Bulgaria President Calls for Standardizing Public Procurement Procedures
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has called for standardizing public procurement procedures in order to boost transparency and predictability.
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Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has called for standardizing public procurement procedures in order to boost transparency and predictability.
Bulgarian telecom Vivacom (BTC) now has a new majority owner, after NEF Telecom Bulgaria sold last week its 93.99% stake to the newly registered company Viva Telecom Bulgaria.
Petko Nikolov, Chair of Bulgaria's Commission for Protection of Competition (KZK), has said that the watchdog is ready to check whether taxi companies in Sofia acted in collusion to increase fares as of November 1.
Bulgaria's government will come up with its investment decision for the construction of the Russian-sponsored gas transit pipeline South Stream on November 15, 2012, President Rosen Plevneliev announced.
Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has received an invitation from Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the South Stream gas pipeline.
The creation of an integrated brand of Bulgaria as a tourist destination is to be wrapped up by February 2013, according to Deputy Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism Ivo Marinov.
Bulgaria does not have a problem with Macedonia and its quest for EU membership but with the nationalist rhetoric of some of its political leaders, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Mladenov said at a meeting with his Greek and Romanian counterparts.
The United States Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has sent a letter to Bulgarian Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, to thank him for his personal dedication for the deepening cooperation between the two countries.
The Balkans' three major EU member states, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania, have set out to "speak with one voice" in the European Union, their foreign ministers made it clear in a trilateral meeting in Sofia Monday.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has argued that Bulgaria should have been admitted into Schengen a long time ago if its success in guarding EU borders had been truly taken into account.
Bulgaria and the European Commission are yet to negotiate funding under operational programs in the period 2014-2020 for the construction of second-class roads and subsidies for cultural and historical heritage, according to Tomislav Donchev.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Romania and Bulgaria are discussing Monday the policy of enlargement of the European Union in the Western Balkans and EU border security.
The reputation of one person cannot be more important than the reputation of the State, Bulgaria's Justice Minister, Diyana Kovacheva, commented Monday.
Controversial Bulgarian magistrate, Veneta Markovska, who was recently elected constitutional judge, has postponed taking the oath of office in awaiting the results of a probe of all tipoffs against her.
Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has reiterated calls on controversial magistrate, Veneta Markovska, who was recently elected constitutional judge, to withdraw.
Plovdiv Bishop Nikolay has announced Monday his official position on the selection of Varna metropolitan Kiril to serve as interim Sofia metropolitan bishop and interim head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
Six tourist routes in Bulgaria's Vitosha Mountain will be restored and equipped with new signs with EU money under a project won by Vitosha Nature Park.
An earthquake with a 3.4 magnitude on the Richter scale has been registered in Romania's region of Vrancea, some 380 km northeast of Bulgaria's capital Sofia.
Bulgaria's Culture Minister, Vezhdi Rashidov, has informed Monday that the unique gold Thracian treasure recently discovered in the famous Sveshtari tomb in Bulgaria would be soon displayed at the Louvre.
A total of thirty eight doctors and nurses from the Regional Blood Transfusion Center in Bulgaria's Black Sea capital Varna are quitting because of low salaries and poor work conditions.
A tidal wave of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants is threatening to swamp Britain — and flood our overstretched jobs market.
The Polish military prosecutor has exhumed the remains of two of the victims of the 2010 Smolensk air crash disaster, in which the Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed, on suspicion that there may have been a mix-up over the bodies.
The USA is to become the world's top producer of oil and gas around 2020, overtaking Saudi Arabia until the middle of that decade, the International Energy Agency said on Monday.
The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), has registered an increase in attacks and pressure on Greek journalists, it said in a statement.
Moscow's first 24-hour English-language radio station, Moscow FM, started broadcasting on Monday.
The Greek Parliament has approved the 2013 austerity State budget.
If you want to understand the nature of the Greek crisis – sit in a darkened room watching Zorba the Greek.
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