Bulgarian Customs Agency Head: Smuggling through Greek Border Falling
Vanyo Tanov, head of Bulgaria's Customs Agency, has informed that smuggling across the Greek border has declined substantially, unlike smuggling through Macedonia and Albania.
Vanyo Tanov, head of Bulgaria's Customs Agency, has informed that smuggling across the Greek border has declined substantially, unlike smuggling through Macedonia and Albania.
Bulgaria's finances are stable and the fiscal reserve is in good shape, according to resigned Financial Minister, Simeon Djankov.
Bulgarian Socialist MEP Iliyana Yotva has suggested that the Chief Prosecutor should initiate a self-referral and ban outgoing Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Simeon Djankov from leaving the country until the financial situation of the country
Bulgaria's State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) will be able to change electricity prices more frequent than once a year, according to legal amendments approved by the parliamentary committee on economic policy, energy and tourism.
The Members of the Bulgarian Parliament passed Tuesday at second reading the Energy Efficiency Act.
Outgoing Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev has insisted that Bulgaria's Parliament finish work on a set of proposed amendments to the Energy Act in its remaining few weeks in office.
Bulgaria's cigarette market declined by 5.9% in January 2013 compared with December 2012, according to latest data from the industry.
The Bulgarian Embassy in Cairo has no information about Bulgarian citizens hurt in the accident with a tourist balloon in the Egyptian resort of Luxor, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced.
The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin has advised Germans traveling to Bulgaria to avoid areas where demonstrations and protest gatherings are held.
Bulgaria's capital Sofia is to host Tuesday the sixth meeting of the International Working Group on sanctions against Syria, established within the framework of the "Friends of the Syrian People" group.
In 2011, the highest share of those aged less than 18 who were at risk of poverty or social exclusion was registered in Bulgaria (52%), according to data of Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU.
The European Commission is to recover from Bulgaria a sum of EUR 23 000 in unduly spent EU funds under the Rural Development Program.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed that newcomers to the country are to be banned from claiming legal aid in cases involving benefits, housing and other civil claims.
The Czech government has demanded that the European Commission put pressure on Bulgaria after the Balkan country said it would revoke the license of the CEZ energy group, according to a report.
British authorities are about to force millions of European citizens resident in the country to sign up for an identity card, according to a report.
Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, is definitely goind to approach Chief Prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, in seeking legal consequences for outgoing Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov.
Snap election is the only remedy for preserving democracy and national security, according to Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev.
An Association named "Front for Saving Bulgaria - for Boyko" has been established in the Bulgarian capital Sofia Tuesday with the goal of uniting all Bulgarians who want outgoing Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, to keep ruling the country.
Bulgaria's Prosecutor's Office has assigned the State National Security Company DANS with the task of investigating reports that Ahmed Dogan, ex leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party DPS, ordered the assassination of outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Bori
MPs from "Order, Law, Justice" (RZS), a controversial marginal Bulgarian conservative party, have tabled to the Bulgarian Parliament a motion for the holding of a referendum on the summing of Bulgaria's Grand National Assembly for the adoption a new const
The leader of Bulgaria's far-right, nationalist Ataka party, Volen Siderov, managed once again to stir a scandal in shouting and storming out of the emergency sitting of the Consultative Council for National Security, KSNS, at the Office of the President.
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev has reiterated that his party will immediately reject a mandate to form a new government.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has sent a message for preventing the destabilization of the Bulgarian state amidst the ongoing protests against power utilities and corruption in the wake of the resignation of the Borisov Cabinet.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has resigned in order to expose his political opponents, Borisov's closest aide, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has said.
Bulgaria's Consultative Crisis on National security is convening Tuesday, with its sitting expected to be focused on the ongoing political turmoil in the country.
Doctors have banned Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, from watching TV in the next 24 hours to prevent him from worrying too much.
Citizens have gathered Tuesday for a protest rally for the 17th consecutive evening at the key Eagles Bridge intersection in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.
A 53-year-old man has set himself on fire in the southern town of Radnevo, becoming the third such case in Bulgaria in just a week.
Bulgarians are to stage a new nationwide protest rally, according to organizers, Yanko Petkov and Doncho Dudev.
Controversial Bulgarian Metropolitan Nikolay is selling his notorious Rolex watch to pay the electric bill of the Saint Marina church in his bishopric, the second largest city of Plovdiv.
Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has been listed in the government hospital in the capital Sofia with hypertensive crisis.
Metropolitan Joseph, the head of the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia, has resigned, according to Bulgarian media.
The mayor of the Western Buglarian city of Kyustendil, Petar Paunov, has declared an emergency situation.
The Plovdiv Appellate Court has upheld the sentences of Spas Hristov and Georgi Yordanov, ethnic Roma who ran over ethnic Bulgarians during tensions in the village of Katunitsa in September 2011.
Police have detained a young man carrying a pistol and a knife in front of the President's Office in downtown Sofia.
Customs officers from Bulgaria's Kapital Andreevo border crossing point have caught two Romanian women smuggling gold in their underwear.
The police in Bulgaria's capital Sofia have detained 15 youth, including 6 underage teens, on hooliganism charges during Monday night's protests against monopoly power utilities and the already resigned Borisov Cabinet.
The office building of Austrian-owned power utility EVN in Bulgaria's Plovdiv was set on fire Monday night, the local police reported.
Bulgarian capital Sofia's Palace of Justice, home of various judicial institutions and organizations, was closed early on Tuesday after an anonymous bomb alert.
Immigrants are to be banned from receiving legal aid to launch court battles against the government in order to claim benefits.
The ban on "gay propaganda" among minors, currently under review in Russian legislature, does not infringe on human rights – unlike "gay propaganda" itself, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
Foreign investors are reported to be returning to Greece as a result of the reduced labor costs, declining real estate prices, and the available industrial properties.
At least 19 tourists have been killed in a hot air balloon crash near the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, according to international media.
Italy's parliamentary elections have ended in a political deadlock, as no party has achieved a clear majority in Parliament.
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