IMF's Spring Outlook Slashes Bulgaria's Economic Growth Forecast
The srping World Economic Outlook of the International Monetary Fund has reduced the 2012 economic growth projection for Bulgaria by almost half.
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ARCHIVE - 17 April 2012
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IMF's Spring Outlook Slashes Bulgaria's Economic Growth ForecastBulgaria Sees EU's 3rd Lowest Inflation Rate March 2012
Bulgarian Analysts Raise Alarm over Looming Recession
Bulgarian Left-Winger Doesn't Give Up on Belene N-Plant Hopes
Pro-Nuclear Organizations Seek Public Discussion of Belene NPP Cancellation
Italian Firm to Invest EUR 6.5 M in Solar Park in Southern Bulgaria
Russia Awaits Payments for Bulgaria's Abandoned N-Plant
Electricity Prices in Bulgaria to Add 10% from July
No Written Objections from Alleged Fuel Cartel Participants in Bulgaria
Bulgaria's Gorubso Madan Mines back to Work
Bulgaria, Greece 'Swap' Record Number of Tourists for Easter
Bulgaria-Greece Border Record Busy during Easter 2012
Politics
Penniless Bulgaria to Give Up Building Turkish Border FMD FenceBulgaria's Mladenov Proposes to UK's Hague Joint Balkan Projects
Bulgaria, Vietnam to Launch Education Cooperation
Bulgaria Defense Minister: We Expected Kandahar Attack
Unhappy Hens Lay More EU Troubles for Bulgaria
Society
Bulgarian Drunk Driver Forced to Get Off Bus Carrying SchoolchildrenSofia Municipality to Spend BGN 3 M on Extra CCTV Cameras
Bulgaria Extends In Vitro Time with State Funding
Sports
Kaiserslautern's Bulgarian Coach Misses Out on 'Juicy Bonus'Crime
Murder Charge Brought after Mass Fight in Bulgarian VillageSmiles
Logical ThinkingQuotes
Today's QuoteWorld
UK Greenlights Hydrofracking for Shale GasNorwegian Mass Killer Claims Existence of 2 Other Cells
Russia to Deploy Missile Defense Radar in Transnistria - Report
Assange's Russian TV Show to Debut on Tuesday
Mass Murderer Breivik: I Would Do It Again!
Hundreds Protest in Skopje after Lakeside Murders
Australia Plans Afghanistan Exit
Dartmouth’s President Dr Kim Named World Bank Head
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Go for Post-Easter Restart!Business
Bulgaria Sees EU's 3rd Lowest Inflation Rate March 2012
Bulgaria's inflation rate was 1.7% in March 2012, EU's third lowest after Sweden (1.1%) and Greece (1.4%).
Bulgarian Analysts Raise Alarm over Looming Recession
Bulgaria's economy hovers on the brink of its second recession in three years in the wake of the slump in the euro zone, a Sofia-based think-tank has warned.
Bulgarian Left-Winger Doesn't Give Up on Belene N-Plant Hopes
The abandoned Belene Nuclear Power Plant project is not irreversibly dead and a referendum on its fate should be called, according to Sergey Stanishev, leader of the left-wing oppositional Bulgarian Socialist Party.
Pro-Nuclear Organizations Seek Public Discussion of Belene NPP Cancellation
Four pro-nuclear organizations have come up with a declaration against the suspension of the Belene NPP project and the transfer of the assembled Russian reactor to the Kozloduy NPP.
Italian Firm to Invest EUR 6.5 M in Solar Park in Southern Bulgaria
Italy's Urmet Group will invest EUR 6.5 M in the first major solar park near the southern Bulgarian village of Shishmantsi, Plovdiv municipality.
Russia Awaits Payments for Bulgaria's Abandoned N-Plant
Russia has fulfilled all its engagements concerning the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project that Bulgaria scrapped in March, according to Kirill Komarov, deputy head of Russian state-owned Rosatom's international business.
Electricity Prices in Bulgaria to Add 10% from July
Electricity prices will increase by around 10% from July 1, 2012, when the next regulatory period starts, according to Angel Semerdzhiev, Chair of the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR).
No Written Objections from Alleged Fuel Cartel Participants in Bulgaria
The four Bulgarian fuel retailers accused of entering into a cartel agreement have not filed written objections with the Commission on Protection of Competition (KZK) within the statutory 30-day period.
Bulgaria's Gorubso Madan Mines back to Work
Bulgaria's Gorubso Madan metal mines are to start working once again on Tuesday after the production process was halted for 46 days.
Bulgaria, Greece 'Swap' Record Number of Tourists for Easter
A record number of Bulgarians and Greeks have visited each others' countries during the Eastern Orthodox Easter holidays over the past weekend, border police data indicates.
Bulgaria-Greece Border Record Busy during Easter 2012
More than 100 000 Bulgarian residents have visited Greece in search of more exciting Easter holidays, obviously undisturbed by the economic turmoil in the neighboring country.
Politics
Penniless Bulgaria to Give Up Building Turkish Border FMD Fence
Bulgaria's government will reverse its decision to build a fence along its border with Turkey, a measure which was supposed to tackle the infiltration of foot-and-mouth disease-infected animals.
Bulgaria's Mladenov Proposes to UK's Hague Joint Balkan Projects
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has proposed to his UK counterpart William Hague joint projects for cooperation in the Balkans, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced.
Bulgaria, Vietnam to Launch Education Cooperation
Bulgaria and Vietnam signed a bilateral agreement for cooperation in the sphere of education during Bulgarian Parliamentary Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva's visit to the Asian country.
Bulgaria Defense Minister: We Expected Kandahar Attack
The Bulgarian troops in NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan were on alert for attacks on Sunday when they killed Afghan shooter in Kandahar, the defense minister has said.
Unhappy Hens Lay More EU Troubles for Bulgaria
Bulgaria, along with another eleven EU member states, risks to draw Brussels wrath for failing to comply with its hen welfare standards by the end-May deadline.
Society
Bulgarian Drunk Driver Forced to Get Off Bus Carrying Schoolchildren
A bus driver with with 0,7 promille alcohol in his blood was taken off the vehicle supposed to take students from the 18th secondary comprehensive school in Sofia to the town of Tryavna in central Bulgaria on an outdoor school program.
Society | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 17:59
Sofia Municipality to Spend BGN 3 M on Extra CCTV Cameras
Over 30 CCTV cameras are to be installed this week in Sofia's Borisova Gradina Central Park in a bid to boost the security of the citizens.
Society | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 11:38
Bulgaria Extends In Vitro Time with State Funding
Bulgaria's authorities have extended by six months the time for conducting an in vitro procedure with state funding.
Sports
Kaiserslautern's Bulgarian Coach Misses Out on 'Juicy Bonus'
As Kaiserslautern players resigned to the fact they will be relegated from the Bundesliga, their recently appointed Bulgarian coach had to resign to missing out on a EUR 100 000 bonus, media reports say.
Sports | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 09:32
Crime
Murder Charge Brought after Mass Fight in Bulgarian Village
One person have been charged with the murder of a 45-year-old Bulgarian man in a mass fight that took place in the Bulgarian village of Pravishte last Friday.
Crime | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 15:51
Smiles
Logical Thinking
A Year 5 teacher was giving her Primary pupils a lesson in developing logical thinking.
Smiles | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 08:07
Quotes
Today's Quote
"Going back through history, we see that events in Bulgaria are cyclic, but Bulgarians miraculously have always managed to rise like a phoenix from the ashes and be reborn.
Quotes | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 08:09
World
UK Greenlights Hydrofracking for Shale Gas
The UK government has backed the exploration of shale gas using the controversial hydrofracking technology, which has been banned by France and Bulgaria.
World | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 19:21
Norwegian Mass Killer Claims Existence of 2 Other Cells
Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people in twin attacks in Norway in July, has claimed that two other extremist cells exist in Norway.
World | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 16:30
Russia to Deploy Missile Defense Radar in Transnistria - Report
Russia intends to deploy a radar system of the "Voronezh" type in the breakaway Moldavian region of Transnistria, according to reports.
World | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 14:34
Assange's Russian TV Show to Debut on Tuesday
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's talk show, "The World Tomorrow," is expected to make its debut Tuesday on a state-funded Russian television network.
World | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 12:54
Mass Murderer Breivik: I Would Do It Again!
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has declared he feels no remorse for his actions and that "he would do it again.
World | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 12:27
Hundreds Protest in Skopje after Lakeside Murders
Some 1 000 Macedonians gathered in the capital Skopje late on Monday to protest in the wake of the brutal murder of five Macedonian men last week.
World | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 11:33
Australia Plans Afghanistan Exit
Australia will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan earlier than planned, the prime minister has said.
World | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 09:12
Dartmouth’s President Dr Kim Named World Bank Head
Korean-American Dr Jim Yong Kim, president of the Ivy League university Dartmouth, has been expectedly elected the next president of the World Bank, beating Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
World | April 17, 2012, Tuesday // 07:26
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Go for Post-Easter Restart!
The Easter holidays gave us a rare chance to navel-gaze and muse over man's inborn need to believe in resurrection and revival, to believe in good.
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