Bulgarian Transport Firms Seek Lower Fuel Excise Duty
Transport companies have called on the Bulgarian government to ask the European Commission about a reduction in the excise duty levied on fuel used in public transport.
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Transport companies have called on the Bulgarian government to ask the European Commission about a reduction in the excise duty levied on fuel used in public transport.
Bulgaria's first major highway, "Trakiya", linking Sofia to the Black Sea coast at Burgas is to be completed ahead of schedule, Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova announced.
Bulgarian wines will be promoted in Russia and China with the help of a program co-financed by the European Union, the Bulgarian Agriculture Fund has announced.
Bulgaria's construction sector registered a 10% decrease year on year in February 2010, according tot the country's National Statistical.
Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, is on a visit to the southern city of Kardzhali Friday in an attempt to deal with escalating protest rallies.
Left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will resume the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project if it enters the next government, the party's leader Sergey Stanishev has stated.
Commenting on measures to tackle climbing fuel prices, Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev said in Parliament that the removal of the bio component from diesel would lead to a BGN 0.5 price cut
Three investors are bidding to buy Bulgaria's major Lead and Zinc Complex (OTZK), Bulgarian Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has announced.
Bulgaria's seasonally adjusted industrial production index decreased by 2.1% in February 2012 as compared to the previous month, according to preliminary data released by the country's National Statistical Institute.
Romania expects to reach an agreement with Bulgaria in their dispute over 17 square km of their economic zones in the Black Sea, Romanian Foreign Minister Crisian Diaconescu has announced.
The Members of the Bulgarian Parliament ratified Friday the agreement between the Defense Ministries of Bulgaria and Israel for partnership in military trainings.
The Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency (BSMEPA) may be closed after its functions related to the Competitiveness Operational Progam get transferred to a Directorate of the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism.
Kalina Ilieva, the notorious former head of Bulgaria's Agriculture Fund, has been officially charged with forging her university diploma.
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has voiced his indignation at the fact that bread prices remain high despite the annual subsidy of BGN 1 B paid to grain producers.
The parliamentary group of Bulgarian far-right party Ataka may collapse, as three more dissenters are reportedly set to leave it.
Bulgaria's left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and far-right Ataka submitted a no-confidence motion in the country's Parliament on Friday.
Singer Sofi Marinova, who will perform this year's Bulgarian entry in the Eurovision song contest, may become an MP with the ruling centrist-right GERB party, a GERB representative has hinted.
The performance of Bulgaria's 2012 Eurovision song in the country's Parliament triggered a scandal on Friday, as a far-right leader was outraged by its oriental characteristics.
An improvised dog show will take place in the Black Sea city Burgas aimed at finding new homes for stray pets.
Internet has become an integral part of life of young people in Bulgaria with signs of growing internet addiction, according to a recent poll.
Almost all children accommodated in orphanages in Bulgaria have parents, according to data of the National Statistics Institute, NSI, released Friday.
Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, is dealing in person with the stray dog issue in Bulgaria and new measures will be implemented as early as Monday.
The family of Bulgaria's notorious Roma boss Kiril Rashkov AKA Tsar Kiro has been moving in the last several days to a 6-story hotel building in downtown Plovdiv.
The debt of Bulgarian hospitals for years back has totaled BGN 378 M, according to the country's new Health Minister, Desislava Atanasova.
Scandalous ex NBA player Dennis Rodman has been a no show at a scheduled meeting with the chair of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee Chair and former high jump Stefka Kostadinova.
Five Bulgarian nationals, three men and two women, have been apprehended by Thai police for using counterfeit credit cards to withdraw money from local ATM devices.
The prosecutor's office in Bulgaria's mountain town of Razlog has launched an investigation and pre-trial proceedings in the case of the fatal house collapse in the southwestern village of Yakoruda.
The Sofia Police Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime related to historical valuables and their colleagues from the same unit in the Region of Sofia have busted yet another illegal treasure hunting group.
The Appellate Court in Bitola, Macedonia, upheld the verdicts of Sotir Filevski and Branco Baic in the case of the sunken tout boat Ilinden, which killed 15 Bulgarians over 2 years ago.
US prosecutors can use the confession of Russian Natalia Wilson, who is charged with killing Bulgarian Slavka Naydenova, and her 8-year-old son in Prince William County, Virginia.
At least five people reportedly have been taken to a hospital with injuries, including one of two crew members, after a US Navy fighter jet crashed into in a building in Virginia Beach, VA.
No fatalities have been reported on the ground after Friday's crash of a US Navy fighter jet into a residential building in Virginia Beach, VA.
A US Navy jet with two aviators aboard crashed Friday just after 11 a.m. into an apartment building in Virginia Beach, VA.
Six persons have been injured Friday in an explosion at the Petrobrazi refinery in Prahova county, Southern Romania.
The African Union Commission Jean Ping rejected on Friday a declaration of independence by Tuareg rebels in the north of Mali.
A law enforcement officer and a militant have been killed in an armed clash during an operation against a Wahhabi Islamist group in the northwestern Azerbaijani city of Ganja.
Two Russian men have been arrested for illegally engaging in 'pro-gay propaganda,' in the first-ever enforcement of a controversial new law that bans making statements supporting homosexuality in public.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya's former dictator, has only been charged with trivial matters such as failure to licence his camels, human rights campaigners have claimed.
Tuareg rebels of Mali's National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) have declared "the independence of Azawad", a region in the north of the country, according to a statement posted on the group's website.
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