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ARCHIVE - 17 SEPTEMBER 2009
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Business

Bulgaria MPs Approve Symbolic EUR 1 as Capital for Starting Business
Bulgaria Watchdog Slaps Fine on Hit Supermarket
Bulgaria Kamenitza Owner AB InBev Makes Debut on NYSE
Bulgaria Technology Exhibition Canceled over Financial Crisis

Finance

Inflation, Current Account Deficit, Corruption Said to Hamper Bulgaria en Route to Euro

Energy

Russia's Energy Minister Comes to Bulgaria with N-Plant Offer

Industry

Bulgaria Sofia to Build Tram, Subway Car Factory

Properties

Bulgaria Real Estate Market Registers August Revival

Diplomacy

UK Ambassador to Bulgaria: Michael Shields' Pardon is Final

Defense

Bulgaria, US Rangers Conduct Joint Drill at Novo Selo Ground

Bulgaria in EU

Bulgaria Cabinet Vows Support for Serbia EU Membership
Bulgaria PM Joins EU Leaders as They Take Aim at Huge Bonuses for Bankers

Domestic

Bulgaria MPs to Be Fined BGN 200 for Voting Frauds
Bulgaria Government Presents 200 Files with Corruption Cases
Bulgaria Court Head: Judicial System Appointments Must Stop

Elections 2009

Ruling GERB Party to Endorse Education Minister as Mayor of Sofia

Society

Bulgaria Police Arrests Former PM's Ex Girlfriend for Begging
Bulgaria's Capital Celebrates St. Sofia Day

Environment

Bulgaria's Plovdiv Takes Sofia's Waste with Provision

Sports

Bulgaria Probe Clears State Lottery

Crime

Bulgaria Ex Deputy FinMin Amnesia Hampers Notorious Road Trial
Bulgaria Court Releases Weapon Holding Director
Bulgaria Road Controversy Goes to Court Again

Views on BG

Scottish Man's Wife Stranded in Bulgaria
BBC: Bulgarian Lottery Repeat Probed

World

Australia Man Charged with Rape, Incest of Own Daughter
Six Italian Solders Killed in Afghanistan Bomb Attack
Skype Founders Sue eBay
Moldova Court Appoint Parliament Speaker as Acting President
US to Shelve Nuclear-Missile Shield
First Rocky Planet Found outside Solar System
Karzai Defends Vote "Integrity"
France to Close Migrant "Jungle"

Business

Bulgaria MPs Approve Symbolic EUR 1 as Capital for Starting Business

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The required capital to register a limited responsibility company was lowered to the symbolic BGN 2 or EUR 1 by the Bulgarian Parliament....

Bulgaria Watchdog Slaps Fine on Hit Supermarket

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Bulgaria's anti-monopoly commission has imposed a fine of BGN 21,000 on HIT supermarket for not cooperating in its probe into six chains to see if they had pressured suppliers to lower prices....

Bulgaria Kamenitza Owner AB InBev Makes Debut on NYSE

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer, which owns two units in Bulgaria, commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange....

Bulgaria Technology Exhibition Canceled over Financial Crisis

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Bulgaria's biggest exhibition for computers, software, Internet, communications, nets and whole IT decisions, Bait Expo 2009, has been canceled over the global financial crisis....

Finance

Inflation, Current Account Deficit, Corruption Said to Hamper Bulgaria en Route to Euro

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Bulgaria has set 2013, when the term of the new center-right government expires, as the target date for adopting the euro, the Czech daily newspaper Lidove noviny reported, citing the country's Finance Minister Simeon Djankov....

Energy

Russia's Energy Minister Comes to Bulgaria with N-Plant Offer

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Russia's Energy Minister, Sergei Shmatko, is expected to arrive on Thursday in Bulgaria with an offer for the planned Belene nuclear power plant as the country is fishing for investors for its majority stake....

Industry

Properties

Bulgaria Real Estate Market Registers August Revival

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Bulgaria's property market has registered an August increase of 2% to 3%, the Chair of the National Real Estate Association, Lachezar Iskrov reported....

Diplomacy

UK Ambassador to Bulgaria: Michael Shields' Pardon is Final

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The British Ambassador to Bulgaria, Steve Williams, confirmed he had supplied Bulgarian authorities with new evidence about Michael Shields' innocence....

Defense

Bulgaria, US Rangers Conduct Joint Drill at Novo Selo Ground

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Bulgarian and US soldiers conducted Thursday a joint drill of fighting the enemy in an urban setting at the Novo Selo training ground....

Bulgaria in EU

Bulgaria Cabinet Vows Support for Serbia EU Membership

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The Bulgarian cabinet will do everything within its powers to make Serbia's European Union membership possible, Minister without Portfolio, Bozhidar Dimitrov declared....

Bulgaria PM Joins EU Leaders as They Take Aim at Huge Bonuses for Bankers

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov goes to Brussels on Thursday to attend an informal meeting of the EU leaders in preparation of the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh on September 24-25....

Domestic

Bulgaria MPs to Be Fined BGN 200 for Voting Frauds

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The leader of the rightist Blue Coalition, Ivan Kostov, will propose MPs whose card is used for voting without their presence in the parliament to be fined with BGN 200....

Bulgaria Government Presents 200 Files with Corruption Cases

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The Bulgarian Government has presented to the Prosecution in the last fifty days over 200 files with alleged corruption cases....

Bulgaria Court Head: Judicial System Appointments Must Stop

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The chair of the Supreme Administrative Court, Konstantin Penchev, has pronounced himself to be against recent appointments of high level judicial system personnel....

Elections 2009

Ruling GERB Party to Endorse Education Minister as Mayor of Sofia

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Bulgaria's Education Minister, Iordanka Fandakova, is the unchallenged favorite of the ruling GERB party for the upcoming mayoral elections in Sofia....

Society

Bulgaria Police Arrests Former PM's Ex Girlfriend for Begging

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The police in Sofia arrested Thursday top journalist, Elena Yoncheva, for begging on a downtown street over mistaken identity....

Bulgaria's Capital Celebrates St. Sofia Day

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Bulgaria's capital celebrates Thursday St Sofia Day - the date when the Orthodox world pays homage to the Holy Martyrs Sofia and her three daughters Faith, Hope and Love....

Environment

Bulgaria's Plovdiv Takes Sofia's Waste with Provision

September 17, 2009, Thursday
A total of 100,000 tons of garbage collected from the capital Sofia will be deposited at a landfill near the city of Plovdiv, per the Thursday approval by the municipal councilors....

Sports

Bulgaria Probe Clears State Lottery

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The investigation of the Bulgarian State Lottery involving the same six numbers being drawn in two consecutive rounds did not reveal any violations....

Crime

Bulgaria Ex Deputy FinMin Amnesia Hampers Notorious Road Trial

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Bulgaria's former Deputy Finance Minister, Dimitar Ivanovski, who appeared as witness in the trial of the former Head of the National Road Infrastructure Fund, failed to offer any relevant insight Thursday....

Bulgaria Court Releases Weapon Holding Director

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The Sofia Appellate court has released Thursday Zhechko Petrov, the CEO of the Bulgarian Weapons Holding, TEREM, on his own recognizance....

Bulgaria Road Controversy Goes to Court Again

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The former head of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund, who is being tried for corruption, will be expected to turn up at Sofia City Court on Thursday....

Views on BG

Scottish Man's Wife Stranded in Bulgaria

September 17, 2009, Thursday
A dream life in the sun turned into a nightmare for a former Gretna couple....

BBC: Bulgarian Lottery Repeat Probed

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The Bulgarian authorities have ordered an investigation after the same six numbers were drawn in two consecutive rounds of the national lottery....

World

Australia Man Charged with Rape, Incest of Own Daughter

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Australian police have charged man, in his 60s, with rape and incest allegedly committed against his daughter over a period of 30 years....

Six Italian Solders Killed in Afghanistan Bomb Attack

September 17, 2009, Thursday
At least six Italian soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack on a military convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul,...

Skype Founders Sue eBay

September 17, 2009, Thursday
A company owned by the founders of Skype filed a copyright suit against eBay Inc. and a group of investors that plan to buy Skype from eBay, a move that could complicate the recent USD 2 B deal, the Wall Street Journal reported....

US to Shelve Nuclear-Missile Shield

September 17, 2009, Thursday
The United States has suspended Bush-administration plans for a missile defense shield in Poland, the Polish Ministry of Defense said....

First Rocky Planet Found outside Solar System

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Scientists have discovered the first confirmed Earthlike planet outside our solar system, they announced Wednesday....

Karzai Defends Vote "Integrity"

September 17, 2009, Thursday
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he believes in the integrity of last month's election process despite allegations of vote-rigging....

France to Close Migrant "Jungle"

September 17, 2009, Thursday
France has said it intends to close the camp in Calais known as "the jungle", where migrants gather to try to reach the UK, BBC reported....
Bulgaria Court Keeps Nationalist Councilor Yuriy Galev under House Arrest

Borisov: UK Fund to Invest BGN 100 M in Electric Car Plant in Bulgaria

A British investment fund is going to set up an electric car factory in Bulgaria’s Stara Zagora, announced Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov, on an official visit to the UK.
Bulgaria Court Keeps Nationalist Councilor Yuriy Galev under House Arrest

Bulgaria Court Keeps Nationalist Councilor Yuriy Galev under House Arrest

Sofia Regional Court has ruled that Yuriy Galev, a nationalist municipal councilor in the Bulgarian town of Samokov, and his accomplices, are to remain under house arrest. His son will be placed under direct police supervision.

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