World | February 7, 2002, Thursday
Wim Duisenberg, the Dutch president of the European Central Bank, is to resign next year. The date chosen - 9 July - is Mr Duisenberg's 68th birthday....
World | February 7, 2002, Thursday
Pakistani police say a British-born Muslim militant, Sheikh Omar Saeed, is implicated in the kidnapping of US journalist Daniel Pearl. "We are hunting Sheikh Omar......
Lawyers of Israel’s Zeevi Holding, majority owner of Bulgaria’s flag carrier Balkan Airlines, have lodged an appeal against the ruling of Sofia City Court on the amount of debt the Airlines owe to local and foreign creditors. Creditors should submit certi...
The European Union enlargement process is irreversible and Bulgaria will become a EU member, Guenter Verheugen, EU Enlargement Commissioner assured Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov during their meeting in Brussels. Verheugen pointed out the principle...
Bulgarian Telecommunication Company offered golden or easy-to remember numbers for fixed lines, just ten months and a half before its monopoly on fixed lines expires. Obtaining a number that includes four identical or consecutive digits (1111 or 1234) wou...
Bulgaria’s Refugee Agency has granted refugee status to 21 foreigners of three different nationalities in January. A total of 350 applications for refugee status from 14 countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East have been submitted in the Agency last...
The European Investment Bank will extend a EUR 17 M, 25-year loan with a six-year grace period to fund part of the rehabilitation project for the Danube port of Lom, the Transport and Communications Ministry announced. The port of Lom is an important part...
Kremikovtzi Steel Works and Turkish Kibar Holding Group set up a joint venture to boost exports of iron and steel to Turkey. Kibar Holding will control a 51% stake in the joint venture called Kremikovtzi Demir ve Celik Ticaret AS, while Kremikovtzi – 49%....
Deutsche Bank, the government consultant on the sale of telecom monopoly Bulgarian Telecommunications Company, suggested that pre-qualification requirements, ensuring the reliability of the bidders, are set, Dnevnik Daily reported, citing insiders. Accord...
World | February 7, 2002, Thursday
Queen Elizabeth marked 50 years on the British throne Wednesday with a visit to a cancer treatment center, harking back to the death of her father King George VI after battling the disease....
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Passy had to leave a meeting of President Georgi Parvanov with Javier Solana in Brussels to speak over the phone with the six Bulgarian medics, charged with intentionally infecting Libyan children with HIV. On Monday they were...
Nearly 100 people gathered to mark a unique for Bulgaria event in the Polish Institute in Sofia, namely the establishment of a Bulgarian Polish business club. Nearly 50 businessmen became constitutors of the club that will aim at developing the business c...
"Bulgaria is not just a NATO aspirant but an important NATO partner," NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said after talks with President Georgi Parvanov in Brussels. Robertson explained that for now, the Treaty had not decided which of the ten countr...
“Bulgaria’s participation in the global anti-terror coalition” will be the topic of the lecture Foreign Minister Passy will deliver at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, as a participant in the conference, "NATO, Terrorism and the New W...
A consortium of German companies DSD Dillinger Stahlbau GmbH and RWE Industrie-Loesungen GmbH was selected chief executor of Maritsa East 3 rehabilitation project by US-based Entergy and the National Electricity Transmission Company. Under the contract th...