Bulgaria's Mecca of Malls Goes from Boom to Bust
A raging economic slowdown and dwindling holiday crowds from Romania have hit hard the mallification ambitions of the Danube town of Ruse, northern Bulgaria.
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A raging economic slowdown and dwindling holiday crowds from Romania have hit hard the mallification ambitions of the Danube town of Ruse, northern Bulgaria.
Bulgarian independent MP Ventsislav Varbanov has proposed amendments to the formula for determining cigarette excise duty that is expected to result in a price increase for imported cigarettes.
In June 2012, the total business climate indicator decreases by 1.2%, compared to its May level, according to surveys carried out by the country's National Statistical Institute, NSI.
The number of fully Greek-owned companies in Bulgaria increased by 72% year on year in 2011, Bulgaria's National Revenue Agency has revealed.
Greek telecoms group OTE will seek to sell its Bulgarian businesses - a mobile phone company and an electronic appliance retail chain – for no less than EUR 800 M, according to reports.
The Mayor of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, labels reports that the residents of the city will be left without hot water beginning July 2012 "absurd.
Bulgarians, who own real estate property in Greece, owe taxes there, the National Revenue Agency, NRA, reminds.
The South Stream Transport AG consortium has has formally initiated the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure for the Bulgarian section of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline Project, according to a media statement of the company.
BP and the Shah Deniz gas field in the Caspian Sea have selected the Nabucco West pipeline as a potential export route for Shah Deniz Stage 2 gas to Europe, it has been made clear.
Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has arrived on a visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of former Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov and his wife, Antonina Stoyanova.
Turkey is grateful to Bulgaria for its support of the country's bid to join the European Union and for its eased visa rules for Turkish citizens, Turkish EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis has stated.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev voiced criticism of the measures taken to combat corruption at a meeting with Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev on Thursday.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov believes that a greater political integration within the European Union is not necessary at the moment.
Bulgaria observed the largest decline in the number of business trips made by its residents among all EU member states from 2008 to 2011 (-60%), according to Eurostat.
Bulgaria's central bank governor has attacked proposals for an EU banking union, saying that the extension of banking supervision across the bloc is a premature step.
European Union leaders are meeting Thursday and Friday in Brussels for a key summit on the fate of the Eurozone, where Bulgaria will be represented by Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov.
The National Executive Council of the right-wing Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) has invited any members who do not feel UDF as a personal cause to 'drop their masks' and openly state their political intentions.
Right wing politician Nayden Zelenogorski is leaving the Union of Democratic Forces, UDF, to continue his "fight for freedom, democracy and prosperity" by joining the Bulgaria for Citizens project of ex EU Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva.
Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev is beginning Thursday a series of meetings with representatives of the judicial power in the country.
BBC Worldwide has licensed a package of 90 hours of programming to Bulgaria's state-owned TV channel.
Large billboards have appeared in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv condemning the upcoming LGBT parade in the capital Sofia.
The Chair of Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court, VAS, Georgi Kolev, firmly denied reports he is going to run for Chief Prosecutor.
The Bulgarian State pays over BGN 3 M a year in damages caused by mistakes of the prosecution and over wrongly charged citizens.
Bulgarian tobacco growers are staging a large protest rally Thursday in the capital Sofia.
A mild earthquake was felt on Thursday in northeastern Bulgaria, about fifty kilometers west of the summer capital Varna.
The Waste Management Act was finally passed at second reading by the Bulgarian Parliament Thursday, after nearly year-long debates.
Bulgaria's Ivet Lalova, also known as "the fastest white woman", has triumphed with the European Title in the 100 m sprint at the European Track and Field Championship in Helsinki, Finland.
David Beckham, the 37-year-old former England skipper, has been left out of Great Britain Olympic football squad even though he thought he had a "good chance" of playing at London 2012.
Bulgarian tennis hopeful Tsvetana Pironkova lost 6:7, 7:6, 0:6 to world No 1 Maria Sharapova in the second round of the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament.
Aston Villa captain, Bulgarian Stilyan Petrov, who was shockingly diagnosed with acute leukemia in March, has been released from a London hospital, but his battle against the horrible disease is far from over.
A notorious businessman from the Black Sea city of Varna and the head of the Customs checkpoint "Oltomantsi" have been arrested during a special police operation, codenamed "The Cigarette Dealers.
An urgent overhaul of Bulgarian laws is needed to ensure that hate crimes which all too frequently target gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are properly investigated and prosecuted,
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Lithuania's Parliament ratified Thursday the European Union's Fiscal Stability Treaty aimed at toughening fiscal discipline and the enforcement of EU budget rules.
A Greek bank worker plunged to his death from the Acropolis on Thursday in an apparent response to the hardship caused by the austerity crisis.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has acquitted Radovan Karadzic of 1 of the 2 genocide counts he faces.
A coalition government consisting of three parties is about to be formed in Serbia, with socialist leader Ivica Dacic, according to a media report.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced Serb ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj to two more years behind bars.
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has been an emphatically "lifestyle" Prime Minister, strutting his stuff 24/7 in front of cameras and microphones.
A 19-year-old Serbian national has been prevented from boarding a Bulgarian airplane by the security officers at Berlin's Schoenefeld airportbecause she repeatedly announced she was carrying a bomb in her bag.
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