The company "BG Privateinvest" is the new owner of the two of the leading Bulgarian dailies "Trud" (Labor), "24 Chasa" (24 Hours), and the weekly "168 Chasa" (168 Hours), "Trud" writes Tuesday afternoon.
The introduction of electric cars in Bulgaria will be encouraged through creating a network of charging stations, a memorandum states.
The international passenger and cargo trains traveling between Bulgaria and Greece will be canceled starting Tuesday until midnight on December 16th, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry announces.
The inter-ministerial committee on rehabilitation and support to the Bulgarian Council of Ministers has approved the expenses for the repair works of the collapsed E-79 road connecting Bulgaria with Greece.
The international cigarette maker "Marlboro" will introduce on the Bulgarian market cigarette boxes with 10 pieces each, instead of the common 20.
Romanian companies are moving in droves to Bulgaria attracted by lower taxes, which the government has maintained at pre-recession levels, Sofia finance minister has said.
Bulgaria, struggling to boost public revenues, has surprisingly abandoned plans to sell its minority stake in a Bulgarian ice-cream making unit of Nestle SA.
The privatization tender, through which the state will seek to boost public revenues by some BGN 80 M, will take place 14-27 December on the Sofia stock exchange.
Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov, signed Tuesday the decree to officially publish the 2011 State budget, the presidential press office announced.
Two units of Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali SpA have acquired minority stakes in Bulgarian lender Corporate Commercial Bank AD, the bank announced.
Bulgaria is interested in opting in the European permanent crisis resolution mechanism and believes it should not be confined to the euro area, the finance minister has said.
Bulgaria's new Renewable Energy source act will be ready in two weeks, the country's Energy Minister has stated.
Bulgaria's economy minister will launch officially on Tuesday the construction works of a EUR 150 M, 45-megawatt solar park in central Bulgaria, near the city of Veliko Tarnovo.
Fewer Bulgarians will travel abroad during the Christmas and New Year's holidays this year and they will prefer the country's opportunities for rural and mountain tourism, according to Bulgarian tour operators.
Bulgaria's ruling party has opposed proposals for a delay in the introduction of a flat 9% value-added tax (VAT) in the tourism sector, scheduled for April 1 next year.
Several Bulgarian NGOs demand that Bulgaria's centrist GERB government should sack all Bulgarian diplomats, who turned out to be former Communist State Security agents.
Six former communist and current EU nations have demanded that Brussels push for a ban on the denial of the crimes of their region's old regimes, stating the victims had been forgotten by western countries.
Zdravko Zdraveski, a former leader of the Macedonian 'Tigers' and 'Lions' special forces , has spoken to the Bulgarian '24 chasa' daily, stating that he and his family have been constantly terrorized by the authorities in FYROM for declaring themselve
Serbia has expressed interest towards participating in the American-Bulgarian military trainings that take place on Bulgaria territory.
Even though the level of internet access in Bulgaria doubled for the period 2006-2010, the country is still among the countries with the lowest share, according to Eurostat data on Internet access and use in 2010.
Bulgaria's entry in the Schengen zone will be one of the priorities of the Hungary's Presidency of the European Union, Hungarian Interior Minister, Shandor Pinter stated.
About 21% of the Bulgarian population is at risk of poverty, an Eurostat publication "Income and living conditions in the Europe" for 2008 showed.
High-level employees of Bulgaria's Road Agency have received bonuses estimated at a total of BGN 300 000 per month, according to the Bulgarian rightists.
Bulgaria's Central Election Commission (CEK) now has the authority to register parties to take part in the elections in case it finds their leadership failed to meet more than two times, despite the established rules and schedule.
Bulgarian scientists, university professors, students and people working in the culture sector have gathered to stage yet another combined protest demanding the implementation of European priorities and policies in education, science, healthcare and cultu
Forty percent of Bulgarians are against closing the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, according to a poll conducted by the research agency Sova Harris.
In an open letter to the Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov, Russian Nobel Prize-winning physicist Zhores Alferov has backed his Bulgarian colleagues in their protest against the government's plans to reform the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Bulgaria's special panel, investigating the communist-era police files, known as the Files' Commission, announced Tuesday that nearly 190 Bulgarian Ambassadors and Consuls have been collaborators and agents of the former Communist State Security.
Bulgarian filmmakers are staging yet another protest rally Tuesday they label as "happening" and dedicate to their "favorite" Culture Minister, Vezhi Rashidov, whose birthday is December 14.
The main hospital in Sofia 'Pirogov' has received 80 people with snow-related injuries so far on Tuesday after due to the icy conditions in the Bulgarian capital.
Bulgaria's cabinet will slate BGN 245 000 by the end of the year for the Rozhen observatory in the Rhodope Mountains, Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, announced Tuesday.
French political scientist and educator, Nad?ge Ragaru, has published a book on the Bulgarian transition period after the communist regime.
Bulgarian pharmacies will stop selling medicines that are reimbursed by the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) until the end of December.
Richard C. Holbrooke, the diplomat who spearheaded the end of the Bosnian war and most recently served as the Obama administration's point man in the volatile Afghan-Pakistani war zone, has died, officials said.
Valentin Dimitrof the former Head of Sofia's heating utility, has been sentenced for just 3 instead of 10 years on embezzlement charges.
From The EU Observer
Bulgaria plans to apply for the single currency entry mechanism, ERM II, late next year, the country's finance minister Simeon Djankov has confirmed.
Emma, a 1970 graduate of Binghamton Central High School, recently spent 10 days in Bulgaria, teaching master classes at a conservatory in Burgas and then the National Ballet of Bulgaria in the capital, Sofia.
Two Bulgarian youngsters discuss career opportunities.
The British court granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with regard to the sex-crimes investigation against him.
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won the extremely close second confidence vote, scheduled to determine if he should retain his position as leader of the government.
Katia Zatuliveter, the 25-year-old Russian accused of spying in the House of Commons, has used fake Bulgarian identity documents, according to media reports.
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won the first of two confidence votes to determine if he should retain his position as leader of the government.
Julian Assange has criticised Visa, MasterCard and PayPal for blocking donations to WikiLeaks, slamming the companies as "instruments of US foreign policy".
A trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia held in Sofia over the past weekend has spurred much negative reactions in the Republic of Macedonia.
Interview of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) with EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier
UN Happiness Report: Bulgaria's Astonishing Leap in Rankings
Bulgaria: 3 Regions With Lowest Life Expectancy - EU Report 2022
