Bribes were paid by 6 percent of Bulgaria's small-size enterprises that clinched public procurements, a survey of NGO Coalition 2000 shows. Mere 18 percent of businessmen in the country say they would never pay, the research also indicates.
Turkey assured Bulgaria's Transport Ministry that it would put an end to the troubles of Bulgarian transport firms encountered while obtaining Turkish haulage permits. Bulgarian Deputy Transport Minister Lyubomil Ivanov now hopes that some 2,000 permits w
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the District Heating Project in Bulgaria, which will improve district heating services in the capital of Sofia and the town of Pernik. Under the project, Toplofikacia Sofia will receive a USD 27.
Bulgaria's bank of the year is to be announced by Pari Daily at a ceremony at Hilton Sofia June 25.
There is significant progress in Bulgaria's customs administration over the last few months, the board chairman of Crown Agents in Bulgaria said Tuesday. The British consultancy Crown Agents was hired to conduct reforms in Bulgarian customs system.
There won't be a third candidate for Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, Plamen Panayotov, floor leader of ruling Simeon II National Movement and Ahmed Dogan, leader of ruling coalition ally the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, told after they recei
A twenty-percent stake in Bulgaria's State Insurance Institute DZI will be sold on the local bourse end-June, Dimitar Aleksandrov of United Bulgarian Bank said Tuesday. The sale was included in the country's 2002 annual list of non-cash privatisation dea
The purchase of some 50-60% of Bulgartabac output should be guaranteed to the future owners, Bulgartabac Holding Executive Director Georgi Kostov said.
Seven of the 2500 major tax debtors will be stripped of their travel passports. Police is now entitled to handle their cases.
The unemployment in Bulgaria continues to drop nearing 15 percent, the executive director of Bulgaria's Employment Agency Tsveta Nanyova said Monday.
The offers for the purchase of Bulgarian GSM operator MobilTel should be submitted till June 19 to the office of Citibank - London, Vienna weekly Format reported. Currently the leading GSM provider in Bulgaria is owned by Austrian businessmen.
US companies have shown huge interest in the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline according to Bulgaria's Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Valentin Tserovski.
The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency has begun a formal investigation into alleged dumping of steel plate from Bulgaria, imports that have been blamed for recent layoffs at Stelco Inc. and Algoma Steel Inc, the Canada Dot Com reported.
The privatisation deal for the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) could be completed within fifteen days, said the president of Koc Holding, the bidder that recently started talks for a sale contract.
Bulgaria's economy minister denied that consultations are being held to turn the Varna Shipyard into NATO base. Commenting on talk that the sale of the shipyard was delayed over such negotiations, Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev told the Dnes+ news age
Bulgaria's Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev ordered an inspection in a Bulgarian plant where the workers protest claiming the leadership wants the enterprise to go bankrupt. Independent experts will be dispatched to the plant for steel-and-concrete cons
Bulgaria has made deliveries to the United Nations worth mere USD 200,000 although the organization invites tenders for USD 4 M every year. To boost the participation of the Bulgarian firms in such tenders, the government organized a special seminar that
The ruling majority remains undecided over the format of the sale of Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac, it emerged Friday.
Bulgaria's National Electricity Transmission Company sent Thursday proposals for amendments to the agreement for Bulgarian electricity exports to Turkey. The reply of its Turkish counterpart TETAS is expected within three days.
The delay in electing new governor of the Bulgarian National Bank may turn out to be a storm in a teacup because of the political unrest, said Steve H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and advisor to forme
Japanese Mitsubishi Heavy Inc. and US company Access International Inc have been given the greenlight to construct a new thermal power plant in Pleven, Northern Bulgaria, some 200 kilometers from Sofia.
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