German holding and insurance company Talanx has sold its subsidiaries in Bulgaria and Ukraine ot Euroins, a Bulgarian insurance group.
US-based ContourGlobal said on Friday any change in its long-term contract for electricity sales from its Bulgarian power plant Maritsa East 3 should safeguard the investments it has made.
Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova announced that the long-term contracts between the National Electricity Company (NEK) and the two thermal power plants AES Maritza East 1 and ContourGlobal Maritsa East 3 will be renegotiated.
The Energy Committee with the National Assembly has approved legislative amendments under which members of the state energy watchdog will be elected by Parliament.
In the last quarter of 2014 over 790 000 Bulgarian citizens completed tourist trips, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) reports in its latest data, which was released on Friday.
Bulgarian tourism remains a quite attractive investment segment with projects worth approximately BGN 2.9 B to be launched across the country in months.
President Rosen Plevneliev commended the Romanian judicial system and the country's efforts in tackling corruption at the highest levels, admitting that Bulgaria was lagging behind in this respect.
Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev is due to meet with Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis on a Friday visit to Bucharest.
Bulgaria has outpaced Italy and the Czech Republic in the rate of EU fund absorption, EU statistics show.
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Ivaylo Kalfin said during the parliamentary control on Friday that more than half of Bulgarian pensioners live below the poverty line.
Bulgaria is being imposed from abroad the EUR 8 B debt proposal now put forward for a vote in Parliament, nationalist Ataka party's leader Volen Siderov has argued.
Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) is to determine on Thursday next week who will take over as interim head of the Sofia City Court, Yasen Todorov, from the Ethics Committee at the VSS, has said.
People living in the village of Brankovtsi near Vidin protested Friday against the illegal deforestation in the vicinity.
The first time visit of shadow theater Fireflies in Bulgaria is scheduled for April this year.
Ombre is a Balkan western, or actually an ''eastern'' as the cast and crew often refer to it.
A twenty-six year old Romanian skier passed away on Friday after an incident in Bulgaria's ski resort Bansko.
Swiss police announced that two trains have crashed in the town of Rafz early on Friday morning.
A man is in critical condition after a mosque in the Black Sea city of Varna, Bulgaria burst into flames Friday morning.
The Bulgarian ensemble in rhythmic gymnastics started the new season in the most convincing way possible.
Bulgarian customs officers have seized 8.
Bulgarian model Rali Ivanova was arrested Wednesday in the US Pasco County over charges of driving under the influence of alcohol.
The state prosecution has dropped charges of attempted murder against the man who attacked the DPS party's honorary chair Ahmed Dogan in 2013.
Sofia Appellate Court (SAS) sentenced the former director of heating utility Toplofikatsiya Sofia Valentin Dimitrov to three years' imprisonment at second instance on charges of property mismanagement.
"John McCain is an absolutely senile man who came to Bulgaria and stopped South Stream."
"Chairs of district courts are between a rock and a hard place. If they allow [special surveillance devices], they could later be accused for aiding illicit activity. If they decline [to do so], they run the risk of being accused they foiled a probe."
Between four and 20 people have been killed and many injured in a suicide bombing of a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, international news outlets reported on Friday.
Finance ministers from the 19 eurozone member states were discussing a potential four-month extension for Greece’s bailout programme on Friday night at an emergency meeting in Brussels.
Greece and its eurozone partners seem to be on the verge of striking a compromise over the extension of the financial rescue package.
Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday said he felt certain eurozone finance ministers would grant his country’s request for a six-month extension to its EUR 172 B bailout.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis issued a joint call on Friday for NATO to increase its presence in the member countries on the eastern flank.
The European Commission stated that it expects to sign the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Kosovo later this year.
A meeting of Eurozone financial ministers is scheduled for Friday, in order for a solution to be reached for the crisis in Greece.
Former UK PM Tony Blair is to receive funding to advise Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, British media report.
Serge Schmidt, General Manager Bulgaria and Greece at Italcementi Group, has won the contest in the Business section of the 2014 Personality in the News, a poll conducted by Novinite.
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