Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg will participate in the meeting of the European Council in Barcelona on March 15. For the first time the prime ministers of the candidate states and the members states will participate together at a working meeting of the Europe
The Parliamentary Committee, which conducted an inquiry into the Chief Prosecutor allegations against Former Agriculture Minister Ventsislav Vurbanov, suggested that the Parliament vote his stripping of immunity. According to the committee there is suffic
Ten kilos of heroin have been detained in Bulgaria since the beginning of 2002, Director of the National Service for Organized Crime Control, Roumen Milanov said. According to officials from the National Service after the US strikes in Afghanistan drugs
Bulgaria and Albania’s role for the establishment of stability in Southeast Europe was confirmed at the meeting of Bulgarian parliamentary delegation, headed by Parliamentary Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov, and Albania’s President Rexhep Meidani in Tirana late
There is no scandal over the selection of the company, which will upgrade and overhaul the Bulgarian MiG-29 fighter aircraft, Defense Minister Svinarov announced. He said that currently negotiations are being held with the Russian company RSK "MiG", which
No dangers threaten the safety if the Bulgarian contingent in Kabul, Anguel Orbetsov, Foreign Minister’s special envoy to Kabul said. He pointed out that the Bulgarian mission is in charge of the sanitary protection in the camp.
Defense Minister Nikolay Svinarov said before the regular governmental meeting that a new deputy defense minister at the place of Radi Naydenov, who is the new Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, will be appointed next week.
Social Minister Lidia Shuleva is to sign an agreement on au pair workers in Strasbourg March 7. Under the agreement only licensed Bulgarian companies will send au pairs to Europe, while the recipient countries will provide good living conditions and pay t
Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg will pay an official visit to Romania at the invitation of his counterpart - Adrian Nastase during the week-end. He will have have lunch with his cousin King Michael I during his visit to Romania.
Seventy-five percent of the foreign investors who participated in the roundtable with the Bulgarian Government are optimistic about Bulgaria’s future, Nenad Pasek, Director of The Economist Group in Vienna, said at a news conference on behalf of the organ
Bulgaria’s foreign minister’s special envoy to Afghanistan Anguel Orbetsov came back from Afghanistan on March 4. He left for there on January 18 for a research mission.
Discussions on the future of Nuclear Power Plant Kozloduy are being held on two different levels – purely technical and political, Energy Minister Milko Kovachev, said. According to him the important question is whether the European Union is willing to ho
“Bulgarian construction week - 2002”, an international specialized exhibition, opened March 6 in the International Exhibition Center – Sofia. More than 200 companies take part in the exhibition, whose aim is boosting contacts.
Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg appointed Gati Al-Jiburi to the position deputy finance minister, the Finance Ministry announced. He will replace the dismissed from the position Atanas Katsarchev.
Prospects for further development of cooperation and solidarity among NATO applicant countries, joint activities in the fight against terrorism and the situation in Southeast Europe are to be discussed at the Skopje meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the
“The state of the country is graver than a year ago. The social tension grows both because of the patent taxes and the grey economy, “ the leader of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) Zhelyazko Hristov said after a meeting o
At a meeting with the leadership of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov asked for the parliamentary support of “Coalition for Bulgaria” for legislative measures that are to be approved by Parliament. Bulgarian Socialist Party
The leaders of the United Democratic Forces (UDF) met on March 6 with Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg in Parliament. “The consensus that we reached with UDF will lead to a successful way in NATO preparations till the summit in Prague, “ Saxe-Coburg commented a
Nikolay Apostolov, Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Germany will be appointed to the position deputy defense minister to replace Radi Naydenov who has been appointed Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff.
Maxim, the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, and the Holy Synod will send a letter to Pope John Paul II end-March, which will confirm the Patricrch’s meeting with the Pope during his visit in Bulgaria in May. This transpired after the meeting of
Culture Minister Bozhidar Abrashev will pay an official visit to Hungary, starting from March 7 at the invitation of his counterpart Zoltan Rockenbauer. An intergovernmental agreement is to be signed, regarding the status of the Bulgarian Cultural Institu
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