Telenor Fined BGN 5.2 M By Bulgaria's Competition Protection Commission
Telecoms operator Telenor has been fined over BGN 5.
Business | October 18, 2016, Tuesday // 22:12
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ARCHIVE - 18 October 2016
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Telenor Fined BGN 5.2 M By Bulgaria's Competition Protection CommissionQualified Workers Rank 1st in Top 10 Sought-After Jobs in Bulgaria
Bulgaria's Energy Minister Dismisses Stanishev Cabinet Ministers From State Energy Ventures
FT: Bulgarian and Greek Pipeline Aims to Cut Gas Dependency on Russia
Business Property Deals Amount to EUR 225 M for January-September 2016
Politics
UNESCO Head 'Received Death Threats' over Stance on Jerusalem ResolutionUNESCO Adopts Resolution on Palestinian Cultural Heritage
EU Commissioner Georgieva's Past, Family Ties Questioned in Think-Tank Report
EU Audit Office: Bulgaria With Perfect Record in 2015 Cohesion Policy Projects
Patriotic Front's Valeri Simeonov Elected Head of Belene Commission
Indian Summer To Begin End-October
Bulgaria Parliament Scraps Month-Long 'Election Holiday'
Social Media Picks Up Bulgarian Oppositioner's Vulgar Reference to PM
Bulgarian MPs to Hold Emergency Session over Voting Rules
Society
Stage of Centuries Opera Season To Be Launched in Bulgaria's Tarnovo in 2017Bulgaria's Health Insurance Fund To End 2016 With BGN 50 M Deficit
Crime
Bulgaria Handed over 72 Turkish Nationals in 2016Lifestyle
Daily Mirror: Nicole Sherzinger Says She's Happy with Grigor DimitrovViews on BG
FT: Bulgaria Strives to Become Tech Capital of BalkansWorld
Russian, Syrian Forces Halt Strikes on Aleppo over 'Humanitarian Pause'EU Commission Denies Claims about VP Georgieva's Past
Bulgaria and Romania Maintain Reservations About EU-Canada Agreement
Turkey's Erdogan Statement on Western Thrace Angers Greece
Turkey Bans Public Meetings in Ankara Till End-November
Head of Greek Social Security Fund Makes Controversial Bulgaria Comments
In Post-Coup Turkey, Academics Turn to Alternative Universities
Macedonian Parliament Adjourned ahead of December Elections
Novinite Insider
Blair's Lover and Kadyrov's Friend: the Stranger Presidential Hopefuls of Bulgaria (Part 2)Catalonia: It's About Democracy
Business
Qualified Workers Rank 1st in Top 10 Sought-After Jobs in Bulgaria
Qualified workers rank first this year in the top 10 sought after jobs, followed by engineers, drivers, and restaurant and hotel employees, showed data from the annual survey of the shortage of talent carried out by ManpowerGroup Bulgaria.
Business | October 18, 2016, Tuesday // 15:55
Bulgaria's Energy Minister Dismisses Stanishev Cabinet Ministers From State Energy Ventures
Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has decided to replace the ministers from the Stanishev Cabinet who are now members of the management boards of state energy enterprises.
FT: Bulgarian and Greek Pipeline Aims to Cut Gas Dependency on Russia
A small but important gas pipeline eases Southeast Europe's dependency on Russia, the Financial Times notes in a story on the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB).
Business Property Deals Amount to EUR 225 M for January-September 2016
Real estate deals with business property in Bulgaria, signed over the period January-September 2016, amounted to EUR 225 M, showed a survey carried out by consultancy company Forton and unlisted company Cushman&Wakefield.
Politics
UNESCO Head 'Received Death Threats' over Stance on Jerusalem Resolution
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has received "death threats' over her supposed reservations about a resolution that would only highlight holy sites in Jerusalem as Muslim and not Jewish.
Politics | October 18, 2016, Tuesday // 09:56
UNESCO Adopts Resolution on Palestinian Cultural Heritage
UNESCO has officially adopted the resolution on the preservation of Palestinian cultural heritage in East Jerusalem which caused angry protests on the part of Israel, reported BNR.
EU Commissioner Georgieva's Past, Family Ties Questioned in Think-Tank Report
EU Commission Vice President Kristalina Georgieva was an informant with the State Security (DS), the Soviet-era intelligence and counter-intelligence services of Bulgaria, according to a publication by the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
EU Audit Office: Bulgaria With Perfect Record in 2015 Cohesion Policy Projects
Bulgaria is among the countries without any mistakes in the management of projects under the cohesion policy of the EU, showed the annual report of the European Court of Auditors on the implementation of the European budget for 2015, presented to the Coun
Patriotic Front's Valeri Simeonov Elected Head of Belene Commission
Valeri Simeonov from the Patriotic Front has been elected chairman of the commission which will investigate the facts regarding the Belene nuclear power plant.
Indian Summer To Begin End-October
The arrival of the Indian summer is expected at the end of October and beginning of November.
Bulgaria Parliament Scraps Month-Long 'Election Holiday'
Lawmakers in Bulgaria have voted to reverse last week's decision not to convene until after the presidential elections on November 06.
Social Media Picks Up Bulgarian Oppositioner's Vulgar Reference to PM
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has kept a stiff upper lip after a vulgar address used by an opposition party leader - but social media haven't.
Bulgarian MPs to Hold Emergency Session over Voting Rules
Lawmakers in Bulgaria are to reconvene on Tuesday to vote on urgent amendments to the Electoral Code, less than 20 days before the presidential elections.
Society
Stage of Centuries Opera Season To Be Launched in Bulgaria's Tarnovo in 2017
The preparation for the Second Summer Season of Bulgarian Opera Theatres “Stage of Centuries” has begun with a working meeting of the mayor Veliko Tarnovo Daniel Panov, and the directors and representatives of the state operas in Varna, Plovdiv, Stara Zag
Bulgaria's Health Insurance Fund To End 2016 With BGN 50 M Deficit
The National Health Insurance Fund (NZOK) will end 2016 with a deficit of about BGN 50 M, which it will transfer and pay via the budget next year.
Crime
Bulgaria Handed over 72 Turkish Nationals in 2016
Bulgarian authorities have handed over some 72 Turkish nationals to their homeland since January 2016, the deputy head of Bulgaria's border police has said.
Crime | October 18, 2016, Tuesday // 13:28
Lifestyle
Daily Mirror: Nicole Sherzinger Says She's Happy with Grigor Dimitrov
Former Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger has admitted to being very happy with Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov.
Lifestyle | October 18, 2016, Tuesday // 10:10
Views on BG
FT: Bulgaria Strives to Become Tech Capital of Balkans
Bulgaria is striving to catch up with central Europe and its shift to innovative and creative industries, the Financial Times says in a recent story.
Views on BG | October 18, 2016, Tuesday // 07:40
World
Russian, Syrian Forces Halt Strikes on Aleppo over 'Humanitarian Pause'
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said the air forces of Russia and Syria will stop pounding the Syrian city of Aleppo to usher in the "humanitarian pause" successfully on October 20.
World | October 18, 2016, Tuesday // 12:26
EU Commission Denies Claims about VP Georgieva's Past
The European Commission has fully rejected claims in an investigation which recently claimed she had been an informant for Soviet-era State Security (DS) in Bulgaria.
Bulgaria and Romania Maintain Reservations About EU-Canada Agreement
Bulgaria and Romania maintain their reservations with respect to the signing of a trade agreement between the EU and Canada, reported BTA.
Turkey's Erdogan Statement on Western Thrace Angers Greece
The Greek Foreign Ministry has warned Turkish President Erdogan that he should respect international agreements.
Turkey Bans Public Meetings in Ankara Till End-November
Authorities in the Turkish capital Ankara have banned public meetings and manifestations until the end of November due to signals of the security forces that extremists are planning attacks on the city which was the target of several terrorist acts in the
Head of Greek Social Security Fund Makes Controversial Bulgaria Comments
The president of Greek self-employed professionals' social security fund has argued that whoever is unable to pay his contributions in combination with the excessive taxation should take their family and move to Bulgaria.
In Post-Coup Turkey, Academics Turn to Alternative Universities
Kocaeli, Turkey (dpa) - About 100 students cram into this room in the city of Kocaeli, some 100 kilometres east of Istanbul, to hear a social sciences lecture by Guven Bakirezer.
Macedonian Parliament Adjourned ahead of December Elections
Macedonia's Parliament has dissolved itself, paving the way for the early parliamentary vote at the end of this year.
Novinite Insider
Blair's Lover and Kadyrov's Friend: the Stranger Presidential Hopefuls of Bulgaria (Part 2)
There are as many as twenty-one presidential pairs running the forthcoming elections in Bulgaria, all competing to take over the office of President.
Novinite Insider | October 18, 2016, Tuesday // 11:23
Catalonia: It's About Democracy
Novinite is publishing a piece by Ra?l Romeva, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Institutional Relations and Transparency of the Government of Catalonia.
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