ARCHIVE - 28 May 2013
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Speaking after a meeting with business representatives from Baden- Wurttemberg, President Rosen Plevneliev noted that large German companies like Mercedes and Bosch were seeking to expand production in Bulgaria.
Business | May 28, 2013, Tuesday // 15:18
Bulgarian haulers have requested from the government to impose reciprocal restrictions for Turkish freighters, after talks between freighters from the two countries to resolve the traffic dispute failed.
Business | May 28, 2013, Tuesday // 15:05
The restrictive measures against Bulgarian freight road carriers will not only be restored effective June 1, but even upped, as this is the position of the Turkish haulers association UND.
Business | May 28, 2013, Tuesday // 12:16
The Greek government has favorably changed privatization conditions for gas company DEPA in a procedure where the sole large bidder is Russian gas giant Gazprom.
Bulgaria's caretaker government proposes to have the Parliament elect the members of the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation, DKEVR.
The electricity bills will not go up from 1 July, the National Commission of Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) announced.
The European Commission has released its report on the Bulgarian energy sector, making a bleak prognosis of shrinking electricity consumption due to population decline in the next 10 years.
Non-transparency in the management of State-owned companies, a widespread sense of corruption and an insufficiently independent regulator to control the entire energy system, are just some of the findings of the World Bank.
France's GDF Suez has agreed to buy around 9% in the Nabucco West gas pipeline project from Austria's OMV.
The turbo generator of unit six of Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant, the Kozloduy NPP, was disconnected from the power grid Tuesday morning to fix a minor technical problem.
The Bulgarian Consular Office in the Russian capital Moscow has broken all records in issuing visas to Russian citizens, the Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministry reported Tuesday.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Nominee, Plamen Oresharski, has pledged structural changes in the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism.
According to a Eurostat report on population at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion, Bulgaria had the highest share of people living in material deprivation in the EU-27 in 2011.
The yet undisclosed projected second deputy-PM in Bulgaria's PM nominee Plamen Oresharski's cabinet project is a top-tier business manager, according to reports.
Bulgaria's police unit for fight with organized crime might be transferred to the State Agency for National Security, according to planned legislative amendments in Bulgaria's new parliament.
Bulgarian nationalist Ataka party, who are emerging as kingmakers of sorts in a political stalemate, have announced they will decide whether to back Plamen Oresharski's cabinet proposal just before the sitting of Parliament Wednesday.
Bulgarian PM nominee Plamen Oresharski's cabinet proposal is inept and dangerous for the country, according to previous Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov.
The parliamentary group of Bulgaria's formerly-ruling center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party, will be in plenary hall Wednesday, but would not register to vote on the proposal for new Cabinet.
The parliamentary group of Bulgaria's far-right nationalist Ataka party is convening Tuesday evening to decide on how to vote on the proposal for the country's new Cabinet.
Ivan Danov, who replaced Kalin Tiholov as Bulgarian PM nominee Plamen Oresharski's candidate for Investment Projects Minister, has ties to a company known to have engaged in shady practices, according to investigative site Bivol.
Bulgaria's former Tsar and Prime Minister, Simeon Saxe-Coburg, has praised the Socialist PM nominee and former Finance Minister, Plamen Oresharski, calling him a top-notch professional with own opinion and grasp of any situation.
Ivan Danov is the new nominee for Minister of Investment Planning in the government formed with the mandate of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, after Kalin Tihov withdrew from the panel amid public outcry and accusations of involvement in scandalous de
The caretaker Bulgarian Cabinet reported Tuesday significant achievements in helping the most disadvantaged people in the country.
President Rosen Plevneliev has issued a decree proposing to Parliament to elect socialist candidate Plamen Oresharski Prime Minister of Bulgaria's next government.
Bulgarian Socialist Prime Minister candidate Plamen Oresharski has replaced controversial Investment Planning Minister nominee Kalin Tiholov with Ivan Danov.
Kalin Tiholov, nominee for Investment Planning Minister in the government formed with the mandate of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), has stepped down from the panel amid public outcry.
Prime Minister candidate Plamen Oresharski will present Tuesday the composition and the structure of the government firmed with the mandate of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) to President Rosen Plevneliev.
As Bulgaria's Parliament prepares to vote on a new government panel headed by Prime Minister-designate Plamen Oresharski, the caretaker cabinet will report the results of its activities during its two months and a half in office.
Protesters in Bulgarian capital Sofia who walked out against the cabinet proposal of PM hopeful Plamen Oresharski have reached the square in front of the President's Office.
Society | May 28, 2013, Tuesday // 20:34
Protesters against the proposed new Bulgarian cabinet to be chaired by PM hopeful Plamen Oresharski have blocked traffic at the main Orlov Most (Eagles Bridge) intersection in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.
Society | May 28, 2013, Tuesday // 19:56
A protest has been called for Tuesday evening on Facebook in central Sofia over alleged "mafia" ties of persons nominated for ministers by Bulgarian PM hopeful Plamen Oresharski Monday.
Society | May 28, 2013, Tuesday // 16:27
A monument, honoring the perished Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver, will be erected at the Burgas airport, exactly one year after the terror act.
Society | May 28, 2013, Tuesday // 12:52
Bulgaria launched Tuesday the traditional spring book bazaar, offering books from all genres and price ranges.
Bulgarian lawmakers will seek to end months of political uncertainty with a vote on a Cabinet proposed by the Socialist Party, the previous government's main opposition, which placed second in this month's election.
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