A number of companies voiced plans to invest in Bulgaria after a forum held in London on the benefits of the country as an investment destination.
Google announced it has released updated maps for 10 countries and regions in Europe, including Bulgaria, which makes the Ground Truth initiative now available in 40 countries worldwide.
Traffic on Bulgaria's Trakiya highway between the town of Karnobat and the Black Sea city of Burgas has been reinstated as of 8 am Thursday.
The new air traffic control tower at Sofia airport was put into operation right after its official inauguration on Wednesday.
Bulgaria's Parliament adopted Thursday the country's 2013 State Budget Act at second reading after a debate marred by scandals.
The European Central Bank on Thursday slashed its growth forecasts for the Euro Area for both 2012 and 2013, and projected a return to growth in 2014.
Bulgarian lenders suffered a 47% reduction in parent funding during the first half of the year, the largest drop among banks in Central and Eastern Europe, according to Fitch Ratings.
President Rosen Plevneliev will return to Parliament for further review transitional and final provisions of the Investment Promotion Act introducing changes to the Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria Act and the Bulgarian Citizenship Act.
Standard & Poor's has cut Greece's 'CCC' long-term and 'C' short-term sovereign credit ratings to 'SD' (selective default) following the Greek government's offer to buy back its debt at a steep discount, the international rating agency announced on Thursd
Bulgaria's sale agency has picked Czech company Patria Corporate Finance to act as consultant as the country is looking for an investor for its only stock exchange.
Bulgarian Members of the Parliament are voting Thursday on the 2013 State budget after adjourning the session at 10 pm Wednesday.
Swiss-based global engineering group ABB plans to invest about USD 23 M to build its second greenfield factory in Bulgaria, the company announced Thursday.
Diplomat Plaza Hotel & Resort has been awarded as Bulgaria's Top Wellness Hotel for 2012 by the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association (BHRA), the company announced.
A video clip of a TV reporter in Denmark, showing US President Barack Obama saying the same words to a number of country leaders has gained serious popularity in Bulgaria after the visit of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov to Washington DC.
Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has said that the political decision for the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to Schengen is likely to come no earlier than March 2013.
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has declared Sofia's readiness to support Montenegro in the process of its talks for EU accession.
The European Commission is examining the legality of the grid access fee for renewable electricity producers introduced by Bulgaria's State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) in September.
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has confirmed that the US diplomatic cables about the alleged criminal past of Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, leaked through the whistle-blowing site, are fully authentic.
Slovakia's parliament voted for scrapping the 19% flat tax, replacing it with higher taxes on the rich, politicians and corporations as of 2013.
Bulgaria's parliament cut short the term of Monika Panayotova, MP from the ruling party, as she is heading to join the European Parliament.
Wilfred Martens, President of the European People's Party, EPP, has issued a statement announcing he was shocked by words of the leader of the Bulgarian and European Socialists, Sergey Stanishev.
Bulgaria's parliamentary opposition has been outrage by what it deemed a severe insult on part of Finance Minister and Deputy PM Simeon Djankov during the second reading debates on the 2013 State Budget Act.
Sixty two Members of the Parliament requested Thursday the establishment of an ad hoc committee to probe tipoffs for illegal activities in Bulgaria's Scientific Research Fund.
The head of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation Lazar Gruev Lazar Gruev has declared himself in favor of abolishing life sentences without parole, which is the harshest legal punishment in Bulgaria.
One Bulgarian sailor has been rescued late Wednesday evening after the sinking of cargo ship Baltic Ace in the North Sea.
The Bulgarian capital Sofia is last among European Union capitals by the quality of living, according to the ranking of the American consulting company Mercer.
Bulgarian fishermen, sailors and bankers are celebrating on December 6 their common patron, Christian St Nicholas.
The European Championship in 2020 will be staged in cities across the continent to spread the financial load of hosting the tournament, European football's governing body UEFA said on Thursday.
Zlatko Zhivkov, Mayor of the northwestern Bulgarian town of Montana, has been charged with malfeasance in office and embezzling receipts from municipal waste disposal fee.
Bulgaria's Border Police have arrested a total of 20 illegal immigrants who had crossed the border with Turkey overnight, the Interior Ministry announced.
Bulgarian border police officers have detained a total of five illegal immigrants trying to cross the border into Serbia apparently attempting to reach Western Europe.
Julian Assange was asked to present at the European Parliament S&D party seminar on Corruption in member states of the European Union.
Philip Hollobone told MPs the number of migrants from the two countries who are in the UK could soar from 155,000 to 425,000 within two years and said it was a “disgrace” that the government was refusing to issue its own estimate.
At least four tanks were deployed outside the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo on Thursday after overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi.
Greece's unemployment rate has risen to a record high of 26% in September, as the country heads to a sixth year of recession, the Greek state statistics agency (ELSTAT) said on Thursday.
Industrial orders in Germany have reached their highest growth in two years largely thanks to a growing demand for German-made goods outside the euro area, new data showed on Thursday.
The German government has approved participation in a NATO mission to deploy Patriot missiles to help NATO member Turkey defend its border against Syria.
The Uzbek Senate has approved a deal allowing Britain's Royal Air Force to to use the country's airpsace to move its equipment out of Afghanistan north through Central Asia and Russia.
US President Barack Obama tops again Forbes magazine's 2012 annual ranking of the world's most powerful people.
Russia will build two new reactors at China's Tianwan nuclear power plant under an inter-governmental agreement signed on Thursday.
UK Prince William's pregnant wife Catherine left a London hospital on Thursday, four days after she was admitted for treatment for acute morning sickness.
A journalist shot dead late on Wednesday in Nalchik, capital of the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was likely targeted because of his "professional activities," Russian investigators said.
The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armoured troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo after clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi left five dead and hundreds injured.
Around a hundred opposition activists gathered in Moscow Wednesday night to mark the first anniversary of the rally that kick-started unprecedented mass protests against the rule of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Six people have been killed and over 300 injured in clashes between supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and opposition protesters in the capital Cairo, Egypt’s health authorities said on Thursday.
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