The urgent privatization of Bulgaria's largest military-industrial plant, VMZ Sopot, has been touted again by the Bulgarian government as a way to cope with the social unrest in which more than 3 000 factory workers have gone unpaid for months.
The World Bank ranked Bulgaria 66th out of 185 countries in the 2013 edition of the Doing Business report.
The potential of malls in Bulgaria's capital Sofia has drawn in British department store group Debenhams.
The process of mallification continues unabated in the southern districts of Bulgaria's capital Sofia with three new enormous shopping malls due to open in the next few months.
Bulgaria will not implement a financial transactions tax (FTT), according to Deputy-FinMin Vladislav Goranov and ruling center-right GERB party MP Menda Stoyanova.
Societe Generale Expressbank was ranked 1st in Bulgaria in Euromoney's Cash Management Non-Financial Survey 2012.
A technical glitch has switched off Unit 6 of Bulgaria's Kozloduy NPP Tuesday morning, announced the NPP's management.
After editing by the Parliamentary Energy Committee, the two different versions of the question for the upcoming N-plant referendum in Bulgaria were made identical.
Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft will produce 5% of the global oil output after acquiring all of TNK-BP, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said on Tuesday.
The workers of VMZ Sopot, Bulgaria's largest military industrial plant, will stage Tuesday a one-hour warning strike over delayed salaries.
The Parliamentary Energy Committee will discuss Tuesday the issue of a referendum on nuclear energy in Bulgaria.
The index of residential property prices calculated each quarter by Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute has gone by 0.
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has issued a special statement denouncing the ongoing "extremism and violence" in Libya a year after the country's rebel movement formally declared the "liberation" from the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
One of the gravest problems for foreign tourists in Bulgaria is the "language barrier" between the international travelers and the Bulgarian police officers, foreign diplomats have told Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has restated his country's position that Iran is behind the July 18 anti-Israeli terror attack in Bulgaria, at a press conference with Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev Tuesday.
Bulgarian Finance Minister and Deputy PM Simeon Djankov's recent trip to Vietnam has led to critical and suspicious reports in the Bulgarian media.
Bulgaria and Israel are committed to deepening their common work in security matters and business, stated Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
MEPs have voted against the proposal of the last European Council to up the EU's budget with 2.79%, requesting the 6.8% raise initially proposed by the European Commission.
The European Union must have "a mechanism to terminate the authoritarian trends in its member states", Socialist Bulgarian MEP Kristian Vigenin told the European Parliament.
EU commissioners are scheduled to debate on Tuesday whether to set a 40% quota for women on the boards of listed companies, a proposal Bulgaria has taken a firm stand against.
Bulgaria faces the threat of poverty as much as crisis-stricken Greece, according to a survey presented by the Austrian Association for Political Counseling and Development.
Nationalists from Bulgaria's VMRO party have staged a protest in Sofia, demanding that the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party be declared unconstitutional.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and his ruling center-right party GERB are failing with the "propaganda situation" in the country for the first time, according to pollsters.
Bulgaria has been found guilty of failing to protect the right to life and of discrimination against a female Roma citizen, who filed a case at the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights.
A tow truck was chased by horse-mounted riders downtown in Bulgaria's capital Sofia Tuesday, after officers managed to tow the cart pulled by the horse.
There are exceptionally skilled hackers in Eastern Europe but their activity must always be considered against the existing political backdrop, according to Misha Glenny, distinguished journalist and historian.
Already meager salaries at Bulgaria's largest space observatory, located in Rozhen, will have to be reduced to 60% of their regular value due to lack of funds.
Depeche Mode will include Sofia in their world tour next year, the English band confirmed Tuesday during a press conference in Paris, which was also webcast live.
Bulgarian fans of the popular UK new wave band Depeche Mode received on Tuesday the exciting news of a planned concert in Sofia.
Former world number one, Venus Williams, will not join the upcoming Tournament of Champions in Sofia though she qualified after winning the Luxembourg Open title.
Access to the area around Banya Bashi, Bulgarian capital Sofia's central mosque, has been shut down by police due to a bomb threat that turned out to be a fake.
Some 600 kg of illegal drugs have been intercepted since the start of 2012 at Bulgaria's main international airport, located in capital Sofia.
The main buyers of the estimated 180,000 barrels of oil stolen each day in Nigeria are based in the Balkans, including Bulgaria, and Singapore, a Nigerian politician claims, as cited by BBC.
The Sofia District Police Directorate has specified that the bank robbery reported Tuesday morning was actually a raid on an office of insurance company Alianz.
Two natives of Bulgaria, who created counterfeit credit and debit cards from information they would steal at ATM machines in six US states, have been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison by a federal judge in Birmingham, Alabama, local media reported
An office of Alianz Bank in downtown Sofia was robbed in broad daylight Tuesday morning.
The European Tour has long sought to grow golf outside the continent, taking top players around the world to Asia, the Middle East and Africa, while its second-tier circuit even visited South America this year.
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"Because of Maria Sharapova's on-court shrieks, recordings of her matches should be aired after 10 pm.
Russia will scuttle any UN Security Council resolution that could be interpreted as allowing military action against Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned.
A Russian opposition activist was charged on Tuesday with planning mass disorder as the UN agency on refugees demanded an explanation for his disappearance from the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
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