A five-member panel of Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) overruled the decision of the of the supervisory board of the Privatisation Agency to scrap the EUR 210 M sale of a 65-percent stake in Bulgarian Telecommunications Company BTC to U.S.
One of the associations of Bulgarian businessmen sounded alarm about possible shocks for local entrepreneurs as the country is expected to join the European Union. They voiced their concerns at a meeting with Bulgaria's Euro-integration Minister Meglena K
As Bulgaria moves to boost collection of taxes and social contributions, the financial administration counts on an increase of BGN 600 M of tax revenues till 2006. The leap is expected since the country is currently establishing a national agency on reve
Over 80,000 Bulgarians are working thanks to the social program "From Social Benefits to Employment", the executive director of Bulgaria's Employment Agency Tsveta Nanyova said Monday. She also explained that over BGN 43 M have been spent on the social p
The deputy prime minister who switched the Economy with the Transport Ministry in Bulgaria's recent governmental reshuffle -- Nikolay Vassilev -- pledged extra attention to the high technologies. He pointed out this sector would be vigorously stimulated d
Bulgaria will not suffer a grain crisis, the country's agriculture minister affirmed. Mehmed Dikme who heads the Agriculture Ministry in Sofia countered the words of his predecessor Ventsislav Varbanov who sounded alarm Friday over "looming shortages.
Bulgaria's biggest insurer DZI denied media talk that it does not cover the war risks of the Bulgarian Iraq-bound battalion. The company, which won the insurance contract following a tender, stated Saturday that it covers all possible risks.
Bulgaria's freshly appointed Economy Minister Lydia Shuleva discussed the main priorities of the government for her new province highlighting investments, small and middle-sized enterprises and infrastructure as top issues.
The communications regulating commission in Sofia is in search for candidates to launch three satellites into space. The satellites will transmit radio, television, Internet, and voice telephony signals as well as convey data.
Bulgaria anticipates a substantial increase in its customs revenues in 2003 according to the country's finance minister. This year's results will overshoot what was collected in 2001 by BGN 700 M.
The biggest Bulgarian insurer DZI secured full-range insurance for the Bulgarian infantry battalion that leaves Saturday on an Iraq peacekeeping mission. The military unit will be indemnified in case of accidents and will have medical expanses covered.
Three Bulgarian hotels were made part of the European hotel chain Minotel, Bulgarian Dnevnik daily reported.
The commissions on energy and economy policy with the Parlaiment in Sofia approved the social section to the strategy for the privatization of Bulgaria's seven power distribution utilities. Milko Kovachev, Bulgaria's energy minister, commented that it wa
Bulgaria will be soon hit by a wheat crisis says a declaration of the rightist opposition party Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) published Friday by Ventsislav Varbanov, agriculture minister in the previous Bulgarian government. The declaration also pred
Bulgaria's Commission for Protection of Competition has approved the deal with Hungary's National Savings and Commercial Bank (OTP) over the privatisation of a 100 per cent stake in Bulgaria's last state-owned DSK bank. The decision says that the privati
Bulgaria's Cabinet greenlighted controversial amendments to the Labour Code so that they can enter the Parliament.
Bulgaria's syndicates might state their conditions in the draft contracts over the privatization of the country's seven power distribution utilities, Bulgaria's Energy Ministry announced Wednesday.
The measures that Bulgaria's government had taken against the shadow economy have already yielded result according to experts. The steps made to refrain outlaw business activities, as least those introduced since the start of 2003, have had the necessary
Bulgarian customs revenues reached some BGN 1.5 B over the first half of 2003, officials reported Wednesday.
Three new PHARE projects worth EUR 7 M officially started in Bulgaria Wednesday in support of small and middle-sized business. An analysis of Bulgarian business' present condition will be made as part of the projects.
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