Bulgaria's Devt Minister Vows Focus on Northern Highway Project
The construction of the Hemus Highway – the one major highway project in Northern Bulgaria – is set to get a boost, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.
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The construction of the Hemus Highway – the one major highway project in Northern Bulgaria – is set to get a boost, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.
The newest daily newspaper "Presa" ("Press") has had its first issue come out on Tuesday, January 3, 2012.
The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has produced a record-breaking total of 16 314 271 МWh of electricity in 2011.
The fate of the project for a second Bulgarian nuclear power plant in the Danube town of Belene remains largely unclear, according to the latest statement of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on the issue.
The Pernik District Court has sentenced the Otkrit Vagledobiv Mines EAD, the biggest coal mining company in the region controlled by energy tycoon Hristo Kovachki, to pay close to half a million leva in outstanding concession fees.
Three Ambassadors exposed as collaborators or agents of the communist-era State Security (DS) have won the cases against Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov over their pre-term recall to Bulgaria.
Bulgaria's outgoing President Georgi Parvanov has offered condolences to his Macedonian counterpart George Ivanov for the loss of the country's first President Kiro Gligorov who passed away on Monday.
Macedonia's late President Kiro Gligorov, who was buried in Skopje Tuesday, had a document issued by the Bulgarian authorities in 1942 that he was of Bulgarian origin.
The European Commission will announce by Friday which EU member states want to preserve the labor market restrictions for Bulgarian and Romanian workers, the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency has informed.
Being a member of the EU but not of the Schengen area, Bulgaria is just a transit county for illegal immigrants, according to a French daily.
Denmark, which took over the EU presidency on Sunday, will have little power to deal with the ongoing crisis in the bloc, according to a Danish news agency/
Bulgarians remain the greatest fans of the EU five years after their country joined the Union, according to Lyubov Panayotova, head of the Sofia-based NGO "European Institute".
Instead of redressing Bulgaria's regional economic imbalances, EU funds are actually deepening them, a report claims.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has lamented his personal life as a "big failure" because of his ambitions.
Bulgaria's government is supposed to save BGN 3 B over the course of 2012 in order to pay off old debts, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has declared.
January 3, 2012, is the first working day of Bulgaria's brand-new "anti-mafia" court and the respective prosecutor's office.
Drivers in Bulgaria have to buy by the end of January their toll stickers – the so-called vignettes - for 2012, preferably those valid for the whole year as they are the best deal.
Nedim Gendzhev, the former Chief Mufti of Bulgaria's Muslim community, was sentenced for libel by the District Court in the Bulgarian city of Kardzhali on Tuesday.
The word Bulgarian has been used in the Italian language with a very derogatory connotation and has recently entered the media slang in the country, according to a Bulgarian TV channel.
Entire Roma quarters from the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv are moving to Germany, France, or Switzerland, according to a report.
Four Bulgarian locations registered record high temperatures for the beginning of January around 2 pm on Tuesday.
Bulgaria's executive environmental agency raised an alert on Tuesday over the high concentration of dust particles in the air in fourteen towns and cities across the country since the beginning of the year.
Tsvetana Pironkova and Grigor Dimitrov, the most successful current Bulgarian tennis players, caught the attention of TV giant CNN which has included them in a feature.
Hristo Stoichkov, who is expected to be officially presented as coach of Bulgarian champions Litex Lovech within days, has been lured by a bonus for one million euros, according to reports.
Dimitar Dimitrov, former coach of Bulgaria's football national team, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer in October, has challenged Balkan mentality with a series of open and candid interviews about the fight he faces.
Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov has been included in the poll for Manchester United's Player of the Month award for December 2011.
Bulgaria's parliamentary commission on corruption has brought back on the agenda the graft allegations against Ahmed Dogan, leader of the opposition ethnic Turkish party, a year after he was fully acquitted.
VAT fraud drains an average BGN 700 M from the state budget per year through schemes involving around 30 000 companies out of a total of 250 000 VAT-registered firms.
Bulgaria on Tuesday inaugurated a special tribunal that should enhance its so far faltering attempts to fight organized crime and corruption.
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Two Bulgarian pop folk singers got engaged in a hot dispute and were on the verge of getting in a fight.
"When I am in Germany I work so hard that I have no time to feel nostalgic.
"Such a large and expensive project cannot be signed on your knee in a piano bar, it needs to be fine-tuned all over.
Iran warned the United States Tuesday not to return a US aircraft carrier "to the Persian Gulf region", CNN reported.
A new law has been introduced in Belarus that will impose restrictions on citizens and residents in the country visiting or using foreign websites starting Friday, January 6.
The majority of Russians expect greater political unrest in the country in 2012 but no "coup" of the Putin regime, according to a poll of the Levada Center.
A violent clash has erupted between two former rebel groups in the Libyan capital Tripoli, witnesses have reported.
Mitt Romney has predicted he will win the Republican party caucuses for the US presidential nominations against the other bidders.
Turkey has pledged to pay financial compensation to families of Kurds accidentally killed last week in an air raid on a Kurdish-populated area near its border with Iraq.
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is mourning Tuesday the death of Kiro Gligorov, its first president.
Tens of thousands of Hungarians demonstrated against the country's new constitution late Monday night in front of the Budapest Opera.
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