The privatization tender, through which Bulgaria sought to boost public revenues by some BGN 80 M, has managed to sell state stakes in only eight companies on Sofia stock exchange.
Bulgaria registered a budget deficit of only 2.65% in the first eleven months of 2010, which is far below the state budget forecast of 4.8% for the entire 2010.
Bulgaria's Cabinet has decided to place units 1 and 2 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant under the management of State Company "Radioactive Waste".
Russia's state power trader Inter RAO is in talks with E.ON AG, RWE AG and Enel SpA on possible asset swaps or acquisitions in Europe as the company seeks to expand abroad, a company official said.
The bad weather in Bulgaria has suspended the demolition of illegally constructed buildings along the southern part of the Black Sea coast, authorities announced.
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's new President, who is of Bulgarian origin, broke the protocol and welcomed the Bulgarian state delegation two days before her formal presidential inauguration.
Two prominent namesakes – Maxim Behar from Bulgaria and Maxim Behar from Brazil – are going to present Brazil's new President, Bulgaria-descended Dilma Rousseff, with the bestseller "111 Rules on Facebook" at her inauguration.
Dilma Rousseff has confirmed she will keep her promise to visit her father's homeland Bulgaria by the end of 2011, according to reports.
Bulgaria's foreign ministry has threatened to strip of diplomatic status the country's honorary consul in the Turkish town of Bursa following his arrest over alleged illegal trade in historical artefacts.
Bulgaria's prime minister, who is in Brazil to attend the inauguration of Dilma Rousseff as the country's new president on Saturday, will be the first to meet her two days earlier, local media reported.
As Estonia is about to become the 17th Euro Area member on January 1, 2011, anti-euro protesters have rallied in downtown Tallinn.
Bulgaria has failed the final test of technical readiness for accession to the Schengen Area, according to a report of the Romanian media Ziare.
Two EU standards bodies have delivered standards for a universal micro USB phone charger, which will let Europeans use one charger for multiple phones, an idea, which came through as a Bulgarian patent.
A senior agent of the Bulgarian State National Security Agency DANS has resigned after he was caught leaking classified information, according to reports.
Bulgarian sky gazers will be treated to the rare spectacle of a partial eclipse of the sun, which will be visible from the territory of the country on January 4, 2011.
A French model who posed nude for an anti-anorexia campaign while suffering from the illness herself has died at the age of 28, her colleagues confirm.
Hundreds of mourners are expected to gather on Thursday at Sofia cemetery to pay their last respects to Vili Kavaldzhiev, one of the legends in Bulgaria's rock music and a fervent supporter of the anti-communist movement.
Unconfirmed rumors in Bulgaria, which have been disproved almost immediately, say that Manchester United's star striker is applying for UK citizenship.
Bulgaria's honorary consul in the Turkish town of Bursa has been arrested on suspicions of involvement in a channel for illegal trade in historical artefacts, local media reported, citing the police.
Bro. Scott and Sandy Chadwick of Martin recently made the decision to leave the pulpit at New Home Baptist Church and set up household in the country of Bulgaria.
"What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? A key.
"We are very proud – Gergana and I – that this idea, which started as a joke – turned into a very solid Bulgarian contribution to the European technological process.
Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki expects new talks on his country's so called "name dispute" with Greece in the first weeks of 2011.
A strong bomb blast shook one of the main courthouse buildings in central Athens on Thursday morning, Greek police said. No casualties were reported.
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