Bulgarian Cabinet Slashes State Servants Paid Leave
All State servants will now have up to 25 days of paid annual leave, according to a decision of the cabinet of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB.
All State servants will now have up to 25 days of paid annual leave, according to a decision of the cabinet of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB.
Bulgaria will offer German bank KfW three options for paying back the debt of state-owned railway company BDZ for the Siemens Desiro electric trains.
Telekom Austria and Turkey's biggest mobile phone company Turkcell are interested in the sale of Bulgaria's Vivacom, heir to the state-owned Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), foreign media reports say.
EBRD chief economist Erik Berglof has started to drum support for a new Vienna Initiative in a bid to stop an outflow of capital from emerging Europe.
The credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's has downgraded the EU bailout fund to AA+ from AAA in what has been described as another ax swing at Europe.
The ban on the use of hydrofracking technology in the extraction and exploration of gas and oil in Bulgaria will be permanent.
The cabinet of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, withdrew Tuesday its decision granting rights to sign a contract with the US company "Chevron.
The effective strike of miners at Bulgaria's state-owned coal mining company Maritsa Iztok Mines is entering its third day on Tuesday, with protesters demanding a cash bonus.
Bulgaria's capital Sofia has registered the highest decrease in the rent prices for prime office spaces among 53 European cities, a CB Richard Ellis report shows.
Bulgaria is keeping its standing among the top ten most preferred real estate markets for overseas buyers, according to a new infographic released by TheMoveChannel.com.
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov will arrive in Greece for a brief visit on Wednesday, the country's Foreign Ministry has announced.
The American Jewish Committee (AJC), a US-based advocacy organization, has welcomed in a statement the signing two new agreements between Bulgaria and Israel, expanding their defense and security cooperation.
Bulgaria's long-term goal should be its accession to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and even the G20 club of rich countries, according to former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy.
Newly elected European Parliament Martin Schulz has contributed greatly to Bulgaria's accession to the EU, according to Bulgarian Sergey Stanishev, interim leader of the Party of European Socialists.
The head of the European People's Party Group in the European Parliament, Joseph Daul, has congratulated Socialist Martin Schulz on his election as President of the EP.
Bulgaria's annual inflation rate in December 2011 was 2%, the third lowest in the bloc after Sweden (0.4%) and Malta (1.3%), according to Eurostat's latest data.
Bulgaria's outgoing President Georgi Parvanov has stated he would dedicate his future political career to "consolidating different political parties".
Eleven out of a total of fifteen Bulgarian Metropolitan bishops have been exposed as former agents of the country's former Communist State Security.
The driver of a Sofia trolley jumped to his death Tuesday morning from the "Chavdar" bridge in the capital.
The Bulgarian Orthodox Churchy honors Tuesday the memory of the Venerable Anthony the Great, on the holiday called Antonovden.
Manchester United's Dimitar Berbatov and Chelsea's Fernando Torres were among the players offered by agents to French giants PSG, their new coach Carlo Ancelotti has stated.
Bulgaria's ruling centrist-right GERB will try once again to pass a bill on the confiscation of unexplained wealth, the country's Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva has announced.
The kidnapping and murder of a Bulgarian teen girl in the western city of Pernik, near Sofia, involves some very controversial theories, confusing explanations, and mindboggling facts, according to the Chairman of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, BHC, NG
The Regional Prosecutor in the Bulgarian western city of Pernik, near the capital Sofia, Plamen Naydenov, rejected reports that he had been present during the search of the apartment of a suspect, who committed suicide in the presence of police.
The suspect arrested for the murder of a teen girl in the western city of Pernik, near Bulgaria's capital Sofia, who committed suicide as police searched his home, had been beaten by the latter, and his fingers broken.
An excerpt from an order, issued by Bulgaria's Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Simeon Djankov.
Bulgaria's newly elected President Rosen Plevneliev takes over, inspecting a military parade in his capacity as the Commander-in-Chief.
Austrian MEP Hannes Swoboda was elected leader of the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament after the group's former leader Martin Schulz took over as EP President.
Iranian authorities are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls in the country, as the morality police fear they may erode Islamic values.
German social democrat Martin Schultz has been elected President of the European Parliament, following a vote in Strasbourg on January 17.
Jimmy Wales, cofounder of free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has decided to shut down the website for 24 hours Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
The dead body of a Bulgaria teen, Miroslava Nikolova, 17, was found by the police in the suburbs of the western city of Pernik last Thursday after two months of active search, which involved the information systems of Schengen and Interpol.
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