Bulgaria has lost two spots to finish 55th on the competitiveness ranking of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), covering 59 key countries.
Bulgaria's sale body opened on Tuesday a tender for an investment intermediary to broker the country's 33-percent stake sale in Austria's EVN AG and Prague-based CEZ AS units.
The International Monetary Fund expects Bulgaria's economy to grow 3% at the end of this year as a global recovery boosts exports demand in the European Union.
Alpha Bank Bulgaria has launched an interactive online "Personal Loan Advisor", the first banking services tool of its kind in the country.
Irish company Island Renewable Energy may build a wind park in the Northern Bulgarian Suhindol municipality,Nikolay Nikolov, its executive director for Southeast Europe, has announced.
The shale gas resources in Bulgaria could greatly improve the country's energy independence and would create a new alternative for its gas needs, Bulgarian Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, declared.
A total of 1.2% of the EU citizens planning holiday have chosen Bulgaria as their main holiday destination, including domestic trips, according to the latest Eurobarometer study on the bloc's attitudes towards tourism.
Bulgaria's national resorts will be declared "settlements with particular status" with unified urban planning and management.
US Ambassador to Bulgaria James Warlick has invited oil companies from Texas to invest in Bulgaria's energy sector while the time for such investments is still right.
Rumen Petkov, Bulgaria's former Interior Minister, verbally assaulted former US Ambassador, John Beyrle.
Bulgaria's Cabinet saw Wednesday a reshuffle of key figures, which, while not completely unexpected because of various rumors running for months, came as a bid of a surprise.
Bulgaria's former Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov has claimed he resigned his post over "personal reasons" and was not ousted due to failed policies and lobbyist deals.
The Bulgarian Cabinet changes announced Wednesday, including the resignation of one minister, are based on "principled rules," Prime Minister Boyko Borisov declared.
Hristina Mitreva, head of Bulgaria's Social Security Institute (NOI), delivered a melodramatic farewell speech in front of a crowded hall, full of NOI employees, representatives of employees associations and labor unions.
A total of six people from the governing body of Bulgarian capital Sofia's Traffic Police Department was forced to retire Wednesday by country's Interior Ministry.
Bulgaria's Deputy Energy Minister Mariy Kosev, who resigned on Wednesday, said his removal was prompted by "a change in the political environment" and the appointment of "a more politicized candidate".
Left and right-wing opposition parties have made it clear they have not given up plans to demand a no-confidence vote against the government, despite the expected spate of cabinet reshuffles.
Bulgaria's Deputy Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski will be put in charge of the department in the wake of Minister Tsvetkov's surprising resignation, the government has decided.
Bulgaria's deputy minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Mariy Kossev has resigned, it emerged on Wednesday just minutes after the news about the resignation of Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov broke.
Even though Bulgaria's Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov has formally resigned his post over "personal reasons", there are indications that he was ousted because of failed policies and lobbyist deals.
Bulgaria's Deputy Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski will be put in charge of the department in the wake of Minister Tsvetkov's surprising resignation, according to reports.
Bulgaria's transport minister Alexander Tsvetkov has unexpectedly submitted his resignation, it emerged on Wednesday.
Alexander Tsvetkov, Bulgaria's Minister of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications in the Cabinet of the center-right GERB party, resigned his post on Wednesday, May 18, 2011.
The Members of the Bulgarian Parliament voted Wednesday to release from her duties the head of Bulgaria's Social Security Institute (NOI) Hristina Mitreva.
The leader of the Bulgarian far-right, nationalist Ataka party, Volen Siderov, has launched another attack on the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party.
Starting July 1, Deutsche Welle closes programs in Bulgarian, Greek, Croatian, Macedonian, Polish and Romanian, the media corporation said in a statement.
Bulgaria's government has decided to swell the number of university students to be admitted in the fall of 2011 by 5 309.
Renown Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize-laureate Orhan Pamuk received the Golden Age Award, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture's highest prize, on Wednesday.
Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk will make his first visit to Bulgaria on May 18-19 at the invitation of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.
Bulgarian Deyan Deyanov tried to kill a man with a rock just months before he beheaded British grandmother Jennifer Mills-Westley, according to reports in the British media.
Deyan Deyanov, the Bulgarian who beheaded 60-year old Jennifer Mills-Westley last Friday, had threatened to "massacre" the mother of his 3-year old daughter in his home country.
Two Bulgarians and one Canadian citizen who allegedly participated in an international credit card and ATM racket were detained Wednesday in Hong Kong.
A very serious crime – the murder of a 19-year-old girl had been solved after police had worked round-the-clock, Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, announced Wednesday.
The Regional Prosecutor's Office in Bulgaria' s Black Sea capital Varna entered in tough negotiations with coroners, who refused to do an autopsy in a murder case.
An immigrant-bashing politician and cable TV talk-show host in Bulgaria is accusing U.S. Ambassador James Warlick of threatening him when he demanded that the United States pay rent for the use of Bulgarian military bases.
It is unrealistic for Serbia to want restoration of its sovereignty over its former province Kosovo, according to Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.
The majority of the French people have shown firm support for the embattled IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn four days after his arrest on charges of attempted rape, a poll shows.
Following the murder of Osama bin Laden on May 02, the operational and military control of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group has been transferred to Egyptian Saif Al-Adel.
International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, charged with trying to rape a maid at a hotel where he was staying, has been placed on suicide watch at the Rikers prison in New York.
According to the current Constitution of Republic of Bulgaria, people who have dual citizenship and/or have not lived in Bulgaria in the last five years are banned from running for president.
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