Bulgaria's December Unemployment Rate Reaches 11%
Bulgaria's unemployment rate in December 2011 was 11.2%, according to Eurostat's latest data.
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Bulgaria's unemployment rate in December 2011 was 11.2%, according to Eurostat's latest data.
UniCredit Bulbank, part of the UniCredit Group, came out as a winner in the annual poll of Euromoney magazine on the best providers of trade finance services on the local markets in countries worldwide.
Belgium's KBC has put up for sale Bulgarian insurance subsidiary DZI and the deal is expected to be concluded by the end of the year, according to local media reports.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has ordered his Deputy and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, to inform the public about end-of-years bonuses at his institution.
A total of 25 out of 27 EU member states, Bulgaria included, have agreed to the new EU / euro zone fiscal pact for stricter budget discipline, a brainchild of Germany.
Bulgaria's diplomatic reshuffle is set to continue on Wednesday, as the country's Foreign Minister is expected to propose the appointment of five new Ambassadors abroad, according to a media report.
Bulgaria and Romania lag behind other EU countries in their development, according to a recent study.
The right-wing Bulgarian Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) party has demanded that the county's Prime Minister and his government retract their signature under the international ACTA agreement.
Reforms at the Interior Ministry will include the introduction of legal amendments stipulating the standard of "absolute necessity for the use of firearms and other police-related tools," according to Deputy Interior Minister Veselin Vuchkov.
The fact that Bulgaria has signed the controversial ACTA agreement will not change anything in the country, Bulgarian Minister of Economy Traicho Traikov believes.
Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, refused Tuesday to offer any comments on how the cabinet had made the decision to sign the controversial ACTA international agreement.
Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, is presenting Tuesday plans for reforms at his institution.
Bulgarian surfers have expressed their outrage over a recent anti-drug campaign video produced by the country's Health Ministry, which they feel portrays them as drug addicts.
The organizers of the Bulgarian "Free Internet" campaign have officially presented a new smartphone application that is supposed to ease the search for free WiFi zones.
Drivers in Bulgaria have to buy by the end of January 31 their toll stickers – the so-called vignettes - for 2012, preferably those valid for the whole year as they are the best deal.
The winter cold snap in Bulgaria has killed another two as temperatures dropped to record lows, schools closed down, roads became impassable and power supplies were cut off.
More than 450 schools across Bulgaria closed their doors on Tuesday morning as the country was hit by a wave of polar cold.
The temperatures in Bulgaria fell to record lows Tuesday morning, even lower than Monday.
Bulgaria's artist Valentin Georgiev came out as a winner at Iran's traditional Tabriz cartoon fest, whose participants this year were provoked by the austerity times the world is going through, local media reported.
Nearly 150 Bulgarian women have rushed to remove potentially faulty silicone breast implants supplied by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) following the example set by the ladies in France.
Bulgaria has endorsed the town of Panagyurishte to run for host of this year's Candidates Tournament chess clashes, it has been revealed.
Rumen Trifonov, Todor Yanchev and Kostadin Stoyanov, the three CSKA Sofia football players who tested positive for banned stimulants, have been banned for just three months, the Bulgarian Olympic Committee has announced.
Stefan Klenovski, who was arrested in a shopping center in Sofia on the evening of January 27, has been placed under house arrest by the Sofia City Court.
Bulgaria's specialized criminal court, which became operational on January 03, has closed its first trial with a plea bargain sealed between four of the defendants and the prosecution.
The new structure of the Bulgarian Supreme Prosecutor's Office of Cassation will feature a special department on combating crimes committed by or against police officers, according to Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev.
Bulgaria marks Tuesday a grim anniversary – 6 years since the gruesome murder of two teenage sisters Rositsa (18) and Kristina (15) Belneyski.
The trial against notorious Bulgarian businessmen Mario Nikolov and Lyudmil Stoykov, who are charged with large-scale SAPARD fraud in the amount of EUR 7.5 M, has once again failed to kick off.
We should really thank the Bulgarians. They have been sacrificing for the good of all of us who live in the post-communist era.
A church was set ablaze in the Macedonian village of Labuniste, presumably as a result of the tensions between the local Slavic and Albanian populations.
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who shocked the world by killing 77 innocent people in a single day, is willing to be interviewed by a foreign TV channel, it has been revealed.
Turkey would no longer lend full support to the Nabucco gas pipeline project and would shift its priority to its own TANAP project, an official from Turkey's Energy Ministry revealed on Tuesday, as cited by local media.
The internet civil group Avaaz began collecting signatures against the preliminary signing of the debatable international agreement ACTA.
Bulgaria's Borisov Cabinet has just come up with a new unpleasant surprise for the Bulgarian public by signing ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), the controversial copyright protection deal, without telling anyone.
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