Bulgaria to Have 1 600 km of Highways by 2020 - Govt
Bulgaria will boast some 1 600 km of highways and "high-speed roads", Bulgarian Minister of Regional Development Lilyana Pavlova promised.
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Bulgaria will boast some 1 600 km of highways and "high-speed roads", Bulgarian Minister of Regional Development Lilyana Pavlova promised.
Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev has painted a rather dreamy picture of the Bulgarian infrastructure in 2020 while speaking at 7th annual "Strategic Infrastructure Bulgaria" conference in Sofia.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) create 90% of the employment in Bulgaria, according to Svetla Kostadinova, CEO of the Institute for Market Economy (IME).
Bulgarian glassmaker Rubin has acquired a 63.6% stake in Srpska Fabrika Stakla, owned by Serbian state-owned gas monopoly Srbijagas. The price of the deal is EUR 35 M.
Bulgaria's former President Georgi Parvanov (2002-2012) has expressed his deep disappointment with the fact that his country abandoned the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project.
Russia is set to insist that the Bulgarian state honor the contract for the construction of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant, according to the Russian energy minister, even though Bulgaria's Borisov Cabinet killed the project.
Bulgaria has sent a note to Russia asking it to launch negotiations on the cancellation of the two countries' Belene nuclear power plant project that was to be built in Bulgaria, according to a report.
Bulgaria's Parliament has adopted a decision to terminate the construction of the 2000 MW Belene nuclear power plant, a project conceived back in the 1980s.
Bulgaria faces penalties amounting to way over USD 58 M over the cancellation of the Belene NPP project, Russian media warn.
Romania has granted US energy giant Chevron permission to to explore and exploit shale gas in three coastal perimeters - Vama Veche, Adamclisi and Costinesti.
More than half of the people in Bulgaria support the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant, which has just been abandoned by the Borisov Cabinet, a poll shows.
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has attributed the collapse of the Belene NPP project to the previous three-way coalition government.
The decision to scrap plans to build Belene nuclear power plant is a catastrophic mistake, taken under US pressure, and dooms Bulgaria's only technology sector to slow death, a socialist has fumed.
Bulgaria's decision to abandon plans to build Belene nuclear power plant is the best one, the former energy and economy minister has said, adding also a word of caution.
Bulgaria's economy and energy minister will travel to Moscow on Thursday, a day after the government decided to abandon plans to build Belene nuclear power plant on the Danube River.
Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev will visit Italy on March 30 on the invitation of his Italian counterpart Giorgio Napolitano.
The European Parliament has urged the five EU Member States that have yet to recognize Kosovo's independence to do so.
The European Parliament has praised Serbia and Montenegro for their progress towards EU accession during Thursday's plenary session on EU enlargement.
EU-Turkey relations need fresh impetus, but will get it only if Turkey makes more progress on reform, said the Members of the European Parliament in a resolution, voted on Thursday.
Bulgarian ex Tsar and ex Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg is on a visit to Brussels on high-profile meetings for "Bulgaria's good", in his own words.
The European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Laszlo Andor, will pay a visit to Bulgaria on Thursday.
The Supreme Administrative Court (VAS) has confirmed the abuse of dominant position by the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), according to a Thursday statement of the Commission on Protection of Competition (KZK).
Some 300 illegal base stations of mobile operators in Sofia will be phased out.
Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, has once again promised that measures will be taken to deal with the city's grave stray dogs problem.
The fees charged by private enforcement agents (PEAs) will be capped, most probably at 10% of the amount of the debt, according to legal amendments passed at first reading in Parliament on Wednesday.
Hungarian President Pal Schmitt is under an increasing pressure to resign, even though he was formally cleared of plagiarizing his 1992 doctoral dissertation.
The largest Bulgarian English-language media Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) is pleased to announce to its readers from around the world the launch of its Flash News service.
The Communist State Security file of Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim was hidden or destroyed, when the regime decided that he will become Patriarch or when he became such, according to Father Lyubomir Popov.
Bulgarian ruling GERB party MP Plamen Tsekov has been expectedly selected by the parliament to become the next head of Bulgaria's National Health Insurance Fund.
The participation of Bulgaria's best tennis player Grigor Dimitrov at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami has come to an end after a defeat by Janko Tipsarevic.
Bulgaria's ex Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev has been acquitted of charges for inflicting damages for the Health Ministry.
Grigor Dimitrov always expected to hit the headlines one day, but what he never expected was that the majority of interest would surround not his career, but his private life.
A total of EUR 1.1 B of assets belonging to family members of Libya's late strongman Muammar Gaddafi have been seized by Italy's tax police.
The BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, China, India, and South Africa – have declared their wish for a greater role in global affairs, including the global financial system, at a summit in New Delhi.
Spanish unions are holding a general strike on Thursday to protest against new legislation which makes it easier and cheaper for companies to fire employees.
The father of Toulouse gunman is perfectly within his rights to sue France, but such an act would be the height of indecency, French politicians have said.
The father of Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah has hired an Algerian lawyer to sue French special police over his son's death, French media report.
Bulgaria's Presidents have enjoyed high approval ratings most of the time, mainly due to the fact that heads of state in the country have largely, though not entirely, representative and ceremonial functions.
Father Lyubomir Popov is an Orthodox priest in Bulgaria's Black Sea City of Varna.
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