Since the beginning of 2012, Bulgaria has awarded five "Class A" investor certificates for investments of over EUR 225 M, compared to three first-class investor certificates for the entire 2011, according to Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev.
Bulgaria's Gross Domestic Product, GDP, was BGN 15.7 M or EUR 8.8 M in the first quarter of 2012 at current prices.
Bulgaria's corruption issues are not to be overestimated, according to Martin Kreutner, Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Anti-Corruption Academy.
Ratings agency Moody's has cut the credit ratings of three banks in Austria, citing the risk of further shocks as the euro zone debt crisis continues to roil global markets and vulnerability to Eastern Europe. .
Bulgaria's government has selected BNP Paribas, HSBC and Raiffeisen as mediators for the eurobond issue that the country plans to float this year.
State-owned gas supplier Bulgargaz needs to collect overdue payments amounting to over BGN 200 M from four heating utilities and three or four industrial companies, according to Bulgargaz CEO Dimitar Gogov.
Shale gas development in central and eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, is "inevitable" in the next decade even though the country has imposed a moratorium under public pressure, says a KPMG report.
Bulgaria's Food Safety Agency has proposed all-inclusive offers to be only available in four- and five-star hotels.
An employee of Bulgaria's Defense Ministry has been on an expensive and exotic vacation, paid for the Bereta Trading company, owner of Bulgaria's blasted ammunition depot.
A total of five safety probes have been conducted at the Bereta Trading company, owner of Bulgaria's blasted ammunition depot, according to the Interior Ministry.
A second, smaller unmanned aircraft has been sent to probe the region in which a series of explosions took place at an ammunition depot in Southeastern Bulgaria.
A small unmanned aircraft that was supposed to probe the region in which a Bulgarian ammunition depot exploded on Tuesday, has crashed due to strong winds, Defense Minister Anyu Angelov has said.
A human error has been the most likely reason for the series of blasts that occurred in a Bulgarian ammunition depot on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a Defense Ministry official.
The two EU newcomers, Bulgaria and Romania, are experiencing serious problems with the fight against corruption and continue to raise the biggest concerns in connection with this problem, according to a newly published report of Transparency International
In 2010, Bulgaria had the lowest average gross annual earnings of full-time employees in enterprises employing ten employees (EUR 4 396) among all 27 European Union Member States.
Former EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva has denied any involvement in the scandal involving the three-way coalition government and a payment of EUR 1.
Bulgaria's Interior Ministry spent nearly half of the money earmarked for special surveillance devices in 2012 by end-March, according to a report for the institution's expenses for the first quarter of the year.
Bulgarian Members of the Parliament rejected Wednesday a proposal to annul the January 2012 official declaration, condemning the Communist's regime attempt to forcefully assimilate Bulgarian Muslims, known and the "Revival Process.
Two Bulgarian oppositional parties have demanded that Defense Minister Anyu Angelov and Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov address the Parliament on Wednesday in the aftermath of the explosions that took place at an ammunition depot.
There are likely fatalities from the ammo blast in southern Bulgaria, stated the Regional Prosecutor in the city of Yambol, Georgi Handzhiev.
The population of Bulgaria is going down by 6 persons every hour, and by few months it will fall below seven million, the Center for Demographic Statistics alarms.
Bulgarian Plamen Petkov, who drowned saving the life of a four-year-old British kid, will be awarded the order of courage posthumously by his native country.
Some Bulgarian regions have been listed as being part of Turkey in school text and multimedia distributed to students in Istanbul.
Three workers are still missing after Tuesday's incident in which an ammunition depot exploded in Southeastern Bulgaria.
Bulgarian environmentalist staged once again Wednesday a protest rally against looming amendments to the Forestry Act.
Bulgaria's Interior Ministry has warned that munitions and fragments of munitions have been scattered in the region surrounding the Petolachkata road junction in Southeastern Bulgaria.
The planet Venus moved across the face of the Sun, fascinating skywatchers across the globe who had the chance to observe one of the rarest events in the Solar System.
Prominent American science fiction author Ray Bradbury has died at 91, his publisher and family informed Wednesday.
Bulgarian charming dancer Siana Hristova has triumphed at World Dance Masters 2012 in Pore?, Croatia, winning the first world cup for her country ever.
Interpol-wanted convicted mobsters Angel Hristov and Plamen Galev, better known as the Galevi brothers, have fled to the Seychelles, local media reports say as a sense of thriving impunity continues to gain momentum in Bulgaria.
The great Russian composer Tchaikovsky is remembered most for such timeless classics as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake, the last of which is being brought to Dubai by Sofia Ballet.
"Bulgaria's economy resembles a passenger aboard the Titanic, who has caught a cold.
Spain's economy minister has denied speculations that the country is about to seek a bailout of its bank sector.
The United States has officially confirmed the death of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a top al-Qaeda strategist believed to be the militant group.
Famous American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has revealed she has been diagnosed with brain tumor, but claims she does not worry a bit as it is benign.
Freedom of speech may be the mother of all freedoms, but the average Bulgarian does not seem to care a lot about it.
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