Lot 1 of Bulgaria's southwestern highway Struma – leading from Sofia to Greece – might be completed ahead of schedule, according to Simeon Peshov, President of construction firm Glavbolgarstroy.
Children from a local track and field club have been implicated in a showcase campaign in support of Kiril Yordanov, the controversial four-term mayor of Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna.
Bulgaria will sign a contract on Wednesday with a Bulgarian-Italian tie-in to design and build Lot 2 of the Struma Highway connecting the towns of Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad.
Bulgaria's mediocre growth is far from sufficient and may trigger new problems, such as an increase in non-performing loans, Nouriel Roubini, the economist dubbed "Dr Doom", warned in Sofia.
Bulgaria's outgoing Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev has vowed that electricity prices will drop from March 1 without citing a concrete percentage.
Czech utility CEZ, which supplies power to over 2 million households and companies in western Bulgaria, claims its house is in order as prosecutors, tax officials and gendarmerie stormed its headquarters in Sofia earlier on Wednesday.
Gendarmerie officers have stormed the premises of power distributor CEZ in Sofia.
Bulgaria's Parliament confirmed Wednesday the country's decision to abandon the Belene nuclear power plant project.
Prosecutors from Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv and tax officials have entered the offices of the three power distributors functioning in Bulgaria, CEZ, EVN, and Energo Pro, to start inspections.
The European Peoples' Party has reiterated its support for Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and his center-right GERB party.
President Rosen Plevneliev has acquainted President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso with the current situation in Bulgaria and the aspects of the economic and social crisis plaguing the country.
The European Commission has approved the project for the construction of lots 1, 2, and 4 of the Struma motorway, according to Ivaylo Moskovski, Bulgaria's outgoing Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications.
Wilfried Scharnagl from Germany's Christian Social Union (CSU) has argued for an urgent reinstatement of the visa regime in order to stop a flood of poor immigrant Roma families from Bulgaria and Romania.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who resigned last week, has been advised to remain in hospital, according to Lozenets hospital director Lyubomir Spasov.
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev has declared that he will not become the country's next Prime Minister even if his party wins the upcoming snap election.
Bulgaria's resigning Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who has been hospitalized with a hypertensive crisis, has been visited in hospital by the new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Neofit.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has revealed that he is to announce the date for the country's snap election on Thursday.
Bulgarian's outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who was admitted to hospital with a hypertensive crisis on Tuesday, felt much better when heard about the progress on the Struma motorway project, according to his Regional Development Minister.
The Bulgarian Socialist Party of former PM Sergey Stanishev expectedly returned the mandate it received for the formation of an interim government on Wednesday.
Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, is expected to be released from the government hospital in the capital Sofia on Wednesday after he was rushed there late on Monday with hypertensive crisis.
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev is expected to turn down the mandate he will receive on Wednesday for the formation of an interim government.
Bulgaria's President will give on Wednesday the mandate to form an interim government to the second largest group in parliament - the Bulgarian Socialist Party
Some 200 local residents besieged Tuesday the municipality building in the Western Bulgarian city of Pernik with demands for compensations for damages from the May 22, 2012, earthquake.
Over 700 students from the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) in Bulgaria's capital Sofia have rallied against a 33% increase in their tuition fees.
Students from the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski are staging a protest Wednesday afternoon against a planned fee hike.
Italian animation studio Gruppo Alcuni has signed a deal with Bulgarian broadcaster TV7 for the distribution of the series Pet Pals 4, Slash://, H20oooh! and the feature film Pet Pals – Marco Polo's Code.
Bulgarian hospitals have run up debts of nearly BGN 147.8 M, with BGN 66.3 M of them owed by the Military Medical Academy in Sofia, according to statistics of the Finance Ministry for debts of hospitals since the beginning of the term in office of the GER
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Italian comedian Beppe Grillo, whose Five-Star Movement (M5S) surprisingly came third in last weekend's elections, has ruled out a coalition with the centre-left.
The gunman who killed two people and wounded seven others in a Swiss factory Wednesday was a 42-year-old employee of the factory, according to local police authorities.
The Pope will hold a final general audience in front of an estimated 150,000 pilgrims in St Peter's Square on Wednesday, the eve of his resignation.
Several people have been killed and seriously injured during a shooting at a factory near the Swiss city of Lucerne, BBC reported, citing police.
The Pope will hold a final general audience in front of thousands of pilgrims in St Peter's Square on Wednesday, the eve of his resignation, BBC reported.
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