The Cabinet approved a new categorization of refugees’ status. According to it refugees in Bulgaria are divided into four subgroups....
The Bulgarian Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg presented to Kofi Anan, Secretary-General of the United Nations a painting of the famous Bulgarian artist Svetlin Russev after his address to the UN Genral Assembly. During the discussion of the Council on Foreign...
“The Russian company “TVEL” won the tender to deliver fresh nuclear fuel for the 440 MW units of the Bulgarian Nuclear Plant Kozloduy,” Yordan Kostadinov, Executive Director of the N-plant, announced. “TVEL” won, being a traditional suppliers and because...
Alexander Alexandrov, sentry at the Iraqi Embassy in Sofia, committed suicide at about 1,10 a.m....
The Bulgarian Government approved a draft for a General agreement on cooperation in the field of economy, trade, investments and technologies between Bulgaria and the government of the Saudi Arabia....
The United States Ambassador to Bulgaria Richard Miles will visit Plovdiv and Haskovo in the beginning of next week. Ambassador Miles will get acquainted with the cooperation between Bulgarian and US companies in the field of agriculture....
Bulgarian and Romanian municipalities signed an agreement on the establishment of a Lower Danube Euro-region on November 15 in the Romanian city of Calarasi, opposite Silistra in North-eastern Bulgaria. The Euro-region will include the Romanian districts...
The Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Nikolay Vassilev represents Bulgaria at the regular annual meeting of the prime ministers of the countries within the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA). Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg could not attend the meetin...
The Cabinet approved the Convention on Crime in Cyberspace on November 15, 2001. The Minister of Justice was authorized to sign the Convention at the International Conference on November 21-23 in Budapest....
A contract between Bulgaria and UK international consultancy Crown Agents is to be concluded by the end of 2001, Milen Velchev, Bulgarian Finance Minister, announced. Under the contract the British Crown Agents are to provide consultancy to the Bulgarian...
“The Turkish foundation Turkiye Diyanet Vakfi donated USD 310,000 for the purchase of the Sofia building of the Chief Mufti’s Office,” Lyubomir Mladenov, Director of the Directorate for Religious Faiths with the Council of Ministers, announced....
Several projects, part of a program for the Roma integration in society are to be introduced, Nezhdet Mollov, Minister without Portfolio announced. The PHARE program will release EUR 200,000 for projects in the sphere of Roma education....
The Cabinet expects the revenue from the privatization of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) to total EUR 103 M. BTC privatization is to be completed by the summer of 2002....
“The Finance Ministry will conduct a check-up of filling stations in Bulgaria, “ Atanas Katsarchev, Deputy Finance Minister, announced on November 15, 2001. Among the first companies to be checked are oil-refinery LUKoil –Neftochim, petrol retailer Petrol...
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