ARCHIVE - 28 June 2013
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Bulgaria's GERB Party Submits Proposals for Election Code AmendmentsSofia Airport CEO ResignsPresident Plevneliev Highlights Strategic Importance of Bulgaria-Greece Gas Grid InterconnectionRussia's Lukoil Buys Lubricants Business of Austria's OMVEnergy Act Amendments Pass 2nd Reading in Bulgaria's ParliamentBulgaria to Receive EUR 100 M under EU Scheme for Boosting Youth EmploymentGerman MP, MEP Concerned over Political Situation in BulgariaEU Welcomes, Praises Croatia on Eve of EntryEU to Decide on Blacklisting Hezbollah by End-2013, Italy SaysEU Pledges EUR 6 B to Combat Youth UnemploymentSofia Sees 15th Day of Anti-Govt ProtestsBulgarian Interior Min: No Known Murder Plots against Ex-PMBulgarian Nationalist Urges Crackdown on Protests, Threatens with Civil WarBulgaria’s Govt Has Just One Option - Resignation, Borisov SaysBulgarian Foreign Min: Protesters Are Decadent, Can Afford Caviar!Nationalist Anti-Corruption Head Shame for Bulgaria - Former President ZhelevBulgarian Deputy PM: Stepping Down Would Deepen CrisisAngry Bulgarians Hurl Tomatoes, Caviar at ParliamentBulgarians Stage Fresh 'Coffee Drinking' Protest in Front of ParliamentJamiroquai Lands in Bulgaria, Hours before Sofia GigBulgaria's Dimitrov Bows Out of WimbledonAssault on Medical Practitioners, Teachers in Bulgaria Punishable by 3-10 Years in JailToday's QuoteTurkey Moves to Curb Army Power amid ProtestsTsarnaev Indicted for Murder, Using Weapon of Mass Destruction
Three MPs of the center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, including former Parliament Chair Tsetska Tsacheva, submitted Friday their proposals for Election Code amendments.
Business | June 28, 2013, Friday // 20:37
Veselin Peykov, CEO of Sofia Airport, has resigned.
Business | June 28, 2013, Friday // 17:22
President Rosen Plevneliev has underscored the importance of the Bulgaria-Greece gas interconnection project after the announcement of the Shah Deniz consortium that it had selected the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) as a route to carry gas to Europe.
OMV Refining&Marketing GmbH has signed an agreement to sell its lubricants business to a subsidiary of Russian Lukoil Group.
A set of amendments to Bulgaria's Energy Act passed second reading in Parliament on Friday.
Bulgaria will receive around EUR 100 M from the total of EUR 6 B allocated by the EU for boosting youths' employment.
German MP Gunther Krichbaum and a MEP Markus Faber have voiced strong concern over the current political situation in Bulgaria.
Croatia is to become on Monday the first new member of the European Union club since Bulgaria and Romania joined in 2007.
EU is to make a decision in late 2013 on whether to include Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations, according to Italy’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Development and Cooperation Lapo Pistelli.
EU leaders pledged late on Thursday to launch a battery of new measures to combat the scourge of youth unemployment in the bloc.
On Friday evening, the 15th day of protests in Bulgaria, some 4500 people are chanting "Resign!" in front of the Council of Ministers building in downtown Sofia.
Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry has no information of any assassination plots against former PM Boyko Borisov, Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev said Friday.
Volen Siderov, the controversial leader of Bulgarian ultranationalist party Ataka (Attack), has urged the Interior Ministry to take tougher measures against anti-government protesters – whom Siderov perceives as “terrorists.
Bulgaria’s embattled Socialist-backed government has to resign in order to appease protesters and bring the state back into working regime, the former prime minister argues.
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin expressed his indignation at the news that a protester had thrown a tin of caviar at Parliament earlier on Friday.
Bulgaria’s nationalist leader Volen Siderov is totally unfit to head the parliamentary body for corruption combat and should be dismissed, Bulgaria's first democratically elected president argues.
Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev has defied nationwide calls for the government’s resignation, stating the move would “deepen the economic crisis.
Several hundred Bulgarians have gathered in front of Parliament to protest against the country’s Socialist-led government, with some of the protesters, throwing tomatoes, cucumbers and eggs.
Bulgarian protesters demanding the resignation of the country’s one-month-old government have staged a new protest in front of Parliament early on Friday.
British jazz funk ban Jamiroquai touched down at Sofia airport on Friday afternoon, hour before staging a keenly expected concert in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia.
Bulgaria’s tennis star Grigor Dimitrov suffered a defeat in the second round at Wimbledon following a thrilling five-set match against Grega Zemlja of Slovenia.
Sports | June 28, 2013, Friday // 18:20
Penal Code amendments stipulating a penalty of imprisonment for assaults against medical practitioners and teachers passed second reading in Bulgaria's Parliament on Friday.
Crime | June 28, 2013, Friday // 16:27
Serena: "If she wants to be with the guy with a black heart, go for it.
Quotes | June 28, 2013, Friday // 19:03
Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government has sought to amend an article of the Armed Forces charter cited by generals in the past to justify coups as defense of public order.
World | June 28, 2013, Friday // 11:22
A federal grand jury indictment has charged Boston Marathong bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with 30 counts, including detonating a weapon of mass destruction resulting in deaths.
World | June 28, 2013, Friday // 08:00
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