ARCHIVE - 18 October 2012
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Bulgaria will sell the state-owned 33% stakes in two units of power distributor CEZ on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) starting October 29, according to the press office of the Privatization and Post-Privatization Control Agency (PPCA).
Business | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 18:19
Radoslav Hristov, Deputy Chair of the National Association of Grain Producers, has warned about a looming grain crisis in Bulgaria in 2013 as a result of which bread prices could spike over BGN 2.
Business | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 17:20
Ilia Levkov, Chair of the Electric Vehicles Industrial Cluster, has announced that an electric vehicle assembled in Bulgaria will be released on the market in end-November.
Business | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 16:24
Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev has suggested that some state measures to attract investors set out in the amendment Investment Promotion Act are already yielding results.
Business | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 15:28
All EU leaders have acknowledged that Bulgaria has met criteria for Schengen accession and the matter need not be commented further, according to Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov.
Business | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 14:21
Bulgaria's Commission on Protection of Competition (CPC) has rejected a set of proposed amendments and supplements to the Public Procurement Act public procurement appeal procedures.
Business | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 14:11
Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov and Romanian PM Victor Ponta will be the first to officially walk through the currently finalized Danube Bridge 2 next Wednesday, October 24.
Business | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 12:45
A slump of car sales going on for a year in the EU has now also reached Bulgaria, according to data by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA).
Business | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 09:55
Bulgaria and Vietnam are developing fruitful cooperation, but could still do more, stated the finance ministers of the two countries.
Business | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 09:34
Rating agency Standard & Poor's has made a new downgrade of Cyprus's credit rating, this time with three degrees, from BB to B.
A flood of dismissals is about to hit Bulgaria's national electricity transmission company after a discrediting letter surfaced, allegedly reviving the nuclear power plant project at Belene.
Bulgaria's government has not halted the construction of Belene nuclear station and the project is in full steam, the right-wing opposition has alleged.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is on a two-day visit to the German free state of Bavaria Thursday and Friday.
Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has scolded a little some EU Member States that keep begging Germany for money, according to his own admission.
The European People's Party has rejected the nomination of former Foreign Minister and failed EU Commissioner-Designate Rumiana Jeleva from Bulgaria's ruling, center-right party GERB for a second term in office as EPP Deputy Chair.
Biofuels are one of the ways to reduce economies' oil dependence, yet their production raises serious questions, the EC acknowledges.
The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, the EU President, Herman Van Rompuy, and the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, are traveling to Oslo to be bestowed the Nobel Peace Prize.
Cooperation between Bulgaria and Romania is vital so that both countries achieve their goal to enter Schengen, stated Romanian PM Victor Ponta.
Bulgaria's top court has ruled against key parts of a controversial, but praised by the EU and US bill, authorizing confiscation of illegal assets, which the country's parliament adopted in May.
The "scientific conference" dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the birth of Lyudmila Zhivkova, daughter of Communist dictator, Todor Zhivkov, stirred a scandal and outrage in Bulgaria.
Less than a year before the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, the top polling agencies in the country have obtained controversial data and forecasts on the standing of the opposition.
The Plovdiv Regional Court exonerated Thursday Bulgaria's Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, in the libel case initiated by Miroslava Todorova, Chair of the Bulgarian Judges Association (BJA).
Society | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 17:23
The Plovdiv Regional Court is holding a session Thursday on the libel case against Bulgaria's Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, initiated by the Chair of the Bulgarian Judges Association (BJA).
Society | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 11:45
An American with Bulgaria roots, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, has topped the British magazine's Art Review's eleventh annual "Power 100" list of the most influential people in contemporary arts.
The exhibition opened by Societe Generale Expressbank and Sofia Contemporary shows selected projects for a bank card with a contemporary art design
Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who shot to stardom in the 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle, has died aged 60 after a long battle with cancer.
Controversial Bulgarian businessman and ex-secret agent Alexey Petrov will remain permanently in detention, Sofia court of appeals has ruled.
Crime | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 20:44
The Bulgarian Customs have discovered a total of sixteen very rare US and Mexican coins hidden in the ceiling of a train traveling from Bulgaria to Serbia.
Crime | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 17:51
Bulgarian police have hit upon an illegal workshop for weapons repair and production hidden in a mill near southern town of Asenovgrad.
Crime | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 10:38
Bulgarian Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has recently unveiled details of plans to impose a 10% tax on bank deposit income and to impose taxes on gambling and stock exchange profits in 2013.
The solar car charger is free for citizens to use as it generates its own energy.
"I scolded a little some EU Member States that keep begging Germany for money.
Quotes | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 16:48
"The two parties - Romania's Socialists and Bulgaria's rightists GERB - are going to come together on Danube Bridge 2.
Quotes | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 13:49
Trading in Google shares has been suspended after the internet giant released its third-quarter results early by mistake.
World | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 21:01
Newsweek, the second largest US news weekly magazine, behind Time, is about to end its famous 80-year-old print edition.
World | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 15:54
Too many Greek reforms are being implemented at a "snail's pace", German Chancellor Angela Merkel said before joining leaders at an EU summit.
World | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 15:15
A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad has been arrested in an elaborate FBI sting after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, US authorities said.
World | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 09:41
A representative of the US Department of State has supported claims by Turkey that a passenger plane recently grounded in Ankara transported Russian weapons for the Syrian regime.
World | October 18, 2012, Thursday // 08:54
"The clash between EPP and PES will take place in Bulgaria during the summer of 2013.
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