Nadezhda Mihaylova, leader of rightist opposition party Union of Democratic Forces, accused of scandalous incompetence the spokesman of the government Dimitur Tsonev. On Tuesday, Tsonev declared that the opposition stood in the way of the government's EU
The rightist Union of Democratic Forces will seek to ensure that the control over arms trade is efficient, UDF leader Nadezhda Mihaylova said in an interview for Radio Free Europe. The opposition party proposes that Parliament appoints a commission to inv
Parliament adopted in first reading four draft laws about privatisation and post-privatisation control and rejected the proposal of the right-wing opposition of the United Democratic Forces (UDF). Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Vassilev commen
Bulgaria's accession to the EU, results in SAPARD implementation and ways to step up the accreditation of new measures under SAPARD will be on the agenda of Bulgarian Agriculture minister Dikme during his meeting with EU Commissioner on Agriculture and Fi
A national youth council on drugs will have a founding meeting January 19, 2003, in Sofia, the initiators announced Tuesday. The decision has been taken at a national youth discussion on the use and distribution of narcotic substances held in Blagoevgrad
Parliament started to consider in first reading five draft laws about privatisation and post-privatisation control. Amendments to the value added tax law are also on today's agenda.
Wheat exports since January reached 1.1 million tonnes, thus hitting a ten-year high.
The base interest rate in December will be 3.31 %, 0.
A 52-year-old Bulgarian was among the 24 passengers on an overnight passenger train that derailed and tumbled into a steep gorge in the southern part of Greece early Tuesday, the Bulgarian National Television reported. Nadka Anguelova from the town of Dup
Leftist "Coalition for Bulgaria" demands a referendum to determine the fate of the country's only N-plant. The left-wingers will table this proposal in Parliament till the end of the week after the executive bureau of Bulgarian Socialist Party okayed the
The Privatisation Agency selected Beta Korp AD as investment intermediary for the bourse flotation of a 1,06% of the capital of Petrol AD. The sale price per share was the most important criteria in selecting the investment intermediary.
The Cabinet accused rightist and leftist opposition parties in Bulgaria in a campaign "against the nationally responsible politics of the government." In a special statement, Dimitur Tsonev, governmental spokesman, said that the aim of the opposition was
14,800 long-term unemployed have been hired so far in 2002 under the nation-wide job programs of the Social Ministry. The data was published by Social Minister Lidya Shuleva.
The World Bank approved the results of a tender for the creation of public registry of lands and cadastre maps in nine Bulgarian districts and four small towns. The project is to be implemented over a five-year-period and is executed under a loan agreemen
A road accident in front of governmental seaside Evksinograd residence left fifteen slightly injured. A bus transporting workers to the Black-sea resort Golden Sands rolled over after the driver tried to escape a crash into a ford car.
The case regarding the complaint of eleven MPs from leftist "Coalition for Bulgaria" against the governmental decision on nuke units three and four will be heard again on December 11. The government did not present in courtroom on Tuesday the shorthand re
The government moved to better the absorption of EU pre-accession funds authorising Finance Minister Milen Velchev to coordinate them. The European programs PHARE, ISPA, SAPARD, ITEREG III have previously been run by the regional development or the agricu
A ten-kilometer patch of oil sails in the Bulgarian sector of the Danube, environmental experts from Vratsa announced. Border guards noticed the slick a week ago in the sector between Kozloduy and Oryahovo.
Italy's Prime Minister Berlusconi said Italy fully supported the construction of corridor VIII. That emerged after the private dinner between Berlusconi and Saxe-Coburg in Milan on Sunday evening.
The Greek government will grant EUR 54,29 M to support priority projects in Bulgaria over the next four years. Twenty percent of the sum will go to private projects as the contractors will be selected by the Greek side.
A proposal to make a Saturday a day of protest in front of the courthouse in Seattle was expressed by Toni Peycheff, a member of the Bulgarian community in Seattle, in his letter to the Editors of novinite.com.
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