ARCHIVE - 17 December 2010
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Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency has opened the Daskalovo road junction, which is expected to unclog the road traffic in all of Western Bulgaria, including the roads to Macedonia and Greece.
Business | December 17, 2010, Friday // 19:36
The supermarket chain Billa is opening Saturday its 20th store in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, the company announced.
Business | December 17, 2010, Friday // 17:10
Hundreds of passengers are stranded at the airport of Bulgaria's capital Sofia Friday, due to inclement weather, Darik radio reports.
Business | December 17, 2010, Friday // 14:24
The Bulgarian Trakiya highway's permit application form is to be approved by the end of 2010, according to Deputy Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski.
Business | December 17, 2010, Friday // 13:33
The Business for Sale supplement of Financial Times has listed 140 Bulgarian businesses, offered for sale.
Business | December 17, 2010, Friday // 12:26
Experts from the Bulgarian Road Infrastructure Agency will test on Friday the readiness of the rehabilitated Daskalovo road junction, which is part of the Lyulin Highway near Sofia.
Business | December 17, 2010, Friday // 08:47
The Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB) and the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Exim Bank) has signed a permanent cooperation agreement.
Bulgaria's long- and short- term foreign and local currency credit ratings has been affirmed as 'BBB/A-3' by the credit agency Standard&Poor's
The Bulgarian private natural gas supplier Overgas is disputing a tender to award exploration rights for a Bulgarian plot to Park Place Energy Corp, a North American oil and gas exploration company.
The Russian Federal Tourist Agency "Rostourism" released Friday data showing Bulgaria ranks third among the destinations that are risky for Russian holidaymakers.
Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, declared Friday the full responsibility for sending collaborators and agents of the former Communist State security as diplomats abroad belongs to the previous cabinet and to President, Georgi Parvanov.
Georgi Mihov,Bulgaria's consul-general in the Russian city of St Petersburg has resigned a as a result of the recent diplomatic scandal in Bulgaria, exposing some 50% of the country's diplomats in missions abroad as former agents of the Communist State Se
Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has expressed his opinion that people who have collaborated with the former State Security should not represent the country abroad and be involved in foreign policy.
The member of the New York City Council, Daniel Holloran, had met US Ambassador to Sofia, James Warlick, in person and had asked him to resign from the post.
After the end of the EU Council summit in Brussels, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has declared Bulgaria's readiness to take part in any efforts to rescue euro zone states facing debt crises.
The Bulgarian government will spend a total of BGN 56 M (about EUR 28 M) state budget money on improving the country's border control as a part of Bulgaria's bid to join Schengen agreement.
The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), an independent EU body responsible for the macro-prudential oversight of the financial system within the Union, was established Thursday
Montenegro has formally been given the status of an EU candidate country at the EU Council summit in Brussels.
The European Commission has frozen over BGN 10 M from the "Lifelong Learning" program for student and professional exchange.
The European People's Party is expecting all Bulgarian diplomats, connected to the former secret services, to resign from their positions, the EPP Secretary General Antonio Lopez-Isturiz said for the Bulgarian National Radio.
EU leaders have agreed on setting up a permanent mechanism to rescue EU member states from debt crises that threaten the 16-nation eurozone, the BBC informed.
A Round Table for Bulgaria's joining the Schengen zone during the Hungarian EU Presidency will be organized Friday in Sofia.
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Mladenov has accused President Parvanov of giving political cover to the Bulgarian diplomats who were revealed to have worked for the State Security (DS) service of the former communist regime.
The presence of collaborators and agents of the former Communist State Security in Bulgaria's diplomatic missions around the world is not a problem for the country, Bulgarian President, Georgi Parvanov, declared.
Bulgaria's right-wing Blue Coalition asked Friday all ministers to make bonuses paid to employees public and show what criteria was used to select those employees.
Bulgaria's ruling party GERB has to clean the country from the agents of the former State Security because they are like an anchor to the past, the leader of the right-wing Democrats for Strong Bulgaria party, Ivan Kostov, said.
The Center for Urban Mobility of the Bulgarian capital Sofia is launching a new public bus line to connect the Sofia International Airport with the operational metro line.
Society | December 17, 2010, Friday // 18:33
The editorial team of Eurochicago.com, with the support of the Bulgarian Embassy in Washington DC and the Consulate offices in NYC and LA, launched the contest "Bulgarian Event of the Year in the US."
Society | December 17, 2010, Friday // 15:44
Four districts in Eastern Bulgaria have declared a "Code Orange" situation amidst heavy snowfall and strong winds continuing for a second day in a row.
Heavy snow and strong wind caused the closing of the Sofia International Airport and the port in the Black Sea city of Varna, the Bulgarian News Agency has announced.
The Bulgarian parliament has decided to divide the Ph.D. degree to Dr. and Doctor of Science, with the latter enjoying an advantage in taking up academic posts.
The entire country is now ready for the Food Agency to begin functioning in Bulgaria, Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, informed Friday.
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Sports | December 17, 2010, Friday // 12:29
Bulgaria's Levski Sofia secured a prestigious, albeit consolatory victory in the Europa League Thursday against the strong team of Sporting Lisdbon, thus achieving some revenge for the humiliating 0-5 defeat against the same squad in October.
Sports | December 17, 2010, Friday // 11:20
The Italian citizen Romeo Liberati, who has been accused for pimping and human trafficking, has agreed before the court in the Bulgarian town of Dobrich to be handed over to the French judicial authorities.
Crime | December 17, 2010, Friday // 15:09
Sofia's Court of Appeal will launch Friday the much awaited trial against the notorious Bulgarian alleged crime bosses, Krasimir Marinov and Nikolay Marinov, aka The Marguin Brothers, on charges of ordering three murders.
Crime | December 17, 2010, Friday // 11:49
A US-born Bulgarian 8-year-old boy has performed together with popular Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, Bulgarian daily "Trud" has reported.
Lifestyle | December 17, 2010, Friday // 13:30
The Bulgarian Tsveta Kaleynska is leading the audience vote hours before the end of the contest "Miss Diaspora Models International 2010" in the United States, Eurochicago.
Lifestyle | December 17, 2010, Friday // 11:40
Eastern Europe is back from the economic brink.
Public financing of Bulgarian filmmaking is in crisis after the parliament amended the formula for production support.Changes to the Film Industry Act earlier this month have freed the government from keeping funding at last year's level.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton together with other foreign dignitaries will attend the inauguration of the new President of Brazil, the Bulgaria-descended Dilma Rousseff.
World | December 17, 2010, Friday // 20:55
The Essalam mosque, which is the largest in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Western Europe, has been inaugurated in Rotterdam.
World | December 17, 2010, Friday // 20:03
Japanese police have arrested a man who injured at least 13 people after a knife attack outside a train station, the BBC informed.
World | December 17, 2010, Friday // 11:09
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