The Government has published an advertisement in The Financial Times about the privatization of Commercial Bank Biochim. Great interest has been shown in Biochim so far....
The Agency for Post–Privatization Control will have a Supervisory Board with five members, to be appointed by Parliament. That was decided by the MPs of the Economy Policy Committee with Parliament during the second reading of the Privatization Act....
The privatization strategy for the State Savings Bank will be ready in February the latest since the Government has committed to that its agreement with the IMF. The deadline for the strategy is March, Finance Minister Milen Velchev said....
Standart Daily
BY Assia Mollova
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World | December 14, 2001, Friday
Citing "technical evidence", India's Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said the Pakistan-based Kashmiri separatist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the attack that left 12 people dead during the 50-minute gunbattle on India's parliament....
The reform of the Bulgarian Army and the actualisation of Plan 2004 were discussed at a meeting of the officials of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army with the military attaches, accredited in Bulgaria....
The World Bank will most probably grant USD 80 M – USD 100 M for the creation of a guarantee fund supporting the land owners and the security against fires in forests, it emerged after a meeting of Deputy Agriculture Minister Adriana Tosheva and World Ban...
The visa agreement between Bulgaria and Russia may be signed in the beginning of next year when the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy will visit Moscow. This information emerged after a meeting between Passy and the ambassadors of the Commonwealth...
Foreign Minister Passy neither confirmed nor denied the possibility of a future visit to Tripoli, where on December 22 the court is expected to pass its final verdict on the case of the Bulgarian medics. The Bulgarian medics were accused of deliberately i...
Late on December 13 the Prime Minister delivered a lecture in front of German businessmen in Berlin. He underscored that today the Bulgarian economy is characterized by sustainable macroeconomic stability....
Radio Deutsche Welle
After the consequent round of the accession negotiations, which is the last one during the Belgian EU Presidency, most of the candidate-members have already opened almost all of the chapters of the negotiations and most of them have...
Mihail Orda, MP from the Chamber of Representatives of the Belarus Parlaiment, and Venko Alexandrov, Bulgarian MP, signed an agreement on cooperation and improvement of interaction between the parliaments of Belarus and Bulgaria....
BGN 594,405,400 subsidies will be granted to municipalities next year. The provided general subsidy to municipalities amounts to BGN 366,562,400, the target subsidy for social aids – to BGN 153,399,800, the target subsidy for capital costs – to BGN 135,00...
European Parliament President Nicole Fontaine said she wants fixed dates for the entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the EU during the meeting of the EU state and governmental heads in Laeken, Belgium. She said the European Commission sent out a clear sign...
On December 15, at its 44th Congress, the Bulgarian Socialist Party is expected to elect its new leader. Parvanov, President Elect and current Socialist leader said that he will personally nominate Sergey Stanishev to the position....