In July 2012, the total business climate indicator, increased by 1.1% on the month, with improvements registered in the spheres of industry and construction and retail trade, while the services sector posted a decline.
A Bulgarian company has developed the security system at the Gucci Museum in Florence.
Bulgarians taking out loans to buy property had to dig deeper in their pockets to pay them off last month despite the government's promises and the country's successful comeback on international markets.
The construction of the future Unit 7 of the only Bulgarian nuclear power plant in the Danube town of Kozloduy should be completed in 2022, according to NPP CEO Valentin Nikolov.
The Bulgarian Socialist Party hopes that the date will be set for a referendum on the fate of the abandoned Bulgarian-Russian Belene Nuclear Power Plant project by the end of 2012.
Port Burgas is to open a passenger terminal and Bulgaria's state-owned Port Infrastructure company has launched a public procurement for the project.
A 7.4% year on year increase was registered in the number of tourists who visited Bulgaria in June 2012, according to the country's National Statistical Institute.
Bus drivers in Bulgaria will no longer deliver parcels, according to Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is to attend a reception in honor of the heads of state and government on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II ahead of the Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday.
The terror attack in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas has been masterminded carefully and in the course of several years, according to Foreign Minister, Nikolay Mladenov.
U.S. Ambassador James Warlick will conclude his service in Bulgaria and plans to depart the country on September 14, according to a statement of the US Embassy in Bulgaria.
Norwegian police authorities do not believe that tighter border control would stop begging in the country, local media say.
Three years after the cabinet of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, was sworn in office, Prime Minister and party leader, Boyko Borisov, says that after a while his rule will be assessed as extremely successful.
Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has claimed that Bulgarian authorities have prevented terror acts without giving publicity to the cases.
On their last workday before the summer recess, Bulgarian MPs will hold a closed-door hearing on the July 18 terror attack against Israeli tourists in the Black Sea city of Burgas.
The first group of Bulgarian citizens who were stranded in Stockholm after being lured to Sweden with the promise of work during the berry picking season have returned to Bulgaria, local media inform.
The parents of the stuntman who died in an accident while working on the film "The Expendables 2" in Bulgaria last year have filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the makers of the action film.
A five-member panel of Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court , VAS, has ruled to not put on hold the dismissal of judge Miroslava Todorova.
Code Yellow alert for dangerous heat is declared for 12 Bulgarian regions Friday.
Firefighters keep fighting the wildfire in the Sakar Mountain in southeastern Bulgaria for a second day in a row.
The hospital in the Bulgarian city of Burgas reacted well to last week's terror attack emergency, according to Gabi Barbash, an Israeli MD.
All Bulgarian football clubs playing in this year's UEFA Champions League and Europa League were eliminated by their very first opponents, a catastrophe unseen in 15 years.
With tens of thousands of athletes and fans in attendance and a projected four billion spectators expected to watch on TV, the London Games officially kicked off Friday night with a celebration at the Olympic Stadium.
The Bulgarian Olympic Committee has launched a formal protest against incorrect historical data in the information system of the 2012 London Olympics that seem to have disregarded Bulgaria's participation in the first Summer Olympics in Athens in 1896, th
They are one-eyed creatures with metallic bodies, built-in cameras and sci-fi genetics, who have taken over London and divided public opinion. They are of course London 2012's Olympic and Paralympic mascots -- Wenlock and Mandeville.
Nearly 9 tons of metal from Rio Tinto's Kennecott mine in Utah and its Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia were used for the 2012 Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals.
Bulgaria will be represented by 63 athletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.
The 2012 London Olympics, which are opening Friday, will feature 205 countries that are sending more than 10 000 athletes to compete in 300 events.
The London Aquatic Centre designed specially specially for the 2012 Olympic Games is one of the most impressive facilities built for the event.
Numerous media appearances are eating into the time of Bulgaria's legendary gymnast Yordan Yovchev, who will compete in his six Olympic Games in London, a record among male gymnasts.
With tens of thousands of athletes and fans in attendance and a projected four billion spectators expected to watch on TV, the London Games officially kicked off Friday night with a celebration at the Olympic Stadium.
Bulgarian investigative site Bivol.bg has published photos of the head of the alleged suicide bomber and perpetrator of the July 18 terrorist attack in Bulgaria's Burgas.
Bulgaria's Specialized Appellate Court released Friday afternoon Danail Ganchev, the son of famous Bulgarian businessman Grisha Ganchev, canceling the BGN 100 000 bail previously imposed on him.
Alleged top Bulgarian criminal Evelin Banev AKA Brando has been extradited to Italy Thursday with a flight from Sofia to Rome.
Bulgaria's prosecuting authority has pressed Friday new tax evasion and money laundering charges against media mogul, Lyubomir Pavlov.
The fake Michigan driver's license carried by the suicide bomber who killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver last week in Burgas was first spotted in the country five years ago, according to a government official.
Belgium is not currently investigating the terror act in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Burgas.
Two new computer-generated images of the alleged perpetrator of the terrorist attack in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Burgas have been prepared.
The need to send an on-site Israeli medical team was evident as soon as the news arrived about the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria, last Wednesday.
As expected, Bulgaria's government rode out yet another vote of no confidence this morning, but that won't make the issues that triggered it – corruption and organised crime – go away.
Earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cited Bulgaria as an exemplar of fiscal virtue in its response to the financial crisis.
A: Merkel has singled out Bulgaria as a star pupil.
US President Barack Obama said Friday he is releasing an additional USD 70 M for Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense syste, while citing the July 18 anti-Israeli terrorist attack in Bulgaria's Burgas as evidence for global security challenges.
The Syrian opposition announced Friday night that it has taken captive about 100 soldiers from army of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in ongoing fighting near the northwestern city of Aleppo.
Slobodan Milosevic's former spokesman Ivica Dacic has become Serbia's new Prime Minister, promising to promote reconciliation in the Balkans after his nomination triggered fears of resurgent nationalism in the volatile region.
Five years after joining the EU and three years after electing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Bulgaria is Europe's poorest country, its judiciary and law-enforcement – discredited, its people, surveys say, in as little control over their lives as Iraqis.
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