The freight train station at the Bulgarian Danube city of Ruse has received its first ever container block train, also known as a unit train, which will be transporting goods from Austria to Turkey.
In the period January - February 2012, Bulgarian exports to third countries decreased by 2.6% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year and amounted to BGN 2.3 B.
The State cannot force bankrupt company owners to do what it is deemed right, otherwise it would turn into a police State, according to Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov.
The Greek Alpha Bank has refuted the reports that it plans to sell 30% in its Eastern European units to European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Bulgarian analysts and institutions have cut their growth forecast for 2012 to just below 1.5% instead of the previously forecast 2-3%, citing slumping exports and stagnant domestic demand.
Bulgaria's government, which plans to issue eurobonds worth up to EUR 1 B in the second quarter, may be forced to struggle with volatile markets if it misses out on the current benign conditions, analysts have warned.
Bulgaria is to start building a natural gas supply pipeline to the northeastern city of Silistra in the fall of 2012, Kiril Temelkov, CEO of state company Bulgartransgaz, announced Monday.
Exploration, research and surveys in Bulgaria have shown that the country has sufficient reserves and deposits of what it needs to solve the issue with skyrocketing gasoline prices, and it is not shale gas.
The tourist tax that was introduced in Bulgaria in April 2011 is unconstitutional, the Bulgarian Constitutional Court has ruled.
A successful tourist season could bring revenues of over BGN 3 B for Bulgaria against a 5-6% increase in number of tourists, according to Ivo Marinov, Deputy Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism.
Bulgarian resorts will welcome guests mostly from Romania and Serbia during the forthcoming Easter holidays, according to statistics of hotel owners.
Jonathan Allen, the new Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bulgaria, has had a "flying start" since he assumed his post in February 2012, according to the British Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce (BBCC).
Daniel Mitov, Petar Nikolov, Proshko Proshkov and Hristo Angelichin are officially withdrawing from the right-wing Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) party.
Vice President Margarita Popova has not granted a single pardon since the beginning of her term in office.
Bulgaria cannot solve the problem with increasing petty and household crime in villages without increasing the number of police officers, and there is no funding for such move.
Daniel Mitov has resigned as a member of the national governing body of Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB), according to a statement of the right-wing formation.
Mariya Boyadzhiyska, a Deputy Mayor of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, has resigned over the failure of the Sofia Municipality to cope with the growing stray dog problem.
By the year 2020, Roma will have a 23% share of Bulgaria's labor market, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
Bulgarians living abroad are 2 036 092, according to official information of Bulgarian diplomatic representations across the globe.
The water in the downtown fountain in the Southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv has been painted in blue.
Bulgaria's western city of Pernik is going to name a street after one of its most prominent sons, Professor, Botio Tachkov, who died Sunday, after being brutally attacked by a large pack of stray dogs in Sofia at the end of March.
In 2011, the content crisis in the Bulgarian media, which started with the financial crisis in 2008–2009, reached new depths and is already affecting Bulgarian citizens' access to quality media coverage of political, social, and economic developments in t
Over fifty animal right NGOs have signed a petition demanding the resignation of Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, over long-lasting inactivity and failure to resolve the stray dogs' problem by applying the law.
Professor Botio Tachkov, a renowned economist, who was brutally attacked by a large pack of stray dogs in Sofia and died as result, had been a devoted lover of animals and nature.
Bulgaria holds the dubious honor of having the highest prices of postage in Europe when compared to the relative purchasing power of the population, a BBC survey has shown.
Bulgarian Orthodox Christians mark on April 9 Holy Monday – the first day from the most important week – the Holy Week.
Temperatures in Bulgaria during the Easter holidays are forecast to reach 22-23C, but the sunshine delight will be coupled with shower spells as a Mediterranean cyclone will sweep through the country.
Top sumo wrestler, Bulgarian Kaloyan Mahlyanov, aka Kotooshu, has revealed to the public for the first time his four-month-old son, named Cyril.
Ilian Iliev, former international football midfielder and current manager of Beroe Stara Zagora, will become the new coach of Bulgarian major football club Levski Sofia at the end of the season in the summer.
The 53-year-old Vasil Lazov who was shot dead in Bulgaria's capital Sofia in broad daylight on Monday was a car insurer with a criminal record.
A man has been shot dead in Bulgaria's capital Sofia less than a week after another gangland murder.
A Bulgarian man had shot and wounded his neighbor in the village of Gramada in the northwestern Vidin region after opening fire at stray dogs.
US teen pop star and actor Selena Gomez will be coming to Bulgaria to shoot a movie called "The Getaway", Gomez herself revealed in a YouTube video.
A small-scale war was waged in Sofia's fashion street late on Saturday, but instead of police officers and protestors, warriors bearing pillows faced off.
As Europe's poorest county, where the average monthly salary is just 250 Euros, Bulgaria is keen to attract foreign investment, but with many graduates leaving for work in other EU countries, man power is becoming limited.
A: Bulgarians are true survivors – every time they miraculously manage to find their way out of the most difficult situations!
"In the Scandinavian countries happy individuals gunned down each other and 70-80 people deid.
Former South Ossetian KGB head Leonid Tibilov has been elected new president of the breakaway republic in a vote condemned by Georgia and welcomed by Russian lawmakers.
Gunmen in Nigeria have killed at least four people, including a six-year-old girl, in separate attacks in towns in the country's northeast.
Iran has reportedly blocked the website for the 2012 London Olympics.
The body of the 77-year-old retired Greek pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas, who committed suicide at a central Athens square last Wednesday, will be cremated in Bulgaria.
As North Korea presses forward with a controversial rocket launch and amid reports it is also planning a nuclear test, foreign journalists were granted a rare glimpse Sunday of the reclusive country's preparations.
Nobel laureate writer Guenter Grass of Germany has been declared "persona non grata" in Israel over a controversial poem.
Botio Tachkov, 88, died Sunday, after being brutally attacked by a large pack of stray dogs in Sofia.
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