A total of BGN 200,000 have been budgeted for the National Programme for Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Drug Addictions in 2003. This was announced by Health Minister Bozhidar Finkov at the 3rd National Conference of Municipal Boards on Narco
Bulgaria's government handles the problem with illegal immigrants in the EU countries as a priority. The country's Interior Minister Petkanov said that at the international conference on organized crime combat in London.
German shipyard Luerssen was contracted to build two new patrol ships for Bulgaria's Border Police. The contract was signed under a project of the PHARE Programme that aims at tightening control along Bulgaria's Black Sea border.
European Parliament President Pat Cox meets parliament speakers from the EU applicant countries. Bulgaria will be represented by the parliament's Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov.
President Parvanov summons financial experts and political figures for discussion of the 2003 draft budget. The debates were announced at the president's press conference during the Prague NATO summit.
The non-confidence motions, lodged by left-wing Coalition for Bulgaria and right-wing opposition United Democratic Forces (UDF) will most probably be debated jointly in the Bulgarian Parliament on Thursday or Friday this week, Parliamentary Speaker Ognyan
TEREM-related political resignations are to be announced till end-November, Defense Minister Svinarov said. The minister noted he would mull at what level and who is to resign during a special consultation with Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg.
A new large-scale operation against illegal Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants was carried out on Monday by police in Amsterdam. The Dutch authorities ordered a search of over twenty buildings and fifty illegal residents were arrested by noon.
Environment and Waters Minister Dolores Arsenova, Youth and Sport Minister Vassil Ivanov, and MPs of the Simeon II National Movement joined in the planting of 70 trees in the South Park in Sofia Monday. The initiative was part of an Environment Ministry c
Three Bulgarians have been arrested in Northern Greece on charges of counterfeit euro banknotes possession, Bulgarian National Radio reported, citing Greek sources. Police discovered 400 fake banknotes, worth EUR 50 each.
Bulgarian forestry specialists will undergo Finnish-type training after Sofia's National Forestry Office and Helsinki's State Forest Company sign a co-operation protocol in the end of 2002. Bulgaria is to tap Finland's rich experience in the management an
Kostadin Yankov, a Bulgarian student at the University of Oxford, died in an English hospital after an accident, the Bulgarian National Radio reported. According to initial information he was 28-year-old, member of an extreme sports club with the Oxford U
The resolve of the European Union to fight organized crime on the Balkans should be supported by Balkan countries if they want to ease the process of coming closer to the EU. Foreign Commissioner Javier Solana said that at the international conference on
There will be legislative and normative changes in Bulgaria's Intelligence Services, which could be accompanied by a structural reshuffle, President Parvanov said at a briefing November 25. Taking up a question the president said at his meeting with the a
The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) praised thirty-two Bulgarian hospitals for their exemplary service of patients send by the general practitioners. The assessment of the health institutions that signed contracts with the NHIF spans the months from
An exhibition titled "Bulgaria's Way to NATO" opened in the Museum of Armed Forces History. A special ceremony attended by Defense Minister Svinarov marked the opening.
Bulgaria's joining the International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation must be viewed in the context of the country's major foreign policy priorities, Euro-integration Minister Kuneva said in the Hague November 25. Minister Kuneva le
Roma Future Association, an organization involving people from Bulgaria's biggest and most discriminated minority - the gypsies, will apply for a license to establish a Roma radio. According to the association's leaders, the radio should prove that "gypsi
A team of specialists will test school children in the Southern town of Kurdzhali for heavy metal concentration in their blood. Till November 29, some hundred children aged between seven and eleven will undergo tests with several indicators.
Every fourth Bulgarian woman has fallen victim to domestic violence, show statistics, released on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Usually the abused women run away back to their families or friends without
If the opposition does not succeed to avert the Cabinet's decision about the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in the Parliament, it might take to the streets in a later stage of the public debates on the N-plant . Luben Kornezov, deputy chair of the parliamen
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