The Bulgarian government through its Privatization Agency has embarked Friday on a new campaign to privatize troubled Bulgarian State Railways BDZ's profit-making Freight Services unit to make up for losses from its passenger unit.
Bulgaria outpaces Romania in the 2012 edition of the Best Countries for Business ranking of Forbes.
Unemployment in Bulgaria has reached 11% in October 2012, according to data of the Employment Agency, which is 0.4% higher than September.
Industrial entrepreneurs in Bulgaria expect an annual increase in investments by 4.3% by end-2012, according to a survey of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) conducted in October.
Bulgarian TV transmission network operator NURTS has awarded Harris Corporation a nearly USD 8 M contract to transition the country to DVB-T over-the-air digital television (DTV), the international communications and information technology company said.
The Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) and the management of the state-owned Maritsa Iztok 2 thermal power plant (TPP) have an investment plan to build two new units at a specially earmarked site at the plant.
Dimitar Gogov, CEO of state-owned gas supplier Bulgargaz, has said that the 20% discount on Russian gas supplies for Bulgaria entering into force on January 1, 2013 will reduce prices for end-consumers by at least 5-7%.
According to the Ski Resorts in Europe 2012/2013 survey of the European Consumer Centres' Network (ECC-Net), Bulgaria's Bansko is the cheapest option in the 51-100km category preferred by advance skiers.
Bulgaria's far-right, nationalist Ataka party staged a protest rally Friday against the visit of Turkish Defense Minister, Ismet Yilmaz, to Sofia.
The European Commission has voiced expectations for Bulgaria to adhere to rules of transparency and integrity in making senior judicial appointments.
Emil Stoyanov, who was elected MEP on the civil quota of the ruling GERB party, has unexpected quit the European Parliament.
Bulgaria's government is still keenly waiting a reaction from the European Commission, a day after the president blocked a judge suspected of graft from taking a position at the country's highest court amid EU concerns.
The Bulgarian Parliament's Legal Committee decided Friday to start a new procedure to elect and appoint a constitutional judge from the parliamentary quota.
The protest rally in Sofia, organized by the party Civic Movement for Real Democracy, GORD, of Bulgarian independent Member of the European Parliament, Slavi Binev, has turned into a riot and clashes with police.
Commenting on the postponed swearing-in of controversial magistrate Veneta Markovska as a Constitutional Court judge, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said that Bulgaria faced an unprecedented constitutional crisis.
The Bulgarian Parliament would be starting as early as Friday a procedure to elect a new constitutional judge from its quota, according to Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov.
The World Bank has sounded an alarm over the headlong fall in Bulgaria's demography and its gloomy implications in economic terms.
Three people have died in a fire in the old town of Sozopol, on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, which erupted in their wooden house and burned it down.
Bulgaria's government has approved a bill reinstating a ban on hunting brown bears that was lifted two years ago following the death of a man.
The lottery craze in Bulgaria continues unabated after the jackpot in Bulgaria's state lottery "Toto", totaling the whopping BGN 8.6 M, survived Thursday night.
Bulgarian Edward Antranik has been appointed coach of Angola's first league football team Kabuscorp do Palanca, the club announced on its website.
Interpol is going to restart the search for the perpetrator(s) of the terror act at the airport of the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas, says Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble
On a chilly November day, a Bulgarian farm village in the small eastern town of Sliven looked calm and peaceful, except a big winery in the center, after the end of the harvest season.
Jacky Comforty's documentary is a gripping retelling of how one nation's Jews and non-Jews banded together to face down the tyranny of World War II.
The residents of Israel's Tel Aviv appear not to be panicking by the first rockets to hit the city in 20 years, which Palestinian group Hamas keeps firing in reaction to an Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has sought government approval to mobilize up to 75 000 reserve troops for Israel's Gaza campaign, according to sources cited by international media.
Iran is ready to boost significantly output at its most controversial nuclear plant, a new UN nuclear agency report showed Friday, taking Tehran closer - in theory - to being able to develop a nuclear weapon.
Former CIA director David Petraeus testified behind closed doors Friday that he believes the Sept.
Iron Dome, Israel's theater missile defense system, is reported to be playing an increasingly important role in the growing confrontation between the Jewish state and Gaza-based militants from Hamas.
Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is in "increased pain" following her two-week hunger strike, but is too weak to receive full-scale treatment, her doctor said Friday.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has warned Israel against the continuation of its military operation in Gaza, saying it will pay have to pay "a heavy price.
Palestinian militants have nearly hit Jerusalem with a rocket for the first time in decades, and fired at Tel Aviv for a second day, in a challenge to Israel's Gaza offensive after an Egyptian bid to broker a truce.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Germany for involvement in a European Union "cartel" after Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country always coordinates its position with the other 26 EU member states.
Egypt's Prime Minister has vowed to intensify his country's efforts to achieve a truce as the deadly aerial volleys between Israel and Hamas-led Gaza continued Friday with one rocket landing in a field outside Jerusalem.
The Serbian government met on Friday in Belgrade and decided to reduce its cooperation with the Hague-based UN War Crimes Tribunal to a technical level.
Thousands of angry Palestinians have rallied across the West Bank urging Hamas militants to "bomb Tel Aviv" as Israel pursued its air campaign on the Gaza Strip.
An oil rig has exploded off the coast of Louisiana, killing at least two workers and sending four others to hospitals Friday while two others were believed to be missing, the US Coast Guard has announced.
The firing of long-range rockets by militant group Hamas from Gaza into Israel represents a "very significant development" in the conflict with the Jewish state, the chief of another group, Lebanon's Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has said.
The confrontation between Israel and Hamas continued to escalate Friday when Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil visited the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army has started calling up 16,000 reservists in what might be a preparation for a possible ground offensive into the Gaza Strip.
The Hague War Crimes Tribunal has overturned the convictions of Croatian generals, Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, charged with atrocities against Serbs in the 1990s.
Egypt's prime minister has arrived in Gaza to show support to Palestinians, after Israel struck at more than 130 targets overnight, while militants fired 11 rockets from Gaza.
Ivan Dimitrov is a Bulgarian playwright, writer and poet. His play, "The Eyes of Others", recently became the first Bulgarian play to receive a major New York production.
Plagued by wrangling and greed, greatly discredited – this is what Bulgaria's Orthodox church has come to be in recent years, leaving Christian believers nothing but disturbed.
Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev has resorted to a dubious theatrical move by leaving the Constitutional Court inauguration to prevent a far more dubious judge, Veneta Markovska, from taking office.
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