations Post-Assenagon: A Relic of the Past?

This case note considers the Assenagon judgment, which reviewed the position of exit consent solicitations in English law. Exit consent solicitation is a restructuring technique utilised in cases where a company in financial distress seeks to reorganise its debts, more specifically its bonds. In order to avoid the strenuous process of insolvency, such bond issuers put forward an exchange offer, which permits the swap of distressed bonds for newly issued ones. The exchange offer is then coupled with an exit consent, which makes it a condition of the exchange that the bondholders firstly agree to an amendment of the original terms of the defaulting bonds. Such a move allows the issuer to reorganise its financial affairs in order to keep the company afloat. Briggs J did not see the purpose of exit consents positively. He held in Assenagon that such an exchange offer coupled with exit consents was invalid by virtue of the ‘abuse principle’ as the majority, at the invitation of the issuer, took part in ‘coercing’ the minority to swap their bonds. This case note outlines the key elements of Briggs J’s ruling and discusses the future of exit consents post-Assenagon

The Western Balkans Security Agenda: Short and Midterm Prospects

After the fall of the Berlin wall and the deep economic and political transformations the Balkans seemed to be taking a different turn. While the Central and East European countries were working hard to integrate with the West, the Balkans were gradually falling into an ever deeper crisis which no one seemed to be able to prevent. It is difficult to explain why this had to happen here or was it the fault of the people living here and why all these people had to go through so much suffering, killing each other, losing one’s family and finally, having an international tribunal for some of them

MULTIFUNCTIONAL AGRICULTURE IN BULGARIA - OPPORTUNITIES AND PROSPECTS

The purpose of the paper is to analyze and to assess the status of the multifunctional agriculture in Bulgaria and on the basis of the attitudes of the agricultural producers to develop such activity to suggest trends for strengthening their adaptation to CAP conditions. The paper presents the main results from a scientific research of a team from the University of National and World Economy, Department “Economy of Natural Resources”, Agribusiness Section - Sofia, Bulgaria (2006-2007).multifunctional agriculture, multifunctional agricultural holding, Agribusiness, Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Development of Agrarian Structures in Bulgaria: From Productive Cooperatives to Sole Traders and Partnerships

The aim of the paper is to analyze the reasons for the still continuing organizational restructuring and for the transition of Bulgarian agriculture from collective cooperative forms to prevailing sole proprietors and small size collective partnerships based on stake principle. The conclusions and assessments in the paper are based on the data from 2003 Census of agricultural holdings and on results from two research regional projects: "The Land-leasing model of agriculture in Dobrich region" and "Integrated development of rural regions in Haskovo area".agricultural productive cooperatives, partnerships, sole proprietors, Agribusiness,

Social media through the requirements lens:a case study of Google Maps

Social media serves as an extensive repository of user interaction related to software applications. Users discuss application features and express their sentiments about them in both qualitative (usually in natural language) and quantitative ways (for example, via votes). Further, many social media applications support explicit social networks of users and measures such as user reputation. Naturally, content on social media has the potential to inform requirements engineering. However, models of requirements and associated tools that enable software engineers to make sense of this information are currently lacking. In this paper, we present a preliminary study of interaction among users about Google Maps on the forum Reddit. We highlight important artifacts relevant to requirements in these interactions. We discuss goal modeling as an archetypal requirements modeling approach and use that as a basis for enhancing requirements modeling with notions that capture user interaction