by: Boryana Dzhambazova | New York Times

SOFIA — The European Commission has vowed to monitor media freedoms closely in Bulgaria, where rival political and business groups have taken control of top news organizations and used them to promote their interests.
 
Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for telecommunications and the commission’s head of media policy and regulation, has said she will ask to meet with the relevant players when she travels to Sofia in September for a conference on broadband Internet.