A spot check of construction work on the Lyulin highway established that less than one fifth of the workers claimed by the contractor to be working, were actually on-site.
There has been a dramatic decline in the amount of remittances from Bulgarians working abroad over the last four years due primarily to the start of the global downturn, according to a new report.
German retailer Tengelmann is in talks to sell its discount retail chains in Romania and Bulgaria to its rival Lidl, which is part of Germany's Schwarz retail group, according to reports.
US-based Advent International has unveiled plans to delist leading Bulgarian mineral water bottler Devin from the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) upon acquisition of at least 95% of the shares.
The former Bulgarian government of Sergey Stanishev never promised and never paid ransom for the release of 16 Bulgarian sailors kidnapped by Somali pirates.
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has made it clear that former PM and BSP leader Sergey Stanishev ordered a ransom to be paid for the release of 16 Bulgarian sailors who were kidnapped by Somali pirates last April.
Noah Gal-Gendler, Israeli Ambassador to Bulgaria since 2006, has welcomed the announcement on Thursday that PM Borisov is to visit Israel in a few days' time.
Joseph Daul MEP has announced that his European people’s party (EPP) insists on a scrupulous hearing for Commissioner candidates, due to start on January 11, but warns "it must not be a witch-hunt".
The unemployment rate in the euro area touched double digits in November for the first time since the introduction of the single currency more than a decade ago.
Spain prime minister has proposed setting binding economic objectives for the EU's member states under a 10-year plan to boost growth and competiveness.
A total of 3 500 members of Bulgaria's nationalist party VMRO have signed a petition for holding a new Congress in order to remove the current leader Krasimir Karakachanov.
The Budget and Finance Committee of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has ruled that magistrates and court staff under disciplinary sanctions, or those with outstanding legal penalties, should not be eligible for bonus payments.
Former Deputy Chair of the ethnic Turkish DPS party, Osman Oktay, has said that DPS leader, Ahmed Dogan, is preparing social protests to destabilize Bulgaria.
The emblematic until recently date September 9, marking Bulgaria's anti-fascist uprising in 1944, has been named the most important event in the country for the past century.
Bulgaria Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, has stated that the center-right GERB government is looking at the possibility of dispensing with their original interface proposal to monitor internet traffic and mobile phone calls.
Bulgaria's government has provided a total of BGN 3,8 M for the compensations of 500 members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences who have been made redundant.
Bulgarian higher education institutions are going to introduce three-year Bachelor's degrees over the next five years.
The testimony of the leader of a high profiled kidnappers' gang, which was busted at the end of last year, has led to the discovery of the two dead bodies near the capital Sofia on Friday.
Sofia District Court released on bail Friday the former owner of the Burgas-based football club "Chernomorets", Ivaylo Drazhev.
One more dead body was discovered Friday by the police in the outskirts of the Bulgarian capital Sofia.
The body of kidnapped car thief Yulian Levterov aka Kunfuto has been discovered close to Sofia.
Controversial Bulgarian journalist Bobi Tsankov, who was murdered on January 5, 2010, in downtown Sofia, had 12 suspended sentences that had come into force.
Mancho Panyukov, the man who killed his two sons and wife in the village of Osikovo last February is allegedly psychologically healthy, according to expert witnesses at the trial against him that started Friday.
Two attempts to smuggle cigarettes across the Serbia-Bulgaria border were discovered by customs officers at the Kalotina border checkpoint on Thursday.
A powerful blast woke up the 'Pogrebite' neighborhood of Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna early Friday as a car was allegedly blown up.
Bulgaria police have searched the home of Mariyana Marinova, the sister of the alleged crime bosses Nikolay and Krasimir Marinov, in connection with the investigation into the murder of controversial journalist Bobi Tsankov.
Bulgarian model Georgi Dochev, who discovered the dead body of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately in October 2009 has revealed that not everything printed in a recent UK press interview with him is true.
The economic downturn has made it harder to speak sensibly of a region called “eastern Europe”.
Some commissioners-designate are more stressed than others ahead of their hearings in the European Parliament, which start next week, sources told EurActiv.
Portugal's parliament has passed a law to legalise same-sex marriage, but rejected proposals to allow homosexual couples to adopt.
A report by Access Info Europe*, the human rights organization, has exposed major variations and problems in terms of European citizens’ access to information from their countries' police forces.
Snow and gale-force winds are expected to cause transport chaos in Germany as a bitter cold snap continues to wreak havoc across Europe, the BBC reported.
Herman Van Rompuy, the newly elected EC President, has found himself the center of controversy after addressing his first official speech to a party gathering of Bavarian conservatives.
US President Barack Obama has ordered a raft of measures to address "systemic" intelligence failings over the bid to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.
On January 14th , 2010 there will be a massive protest around the Parliament building in Sofia under the slogan "Bulgaria is not Big Brother, 2010 is not 1984".
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