A Spanish-Chinese consortium called SPHIMX has expressed interest in building a third Danube bridge linking Bulgaria and Romania, according to the Mayor of the Bulgarian Danube city of Silistra Yulian Naydenov.
Around 100 construction companies based in Southwestern Bulgaria have gone bankrupt over the past two years and the situation has changed completely as compared to 2008.
Bulgaria's central bank has taken a firm stand against the proposed 10% tax on deposit income, saying it would hinder growth and fail to plug the fiscal gap.
Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Delyan Dobrev has boasted about growing investment activity in Bulgaria.
RWE Transgas, the leading Czech gas importer, has won a dispute with Russia's gas producer Gazprom over the pricing of gas contracts.
Nearly three years after Bulgaria suspended its contract with Fitch, the rating agency was surprisingly selected by the state energy holding company.
Bulgaria is described as an attractive tourist destination in a newly published 90-page catalogue for 2013 issued by German tour operator REWE Touristik.
Bulgarians made 334 000 overseas trips in September 2012, according to data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI).
The number of Israeli tourists who have visited Bulgaria in September 2012 has decreased by 50% as compared to the same month of 2011, according to the country's National Statistical Institute.
Bulgaria stands to win more than any other country from Macedonia's integration into the EU, therefore backing it wholeheartedly, according to a statement of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov.
Bulgaria is a strategic partner for France in the region of Southeast Europe, French EU Affairs Minister Bernard Cazeneuve declared in Sofia Friday.
Bulgarian officials have blamed the country's latest failure to join the Schengen Agreement on Romania's upcoming Co-operation and Verification Mechanism report an on "internal political debates" in some EU countries.
The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) is conducting 42 investigations concerning Bulgaria, according to Sonia Klisarska, head of the AFCOS Directorate at the Interior Ministry.
A special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, will be entitled to not only probe the so-called credit millionaires, but expose their names too, parliament decided on Friday.
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Maxim is currently in hospital, local media have informed.
Sweden has run out of garbage and has been forced to import thrash from its other countries, with Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and the Baltic countries considered possible options.
Bulgarian actor Krastyo Peev takes part in Skyfall, the twenty-third movie of the James Bond series.
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks St Dimitar Day, believed to herald the beginning of winter, on Friday, October 26.
The Sofia Regional Court has ordered a mental health check for a Bulgarian female who cut the flag of the European Union at the Supreme Court of Cassation building.
Two members of parliament from the ethnic Turkish party have been charged with illegally earning more than a million and a half levs that was supposed to pay off building public facilities.
The police spokesperson who publicly insulted a man who dared to take pictures of napping policemen in the Bulgarian city of Varna is yet to be fired, local media have learned.
Facebook is looking into the apparent breach of its users' data after a Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist discovered that information and data about a huge number of Facebook users can be purchased online for pocket change.
Thirteen religious leaders accused of preaching radical Islam face up to five years in prison in a criminal trial that's testing the limits of religious freedom in this European country.
Russian protest leader Sergei Udaltsov has been charged with plotting mass disorder on Friday and could face up to 10 years behind bars if found guilty.
Italy's former Prime Minister, billionaire Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for tax fraud.
Georgia is not ready to restore diplomatic relations with Russia while it continues to "occupy" Georgian territory, Georgian Foreign Minister Maya Pandzhikidze said on Friday.
A senior British oil executive has been shot dead in a suburb of the Belgian capital Brussels, but it is still an open question whether the attack was work related.
The European Parliament has awarded its annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to two prominent Iranian activists, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and film-maker Jafar Panahi.
At least 30 people have been killed as a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Maimana, capital of Afghanistan's northern Faryab province on Friday.
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit the Calabria region of southern Italy early on Friday.
A while ago, a song "Our Police Is Guarding Us," performed by a close friend of Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, caused mass ridicule in Bulgaria.
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