A meeting of the regional organized crime combat units will take place on December 5-6, Boyko Borissov, Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry announced....
New law, regulating guns carrying, will be tabled in the Cabinet till the end of the year, Interior Minister Georgi Petkalov announced. The amendments to the law are ready, Petkanov explained The bill is provided to the other ministries and institutions f...
“The expected Bulgarian membership in EU and NATO will be achieved and it will bring to Bulgaria strategic investors,” Foreign Minister Passy said in an interview for the Athenian Daily Katimerini.
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“We see progressive government and economy in Bulgaria. Looking ahead we are sure that Bulgaria will become a member of the European Union....
Sports | December 2, 2001, Sunday
Bulgaria's Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviyski won the bronze in free skating competition in Kumamoto, Japan Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France won the gold medal. Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas of Lithuania took the silver medal....
Abstracted from the Bulgarian Press Agency
Sofix, the index of the Sofia Stock Exchange (SSE), rose by nearly four points in a week,
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Romanian news agency Rompres
Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase returned to Romania late [on] Friday [30 November] from a three-day official visit to Paris....
Customs Director Emil Dimitrov will not be dismissed, Minister of Finance Milen Velchev said for Darik Radio. ”We expect to see whether Dimitrov will be willing to work in cooperation with the British Company Crown Agents, which Ministry of Finance hired...
General Todor Boyadzhiev, MP from “ Coalition for Bulgaria” will be nominated for Ambassador to the United States. His candidature will be proposed by the Thracian Association to President-elect Parvanov....
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Stanimir Ilchev, Chairman of the Parliament foreign policy, defense, and security committee will participate in the Transatlantic Forum of the Parliament Assembly of NATO. The two-day forum, which starts on December 3d is organized with the assistance of...
Employees from the Bulgarian State Railways are to go on a strike on December 10, if not assured that their salaries and food allowances will be paid. In this way, the entire country will be paralyzed....
The Board of Directors of the Bank Consolidation Company (BCC) decided to sell its share of the Central Cooperative Bank (CCB) to the only candidate buyer Chimimport. The state share of CCB is 32....
The 44th congress of the Bulgarian Socialist Party to take place on December 16th was decided at the plenum of the Higher Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. At the congress, a new Chairman of the party is to be elected....
UN warns that AIDS is continuing to spread worldwide at a dramatic pace, with 40 million children and adults infected by HIV, an increase of four million from last year in a report, released to coincide with World AIDS Day on December 1. Dr Peter Piot, e...