Queues of cargo trucks at Bulgaria's border with Serbia eased March 6 after Serb officers' protests over low salaries made situation tense at Kalotina checkpoint a day earlier. There is still no information about the Serb officers' protests, but all wait
The Privatisation Agency is obliged to comply with the Parliament-adopted amendments to the privatisation Act, which are to affect the sale of Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac. This transpired at a press conference of Privatisation Agency represen
A court hearing of Bulgaria's ex-prime minister murder case stirred media interest on Thursday as Ilya Pavlov, president of MG Corporation and former notorious Multigrup, testified in court. Pavlov said he had no conflicts with former Prime Minister Andr
Bulgaria, a supporter of the Bush administration's Iraq stance, is about to be bestowed with the coveted economic status of "market economy," the Associated Press reported. The news was announced during the visit of US Secretary of Commerce Don Evans in
Foreign nationals who are to reside in Bulgaria have to register within 48 hours of their arrival at an office of the foreigners control authority or a regional police department, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry announced. Accredited representatives of d
Spain's King Juan Carlos and his wife arrive on a two-day official visit to Bulgaria on March 31st, a Bulgarian daily reported. The invitation was extended during the mandate of fomer Bulgarian President Petur Stoyanov.
Two American military helicopters landed on Wednesday at Burgas airport in residential district of Sarafovo in Burgas Black Sea city. The airport's authorities refused to give details from where the helicopters took off.
Spain might have introduced temporary measures to limit the entry of Bulgarians in Spain, according to the Bulgarian Interior Ministry. The Spanish authorities did not allow several Bulgarian buses on its territory after two Bulgarians were killed in Mad
The US Secretary of State Colin Powell told Russian television that the United States is prepared to go to war against Iraq even if the Security Council votes against military action. The Russians are also hardening their position.
Bulgaria's foreign minister urged the establishment of NATO bases in Bulgaria as he anticipates their positive effect on the country's security and economic growth. "The sooner, the better," Foreign Minister Passy said about the possible bases that the a
Iraqi charge d'affaires in Sofia Yahya Salih Mahdi implied that the Burgas airport could be attacked in case of war. Bulgaria's parliament allowed the use of the airport by 18 US aircraft and deployment of 400 US ground troops in the east European country
A new deputy finance minister was appointed on Wednesday to manage the pre-accession funds from the European Union. Lyubomir Datsov will be the fifth deputy of Finance Minister Milen Velchev.
The Foreign Ministry does not have information for Bulgarian victims in the blast in Israeli town Haifa. Lyubomir Todorov, spokesman of the ministry, said that it was not clear now when the ministry will have more data about the nationality of the victims
Former Israeli President Yitzhak Navon will visit Bulgaria on the occasion of the Day of the Holocaust victims and the 60th anniversary since the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews at the invitation of President Parvanov. Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Zb
Bulgaria's position on the Iraq crisis will not threaten the oncoming membership of the country in the European Union. This is what Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini stated at a news conference while on a visit to Sofia.
Cargo trucks queue at Bulgarian Kalotina border checkpoint as Serb customs officers on the other side continue protests demanding better remunerations.
Swedish Ambassador to Sofia Sten Ask hosted an informal luncheon for the representative of British company Crown Agents hired to reform Bulgarian customs -- John Brown. Present was also Maurice Campbell, adviser of Bulgaria's finance minister.
The range, purpose and tasks of the upcoming peer review at Bulgaria's Kozloduy N-plant units 3 and 4 were discussed by the N-plant's management and Sergey Vibornov, coordinator of the review from WANO's centre in Moscow and the head of WANO team that is
A medical doctor was arrested with marked banknotes that he took as a bribe in the city of Pazardzhik, some 110km to the south of Sofia. The arrest came after a parent complained in the city Prosecutor's Office that the doctor demanded a two-figure sum to
A new parliamentary group tabled the papers required for its formal creation in the Parliament on Wednesday. The move comes from the splinter group that said it would leave the ruling party Simeon II National Movement early February.
Bulgaria's rightist oppostion party said Parliament Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov should resign over "a breach of the Constitution."
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