Bulgaria manages to absorb 85% of the funds under Operational Program Competitiveness thanks to the construction of Sofia Tech Park and the Bulgaria-Serbia gas interconnection, according to Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev.
Bulgaria is the world's 60th freest economy, According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom released Thursday.
Bulgaria has paid EUR 880 M on bonds due on January 15 after successfully floating EUR 950 M worth of five-year bonds at a yield of only 4.25% at the beginning of July, the finance ministry announced.
Bulgaria faces a penalty of up to EUR 120 M per year by the European Commission unless households stop using wood to heat their homes, according to Andrey Bachvarov, Chair of the Association of Biomass Energy Producers.
The construction of the Nabucco gas pipeline on Bulgarian territory will be launched in mid-2013, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has announced.
A bar crawl in the ski resort of Borovets is cheaper when compared with the usual big resorts.
The European Commission will come up with an oral presentation on Bulgaria's progress in the spheres of justice and home affairs in the second half of January.
Maria Ivanova, the Press Secretary of Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, has received a final warning before dismissal over a visual blunder in the presidential first New Year's address.
Bulgaria's next government will be a three-party coalition, the country's former Socialist president has forecast, declining to disclose its members.
As expected, Bulgaria's newly-elected Chief Prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, announced that his former rivals for the post – Galina Toneva and Borislav Sarafov – are to become his deputies.
Bulgaria marks Thursday the 16th anniversary of the first day of large scale protests that led to the toppling of the Socialist cabinet of Zhan Videnov.
Bulgaria's leading political parties would not be able to form a majority government even if they win the upcoming general election.
Sotir Tsatsarov is to be sworn in as Bulgaria's new prosecutor general on Thursday for a seven-year term.
In 2012, Bulgaria has registered 6 714 serious traffic accidents with 599 fatalities and 8 191 injured people.
A senior police officer from Bulgaria's Border Police in the city of Burgas has committed suicide while on duty.
There are strong suspicions that sixteen Customs officers from the Svilengrad Customs on the Bulgarian – Turkish border have been hired after presenting fake college diplomas.
The decree of Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, for the appointment of Sotir Tsatsarov as Chief Prosecutor is illegal.
Sotir Tsatsarov has taken the oath of office and has been sworn in as Bulgaria's new Chief Prosecutor.
Bulgaria's newly-elected Chief Prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, has invited for his deputies his former rivals for the post – Galina Toneva and Borislav Sarafov.
Bulgaria is being equipped with 8 new seismological stations, according to reports of Prof. Nikolay Miloshev, Director of the Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy, and Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Bulgarian far-right populist parties Ataka and VMRO are to stage a rally in front of the US embassy in Sofia on Thursday, the day that marks the anniversary of the 1944 bombing of the capital.
Bulgaria's Parliament passed Thursday final amendments to the Health Insurance Act.
The Bulgarian Football Union has announced that it will appeal against the sanction levied against it by FIFA for supporter racism.
Bulgaria's brand new Chief Prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, has been quick to state that he would request ASAP information about the action of the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office against the TV channel TV+.
A 71-year-old Scotsman was convicted Thursday and sentenced to 18 years of jail in the murder of an 11-old-boy in Northwestern Bulgaria.
Bulgaria's Varna District Court arrested Thursday Vladimir Yakimov on the basis of a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Regional Court in Prague.
The dead body of a 43-year-old Bulgarian prostitute has been discovered in the Dutch city of Groningen.
A gunman has shot two people at a high school in California, police have said.
"Lincoln," director Steven Spielberg's film about the 16th president and his battle to end slavery, topped the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards on Thursday, receiving 12 nods, including best picture, CNN reported.
The leaders of rival Palestinian fractions Hamas and Fatah have agreed to expedite a stalled reconciliation deal between them, according to officials.
Three female Kurdish activists have been found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in the Kurdish Institute of Paris.
One of the two reactors of Romania's sole nuclear power plant Cernavoda was shut down automatically by the safety system for unknown reasons late on Wednesday, according to reports of the plant's operator Nuclearelectrica.
Venezuelan authorities called for a massive rally in support of cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday.
As I somberly marked one year since the death of Teodora Zaharieva, the first Bulgarian who dared to wage a battle against the apathy and carelessness of the state towards cancer patients, the story of a young cancer-stricken lady shocked me.
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