In the fourth quarter of 2011 in comparison with the third quarter of 2011 the average monthly wages and salaries in Bulgaria increased by 4.9% to BGN 727.
Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev supports regulation of small credit lines, but has reservations about administrative regulation of bank interest rates.
Bulgaria's state-owned gas supplier Bulgargaz has demanded that natural gas prices in the country go up by almost 27% as of April 1, 2012.
Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov and the Ministry assure that there would be no power outages and planned blackouts in the country over the shortage of electric power.
Bulgaria's Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism Traicho Traikov is going to participate in the opening of the European Ski Cup contest in the southern mountain resort of Pamporovo, the Economy Ministry announced.
The best racers from 17 countries are set to take part in the European Cup in Bulgaria's top winter resort Pamporovo on February 12-13, 2012.
The Bulgarian government has decided to prepare a new procedure for granting the entire Plovdiv Airport under concession.
The US Embassy in Sofia has issued a special press release to the media in announcing the 2012 student essay and art contest dedicated to Presidents' Day.
The Bulgarian army's 12 Cougar rescue helicopters are fit to be used in all seasons, the country's Defense Minister Anyu Angelov has clarified, thus refuting Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's opinion.
The European Union has asked New Delhi to use its influence to draw Iran back into talks over its disputed nuclear ambitions, Indian TV channels said on Friday.
Bulgaria will seek permission from the European Commission to get priority treatment for projects seeking funding under the Rural Development Program on the territory of the flood-hit southern towns of Harmanli and Svilengrad.
Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov has vowed that Bulgaria will comply with EU hen welfare standards by April 2012.
The European People's Party should be pressured to stop the controversial ACTA agreement, according to Sergey Stanishev, interim President of the Party of European Socialists.
The Southern Bulgarian Plovdiv municipality plans to build a second rowing canal and a new zoo with funding from JESSICA, a joint EU initiative for financing sustainable urban development.
Iliana Ivanova, a Bulgarian MEP from the European People's Party, has approached the European Commission regarding a xenophobic website created by the Dutch populist Freedom Party.
The Bulgarian cabinet is firm on keeping the course of working together and discussing with the Parliament key issues for the EU.
The Dutch government should distance itself from a website created by the anti-immigration Freedom Party that records complaints about Central and Eastern Europeans, employers' organization head Bernard Wientjes has declared.
Bulgaria has received a donation from Hungary to help with the effort to eliminate the damage from the deadly floods in the southern parts of the country.
Bulgaria has reacted strongly to the new initiative of the Dutch Freedom Party of Geert Wilders which presented a special site where the Dutch can submit complaints about Eastern Europeans.
Over sixty Members of the Parliament have collected the necessary signatures to request the establishment of a temporary inquiry committee to probe Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov's alleged pressure on the judiciary.
The intention of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, to donate BGN 1 M from its State subsidy to the residents of the flooded southeastern village of Biser violates the law.
The dispute surrounding the ownership of the Ivanovo dam that failed four days ago, causing massive flooding and serious material damage and killing 8 people, continues unabated, against the backdrop of cleanup operations in the southern Bulgarian regions
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has once again expressed his frustration with the former government's so-called "Water Mirror" infrastructure project.
People from 17 Bulgarian cities and towns are going to rally against the notorious ACTA, the anti-online piracy deal, on Saturday, February 11, 2012, joining thousands in a global protest coordinated by Stopp ACTA.
Friday marks the day of St. Haralambos, the holyday traditionally associated with honey and beehives for the Bulgarian Orthodox Christians.
Seventeen Bulgarian regions remain under code orange over extremely low temperatures, the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) has announced.
Two mild earthquakes were felt in the first hour of Friday morning in the area of the towns of Elhovo and Topolovgrad in southeastern Bulgaria.
Prominent Turkish club Galatasaray is said to plan one more attempt to snap up Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov.
Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov will return to his home country's national side in its upcoming friendly game against Hungary on February 29, it has been reported.
Germany will not sign an international anti-piracy treaty, despite having already agreed to it in principal, government sources in Berlin said Friday, as cited by the German press agency DPA.
On Monday, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov vowed that Bulgaria would comply with EU minimum standards for keeping egg laying hens by April 2012.
The attentive newspaper reader has surely not missed the recent turmoil around Hungary's economic fortunes.
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