After terminating last month the monthly state subsidy to the ailing Bulgarian State Railways BDZ, Bulgarian Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has given the company management one weekend to come up with new reforms to save the company.
Bulgaria's transport authorities are going to form an emergency body in order to figure out a way to rescue the collapsing Bulgarian State Railways BDZ, the holding's CEO Yordan Nedev revealed Friday afternoon.
In Bulgaria, in the second quarter of 2012, the economically active population aged 15-64 was 3 283.1 thousand or 66.6% of the population in the same age group.
The passenger trains in Bulgaria can stop running as early as mid-August, according to Yordan Nedev, CEO of Passenger Transport of Bulgaria's troubled State Railways company, BDZ Holding.
Moody's rating agency has downgraded Slovenia's government bond rating by three notches — to just two above junk — due to concerns about the country's troubled banks and rising borrowing costs.
Bulgaria and Algeria have fully settled their debt issue after the latter has paid a total of USD 14.3 M to the former, the Bulgarian Finance Ministry announced Friday.
Greece's Eurobank has joined the race to buy Emporiki Bank of Greece, the Greek unit of France's Credit Agricole SA.
Private Turkish companies are showing interest in supplying natural gas to Bulgaria, according to Energy and Economy Minister Delyan Dobrev.
The price to construct a second Nuclear Power Plant in the Danube town of Belene is an impossible burden for Bulgaria, and will be the double of all assets of the country's energy sector.
Bulgaria has climbed 10 places to place 8 in the ranking of international property portal TheMoveChannel.
If Bulgaria retains its current parameters, it stands the chance of getting 10-15% more EU money in the next programming period, according to EU Funds Minister Tomislav Donchev.
Over 1400 Bulgarians started work in other EU Member States this year within the EURES network, according to Elena Vidinska, chief expert at the Bulgarian Employment Agency.
Bulgaria's coastal line from the largest resort Sunny Beach to the historical town of Sozopol will be cleaned with EU funding.
Bulgaria and Romania can end up not being ready to join the free Schengen zone in 2012, even gradually, says German Interior Minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich.
Dozens of sand sculptures adorn the entry to Sofia popular Southern Park, evoking feelings of sea and all the good that the summer season has to offer.
A powerful fire has broken out at Golyamata Kosmatka mound in Central Bulgaria, a site of some of the biggest archeological findings here.
Citizens of Bulgaria's capital Sofia protested on Friday against the upcoming new parking rules and hike in parking fees, slamming them as nothing short of racketeering and arm-twisting.
Drivers on Bulgarian roads will be required to have their lights on during the day too as of next week.
Ivan Shishman Street in downtown Sofia will be turned pedestrian once again every Sunday until the end of August in a bid to reduce air pollution from traffic and favor commuting by foot.
Busta Rhymes, Prodigy, and Korn are the biggest names on the program of the Spirit of Burgas music festival in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas that kicked off Friday night.
Prominent Bulgarian archaeologist, Professor, Nikolay Ovcharov, has discovered a second "womb" cave in the country.
Bulgaria's best female sprinter Ivet Lalova has made it to the 100 m sprint semi-finals at the London Olympics.
Bulgaria's Ivet Lalova will seek to enter the 100 m sprint finals at the Olympic Games after grabbing the European title in the same field earlier this year.
Bulgaria's shot putter at the Olympic Games Georgi Ivanov did not make it into Friday night's final after qualifying eleventh with a mark of under 20 meters.
Australia's men's volleyball team, known as the Volleyroos, have admitted their disappointment after a crushing loss to Bulgaria in an Olympic volleyball pool match.
Two men wanted by Interpol for terrorism, a Chechen and a Turk, have been arrested by the Bulgarian Border Police.
A Bulgarian court has lifted the ban on travels abroad imposed on the notorious former head of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund, who is standing trial for office abuse.
The Bulgarian authorities must reopen the investigation into the attack on award-winning investigative journalist Lidia Pavlova from the southwestern town of Dupnitsa, the South and East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO) urged in a statement Friday.
Bulgarian border police have detained a group of Afghanistan nationals who entered the country illegally.
Police officers from the Cultural Valuables Trafficking Unit of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry have busted a channel for the smuggling of historical and cultural valuables.
The Plovdiv Court of Appeals has sentenced Simeon Yosifov, 55, who ran over and killed 19-year-old Angel Petrov from the southern Bulgarian village of Katunitsa, to 18 years of imprisonment.
The Regional Prosecutor's Office in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas has asked a number of countries to trace possible cell phone contacts of the suspected terrorist responsible for the bombing attack on an Israeli tour bus.
"Every Bulgarian athlete is important to me, we have a delegation of 63 here in London and I am trying to follow everyone that is competing for our country at these Olympics" says Stefka Kostadinova.
THOUSANDS of Thais are arriving in northern Sweden on temporary work visas—to pick berries. Sweden's right of public access gives anybody the right to pick wild berries, even on private land.
"I hate terms such as "our state" and "our people".
Syria is planning to join the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan soon, Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Kadri Jamil said on Friday.
Court bailiffs have barred Russian opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny from entering the Khamovniki Court in Moscow in order to testify as a witness in the Pussy Riot punk band trial.
Irina Bokova, the Bulgarian Director-General of UNESCO, has asked the government of Iraq to divert an oil pipeline that goes under the ruins of Ancient Babylon.
US President Barack Obama continues to hold a 10-percentage point lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in this year's presidential election contest, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press said.
President Vladimir Putin spoke out against "judging too harshly" three Pussy Riot band members facing hooliganism charges for a February performance at a Moscow cathedral denouncing President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill.
Every four years one event, the Olympic Games, pushes to the background all other news and makes all the headlines.
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