ARCHIVE - 9 October 2012
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The President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria has proposed four measures aimed at securing additional budget revenues to implement the 10% increase in pensions from January 2013 and for other social benefits.
Business | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 17:50
The Bulgarian Organic Products Association has suggested that shops should keep organic products separate from conventional ones, while retailers insist that the items should be displayed alongside other food products in order to make it easier for custom
Business | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 16:44
Bulgaria's ruling GERB party will serve a second term in office after 2013, during which the country will re-conquer Russian and Arab markets, said Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov.
Business | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 16:19
Bulgaria is to launch a campaign to promote its wines in non-EU countries on January 1 2013, according to Bulgarian Vine and Wine Agency head Krasimir Koev.
Business | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 14:49
JTI (Japan Tobacco International) announced Tuesday that Vladislav Mihov has been appointed Country Manager to lead the company's business in Bulgaria.
Business | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 14:42
Bulgaria's Commission on Protection of Competition (CPC) has cleared a concentration through the acquisition of direct single control by Petroceltic International Plc (Ireland) over Melrose Resources, Plc (UK).
Business | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 12:00
Bulgaria and Romania will register economic growth of 1% and 0.9% respectively in 2012, according to the forecast of the October report of the International Monetary Fund, IMF.
Business | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 11:41
Germany and the EU will continue supporting financially troubled Greece, stated German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is on an official visit to Athens Tuesday.
Bulgaria's National Electric Company will start renegotiating the provisions of the long-term contracts with thermal power plants AES Galabovo and Contur Global Maritsa Iztok-3 to achieve lower prices of the electricity produced by the two US-owned TPPs
Bulgaria has renewed its bid to make the future gas interconnection between Bulgaria and Turkey a section of the EU-backed gas transit pipeline Nabucco.
Defense Ministers of countries members of NATO are meeting in Brussels for two days, starting Tuesday.
The British government has no intentions of limiting the access of Bulgarians and Romanians to the country, according to the UK embassy in Sofia's temporary director Catherine Barber.
Bulgaria's EU Funds Minister Tomislav Donchev announced Tuesday that a mobile unit of ten experts would start touring the country in November to help local authorities with the implementation of EU projects.
In the period January - July 2012, Bulgarian exports to the EU decreased by 0.6%, compared to the corresponding period of the previous year and amounted to BGN 13.8 B.
Romania's Senate has approved the ratification of a Romanian-Bulgarian agreement on the establishment of a common Functional Airspace Block (FAB).
Democracy in Bulgaria is in peril, according to a statement by opposition Movement for Rights and Freedoms following municipal elections in the village of Tuhovishta.
For the first time since the current Cabinet of the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, took office, nearly every other person has a negative opinion of its policies.
Skype has warned its users to be on the alert from a new dangerous malware that its being distributed on its network.
Society | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 20:06
Bulgaria's firefighting service has reported it has partially contained a wildfire that erupted Tuesday on the Vitosha Mountain just outside of Bulgarian capital Sofia.
A large wildfire has erupted Tuesday around noon on the Vitosha Mountain just outside Bulgaria's capital Sofia.
John Travolta has arrived in Bulgaria's capital Sofia where he is set to star in a new movie called "Killing Season.
Bulgaria's Culture Minister, Vezhdi Rashidov, is going to demand more money for his sector in the 2013 State budget.
Bulgarian Health Minister Desislava Atanasova has firmly refused to lift the full smoking ban in closed public spaces imposed in June.
Bulgaria's national homeless football team, known as "the Team of Hope, has progressed to the secondary stage in this year's Homeless World Cup in Mexico City.
Sports | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 09:20
All three defendants in the case for the 2000 murder of Bulgarian lawyer Nadezhda Georgieva have been acquitted by the Sofia City Court in a sitting Tuesday.
Crime | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 17:32
The entrance of Bulgarian capital Sofia's Palace of Justice, home of various judicial institutions and organizations, woke up "vandalized" with tomato paste on Tuesday.
Crime | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 11:31
The Sofia City Court will hear the case of former Defense Minister Nikolay Tsonev, Judge Petar Santirov and former Chief Secretary of the Finance Ministry Tencho Popov.
Crime | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 08:47
?The Traditional Bulgarian Restaurant "Borimechkata" has been offering exquisite Bulgarian cuisine for the past seven years.
Lifestyle | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 12:40
The Srebrenica Massacre does not constitute a genocide and Serbia as a state is moreover not responsible for it, stated Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic.
World | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 16:51
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt to become the first human to break the sound barrier without the help of a vehicle.
World | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 12:16
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has pardoned all citizens arrested in connection with the popular outrising that led to the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
World | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 10:57
North Korea has declared that its missiles can reach the US mainland - a statement that comes in response to South Korea newly unveiled missile deal with the US.
World | October 9, 2012, Tuesday // 08:11
Bulgarians' distrust for the Borisov Cabinet is unusually strong for the first time since it took over in 2009, according to an Alpha Research public opinion poll.
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