Bulgaria has completed the rehabilitation of its key southern railway linking the cities of Plovdiv and Burgas at about 35%, the Transport Ministry announced Friday night.
Bulgaria's capital Sofia will have its first operational overpass road junction in July 2012, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova promised.
Former presidential candidate Rumen Hristov has declared that he will run for chairman of Bulgaria's right-wing Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) party.
Bulgaria's former prime minister, die-hard right-winger Ivan Kostov, has praised the cabinet for its decision to tap international markets.
According to flash data about revenues as of beginning of May 2012, Bulgaria's State budget is balanced for the first time since June 2009.
Bulgaria's parliament ratified on Friday the contracts with BNP Paribas, HSBC and Raiffeisen as mediators for the eurobond issue that the country plans to float this year.
The European Commission is pressing Greece to wind down or close some banks, possibly including its fifth-largest lender ATEbank, according to Brussels sources.
Bulgaria's Minister of Economy and Energy, Delyan Dobrev, will ask the Public Financial Inspection Agency, ADFI, to audit a EUR 250 M loan taken in 2004 by the National Electric Company, NEK.
Bulgaria is still having disputes with Russia over the ways to finance the construction of the South Stream gas transit pipeline, and the allocation of the profit, Bulgarian Economy Minister Delyan Dobrev said Friday.
Bulgaria's government has offered the European Union to change the principle of determining fuel excise duty, according to Energy and Economy Minister Delyan Dobrev.
Russia's state-owned Rosatom is ready to build Unit 7 at Bulgaria's Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, the company's CEO Sergey Kiriyenko has declared.
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has reiterated Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's position that Bulgaria does not agree with FYROM calling itself "Republic of Northern Macedonia" as a way to resolve its name dispute with Greece.
Bulgaria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Stefan Tafrov, has presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia announced.
Turkey has never had territorial claims against Bulgaria or any of its other neighboring countries, Turkish Ambassador to Bulgaria Ismail Aramaz has declared.
Bulgaria is strictly against the inclusion of a geographical term in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's potential new name, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has declared.
My cherished dream is to see all countries on the Balkans as EU members, says Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
The European Parliament has reacted with strong criticism to the agreement reached on Thursday by the Justice and Home Affairs Council that seeks to reintroduce border control within the Schengen zone in case of an emergency migrant influx.
The new Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) should appoint the next Chief Prosecutor, Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, announced Friday.
The customs office in the southern Bulgarian town of Svilengrad will not be closed, according to Irena Uzunova, District Governor of Haskovo.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has opposed the idea that the current members of the Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) should appoint the next Chief Prosecutor.
Customs Agency head Vanyo Tanov expects a decrease in revenues from excise duty on cigarettes after the entry into force of the total ban on smoking in indoor public places.
The Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS) has confirmed the rulings of two previous courts rejecting the the claim of Bulgaria's former Tsar and PM Simeon Saxe-Coburg and his sister Maria-Louisa in the dispute over the former royal palace Krichim.
The Bulgarian authorities have confirmed the death of three workers caused by the explosions at an ammunition depot near Sliven in Southeastern Bulgaria on Tuesday, June 5, 2012.
The three employees that went missing after an ammunition depot exploded in Bulgaria on Tuesday are dead, according to Kalin Georgiev, Head Secretary of the Interior Ministry.
The relatives of the three workers, who are still missing in the blast that shook an ammo depot in southeastern Bulgaria, declared intentions to sue the State over its slow search and rescue reaction.
Bulgarian police authorities are after two bikers who entered a mall in the capital Sofia on Thursday, shocking visitors and shopkeepers alike.
Bulgaria is in for three days of sizzling heat as temperatures are expected to reach 33-34 C on Friday and Saturday.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake has struck the western parts of Turkey, including Istanbul, shaking apartment buildings, rattling windows and causing residents to rush into the streets.
Latin diva Jennifer Lopez is to bring some white-hot passion to Bulgaria in November, six years after surprisingly cancelling her planned gig here.
Russia's national football team defeated the Czech Republic 4:1 in the two teams' first match in the group phase at UEFA Euro 2012.
Poland and Greece have ended the first match of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in a 1:1 draw in Warsaw.
Poland and Russia will dominate the opening day of matches at Euro 2012, a Ukrainian pig billed as the tournament's fortune telling expert indicated Friday.
Argentina football legend Diego Maradona believes Germany are the strong favorites to win Euro 2012.
Co-hosts Poland open Euro 2012 on Friday, hoping for a dream start against Greece – a team that has already managed to pull off one of the remarkable upsets in the tournament's history.
After weeks of anticipation, speculation and debate, Euro 2012 finally gets under way on Friday when co-hosts Poland take on Greece in Warsaw.
A mass fight with knifes, axes, and gas pistols erupted in broad daylight between two Roma families in the Bulgarian town of Vetovo, near the Danube city of Ruse on Friday.
Two servicemen from the Bulgarian military aviation ground Bezmer have been arrested Friday over the theft of large amount of active shells.
Bulgaria's special anti-mafia Prosecutor's Office has charged notorious Bulgarian gangster pair Angel Hristov and Plamen Galev aka the "Galevi brothers" with money laundering in the amount of BGN 35.5 M.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Friday a controversial new law that increases the maximum fines for protest-related offenses.
Greece Police are still searching for Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris who attacked Communist lawmaker Liana Kanelli during a television show on Thursday.
UK government ministers will boycott England's group games in the European football championships in Ukraine, BBC reported.
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