Bulgaria Registers 0,5% Inflation in December 2009
Bulgaria's had 0,5% inflation in December 2009, according to latest data provided by the National Statistical Institute.
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Bulgaria's had 0,5% inflation in December 2009, according to latest data provided by the National Statistical Institute.
Representatives of eleven countries participated Thursday in an energy forum in the Georgian port of Batumi which declared support for the EU-sponsored "Southern Gas Corridor".
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament reacted strongly Thursday to attacks by Bulgaria's PM, Boyko Borisov, in connection with the troubled hearing of the Bulgarian Commissioner-designate Rumiana Jeleva.
News website New Europe (www.neurope.eu) has published Thursday English translations of the financial documentation of Bulgarian EU Commissioner-Designate Rumiana Jeleva, claiming that they clear her of conflict of interest allegations.
The European Parliament has submitted Thursday a letter to the EC President Jose Manuel Barroso asking for his position on the confirmation of Bulgarian Commissioner-Designate Rumiana Jeleva.
Bulgaria has once again been found guilty by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, this time for police violence against the Roma minority, the foundation 'Romani Baht' reported.
Bulgaria's National Movement for Stability and Prosperity, known as the party of former Tsar Simeon Saxe-Coburg, has rejected allegations it had sabotaged the EP hearing of EU Commissioner-Designate Rumiana Jeleva.
The PASD EP leader, Martin Schulz, had informed the EC President, Jose Manuel Barroso, that the Bulgarian Commissioner-designate Rumiana Jeleva is not suitable for the post.
The awaiting of a ruling of the legal services of the EU on whether the Bulgarian EP Commissioner Rumiana Jeleva was in conflict of interests is actually providing time for heated negotiations in Brussels over her confirmation.
The final decision on whether the Development Committee of the EP is going to support the confirmation of the Bulgarian EU Commissioner-Designate Rumiana Jeleva is going to be made on Monday, January 18, 2010.
Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister, Marin Raykov, has stated that the center-right governing GERB party have known about the general attack against European Commissioner-Designate Rumiana Jeleva since November 2009.
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has stated that it is not "tragic" if Rumiana Jeleva is not endorsed as Bulgaria's new European Commissioner.
President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso is expected Thursday to announce his position on the issue of alleged conflict of interests of Bulgarian Commissioner-Designate Rumiana Jeleva.
Bulgaria's conservative Order, Law and Justice (RZS) party gave an ultimatum to Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, to release 11 ministers from the GERB cabinet by January 26.
Members of the Bulgarian Parliament from the opposition Socialist Party and the ethnic Turkish DPS have filed a suit with the Constitutional Court over the 2010 State Budget Act.
Over 300 people gathered outside the Bulgaria Parliament Thursday to protest against the center-right GERB government's proposed changes to the Electronic Communications Act.
Bulgaria's National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency has come up with a plan for a unified university accreditation system.
All Roma groups in Bulgaria celebrate Thursday the Roma New Year also known as Vassilitsa, the Day of Vassil (Basil) or Bango Vassili (the Lame Basil)The celebrations have their origins in several Roma legends.
Captain of Bulgarian national team and striker of Manchester United, Dimitar Berbatov, has been voted Bulgaria's "Footballer of 2009.
The Sofia Appellate Court released Thursday alleged top criminal boss Krasimir Marinov aka the Big Marguin on his own recognizance.
Bulgaria's police are preparing a new special operation codenamed "The Impudent-3" in order to deal with the remains of a high-profile kidnappers' gang.
Bulgaria Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, has stated that the six investigated officials from the State Fund 'Agriculture' are under suspicion of working for an organized criminal group.
Krasimir Marinov, aka "The Big Marguin", who is charged with plotting the murder of controversial Bulgarian journalist Bobi Tsankov, has declared he never had anything to do with the victim.
Bulgaria Prosecutors have brought a new charge against Krasimir Marinov aka the Big Marguin for organizing a criminal group to deal with the distribution of drugs.
Bulgarian Police re-arrested alleged Sofia mafia boss Stefan Bonev aka Sako late Wednesday night, local media has reported.
Bulgaria Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev has stated that that those arrested from the major kidnapping gang in two successful special operations codenamed "The Impudent" will be charged.
Opposition to Rumiana Jeleva, the European Commissioner-designate for humanitarian aid and crisis response, appeared to harden on Thursday after the leader of the parliament’s Socialist group blasted her as “incompetent” and unfit to assume her portfolio.
From New Europe
The Parliament's centre-right group mounted an attack on one of the left's commissioner candidates on Wednesday, while defending their own contested nominee from Bulgaria.
After continuing to endorse Jeleva's candidacy pursuant to the European Commission Parliamentary hearings where Commissioner-designate Rumiana Jeleva took a political beating on Tuesday, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has now taken a step back sa
Put in a difficult position by Rumiana Jeleva's weak performance at her parliamentary hearing earlier this week, the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) is threatening to counter-attack by asking for a socialist head to roll.
According to Moody’ s ‘Misery Index,’ which adds projections of fiscal deficits to unemployment numbers as a measure of economic gloom, the least miserable of the 23 states ranked will be (drum roll)… Bulgaria.
"The former bodyguard of the former Bulgarian Communist Dictator does not have any right to attack us in such manner.
The number the fatalities of the 7 point magnitude on the Richter scale earthquake that hit Haiti Tuesday can be anywhere between 45 000 and 50 000, a Red Cross representative, cited by the Bulgarian news agency BGNES, reports.
Israel has apologised to Turkey in an effort to defuse a row over the treatment of its envoy in Tel Aviv.
Thousands of Haitians are spending a second night in the open after the country's catastrophic earthquake which may have killed tens of thousands.
It is not clear yet whether the name of Bulgaria's next European Commissioner will be Rumiana Zheleva.
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