BBC
Bulgarian Socialist leader Georgi Parvanov has defeated incumbent Petar Stoyanov in the country's presidential elections....
The Cabinet approved the bill for tourism according to which some licences will be eliminated and higher fees will be imposed for violations. A new agency for advertizing Bulgarian tourist services is to be set up....
Defense Minister Nikolay Svinarov left to a three-day visit to Brussels. On November 20, Svinarov will participate in a meeting of the foreign and defense ministers of the European Union member states and candidate countries....
Georgi Purvanov, 44, history graduate and leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, will be inaugurated as Bulgaria's new president next January. Thus, Bulgaria will have a Socialist as head of state for the first time since 1990....
The Guardian
Exit polls published after voting ended in Bulgaria's presidential election runoff yesterday showed the Socialist party leader, Georgi Parvanov, narrowly ahead of the incumbent, Petar Stoyanov....
The Central Electoral Commission announced the end of the election day at 8,30 a.m....
“The privatization of the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company (BTC) is an extremely difficult task. If ten years ago, the Telecom could be sold for USD 3 B, four years ago for USD 1,5 B, I do not even want to think for how much it will be sold this year,...
The Cabinet will announce its tax policy for its whole term, because people must know what taxes will be imposed on them, Kostadin Paskalev, Deputy Prime Minister said. The changes to taxes necessitated by Bulgaria’s future entry into the European Union a...
Before the meeting of the Cabinet, the Bulgarian ministers told reporters that they do not expect any problems in their joint work with the new Bulgarian President Parvanov. "Yesterday, people similarly to the June elections, voted in favor of change and...
Bulgarian Cabinet approved a national anti-corruption strategy. Its top priority is reducing the biased judgments of civil servants....
The Finance Ministry will move a schedule for gradual increasing of excise duties over the next six years to be approved by the Council of Ministers, Pari Daily wrote. The planned increase complies with the Bulgarian commitments in line with its preparati...
The current Bulgarian President Petur Stoyanov who was defeated at the second round of the presidential elections leads in the biggest Bulgarian towns: Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, Russe....
“Regulations for issuing building permits are to be eased,” Kostadin Paskalev, Deputy Prime Minster and Regional Development Minister announced. The amendments to the Ordinance on the construction sites use are to be prepared by the National Construction...
“The majority of the Bulgarians who voted from abroad have supported Petur Stoyanov,” the spokesman of the Central Electoral Commission Bisser Troyanov announced. 15, 929 Bulgarians voted abroad....
Illegally imported fertilizers and high propane-butane price make products of Bulgarian fertilizer industry noncompetitive. The decrease in the foreign demand and internal consumption worsen the situation, experts from the biggest Bulgarian fertilizer pla...