Bulgaria's government has gotten Georgia's authorities to agree to almost double the number of permits for Bulgarian freighters and transport companies, the Bulgarian Transport Ministry announced.
Retirement age in Bulgaria for males and females will be the same after 2020, according to the Minister of Social Policy and Labor, Totyu Mladenov.
The turnover of Bulgarian food and drink establishments will go down by BGN 300 M after the full smoking ban becomes effective.
The consumer price index (CPI) in Bulgaria in April 2012 compared to March 2012 was 100.
Bulgarian company Solarpro Holding has signed its first contract for setting up a photovoltaic park in Macedonia, the company announced.
Unit 7 of Bulgaria's Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, will become functional by 2022 or 2023 at the latest, according to Economy and Energy Minister, Delyan Dobrev.
Evgenia Haritonova, member of the State Commission for Energy Regulation (DKEVR), will be proposed for appointment as Deputy Energy Minister, according to Delyan Dobrev, Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism.
German energy company RWE has said that it might abandon the Nabucco gas pipeline project.
Employees of the Lead and Zinc Complex (LZC; OTZK), the largest Bulgarian producer of non-ferrous metals in the southern city of Kardzhali, have decided to stop road blockades and collect signatures for a petition.
Bulgaria must boost the administrative capacities of its local authorities, among other measures, in order to attract more FDI in the new global economic environment, Kraft Food Bulgaria CEO Antoine Collette recommended at the Bulgaria: Business UP invest
Bulgaria's Defense Ministry is about to sell a number of potentially attractive real estate properties, according to reports.
Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has boasted that the adequate measures taken by the Interior for ensuring the preservation of peace and public order in Bulgarian resorts has brought about a constantly increasing flow of tourists.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Bulgaria on Friday, May 18, it has been announced.
Bulgaria's newly-appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Egypt, Rumen Petrov, presented his credentials to the temporary government in Cairo, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia announced.
Bulgaria can play a crucial mediator role in getting Azerbaijan near to a European Union entry, according to Bulgarian Parliamentary Chair Tsetska Tsacheva.
Bulgarian officials will not boycott the Euro 2012 football championship in Ukraine due to concerns about the treatment of jailed former PM Yulia Tymoshenko, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has said.
Yemen shut put more efforts into guaranteeing the security of foreign diplomatic missions in the country, according to Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov.
EU's Foreign Affairs High Representative Catherine Ashton has condemned the recent attempt to kidnap Bulgaria's Ambassador to Yemen, Boris Borisov.
The Bulgarian Ambassador to the US, Elena Poptodorova and the US Ambassador in Sofia, James Warlick, are starting Monday their second diplomatic tour across the US in an effort to attract American investors to Bulgaria.
The European Commission has come up with a neutral statement regarding the recent assault against Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Macedonia Ivan Petkov.
The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) will file a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights over the death of a 15-year-old at a state-run childcare institution.
The Sofia City Court (SCC) has acquitted Lidia Shuleva, former Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet of Simeon Saxe-Coburg, on charges of malfeasance in office.
Meglena Plugchieva, who was recently proposed as Bulgaria's next Ambassador to Switzerland, has announced her plans to "gradually withdraw from active politics.
The ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, lost the local elections in the western city of Kyustendil because the opposition Socialists had purchased their votes.
The Coalition Kyustendil has secured a landslide victory in the Sunday elections for municipal councilors in the western Bulgarian city under the same name.
Bulgarian bagpipers will attempt to set a new Guinness Record on Wednesday, May 16.
Bulgarian Roma pop folk diva, Sofi Marinova, who will represent the country in the 2012 Eurovision contest, has left for Baku.
Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has been thrown out of the tennis tournament in Rome after losing in the first round.
Macedonia's former Deputy Agriculture Minister Zoran Danevski has been arrested in Bulgaria, according to the Radko Association, a political organization of Macedonian citizens with Bulgarian national consciousness.
Two residents of the southern Bulgarian village of Katunitsa have been sentenced to probation for damaging two cars owned by the notorious Rashkovi Roma clan in end-September 2011 amid heightened ethnic tensions.
The son of well-known Bulgarian businessman Grisha Ganchev, Danail and four other people, detained during the special police operation codenamed "Sugar," are to remain behind bars.
Last-ditch talks on forming a new Greek government are under way in Athens as the prospect of fresh elections looms.
Police in Azerbaijan on Monday broke up an attempt to hold an opposition protest in Baku as the city gets ready to hold the Eurovision song contest later this month.
Greek hotel owners expect to see a drop in the number of foreign tourists visiting the country during the upcoming summer season.
Bushehr, Iran's first nuclear power plant, will start commercial energy production by the end of 2012, the plant's Russian General Designer Valery Limarenko said on Monday.
The negotiations to form a new Greek cabinet have failed with the leader of far-left party Syriza declaring he will not attend coalition talks on Monday.
Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) and Novinite.bg are publishing an interview of the Bulgarian PR expert for the "Media on Air" talk show of the "Bulgaria on Air" TV.
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