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The government will announce its decision to unfreeze the construction of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant near the Danube port of Belene, 250 kilometers (155 miles) northeast of Sofia by the end of December. That was announced by Vesselin Bliznakov, ruling
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Foreign Minister Passy will make a working visit to Italy on Sunday and Monday. He is invited by Italy's Atlantic Club to participate in an international forum "The Euroatlantic Security before and after Prague.
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"The Union of Democratic Forces is convinced that a governance, dominated by the leftist Bulgarian Socialist Party, will lead to no good for Bulgaria," Nadezhda Mihaylova, leader of the right wing party, said at the meeting of the National Council of the
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Bulgaria and the United States will soon sign a memorandum for cooperation in the uncovering of financial crimes. That was announced by Boyko Borissov, chief secretary with the Interior Ministry.
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The organized crime in Bulgaria is too visible and too well-organized, according to U.S.
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"Bulgaria makes no attempts to take back its debt from Iraq," Yahiya Salih Mahdi, charge d'affaires of the Iraqi Embassy in Sofia, said for local NET radio. He asked why Bulgaria hadn't asked UN for compensations as an affected by the embargo country.
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The Chief Secretary with the Interior Ministry General Boyko Borissov said that the introduction of exit visas for Bulgarians had never been discussed. The officials in Brussels also haven't proposed such visas, he added.
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A fire burst in the subway of train station Poduyane in Sofia early on Saturday. It was extinguished.
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A new regional development minister to replace Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Minister in resignation Kostadin Paskalev will be appointed after the meeting in Copenhagen where Bulgaria hopes to get an updated road map and an exact EU accession date. T
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A bomb exploded in the car of the coordinator of ruling party Simeon II National Movement on Friday evening in downtown Plovdiv. The local leader Georgi Mumdzhiev was in the car together with his secretary Stoyanka Kyumdzhieva.
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Direct investments in Bulgaria for the first nine months of the year reached nearly USD 314 M, the Bulgarian Central Bank reported. This marks a fall since the direct investments for the same period last year totalled some USD 494 M.
Politics | November 29, 2002, Friday // 00:00
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Iraq's debt to Bulgaria, accrued over the last twelve years, towers USD 1,700 M, Foreign Minister Passy said in Parliament, expressing serious doubts that the Iraqi government will ever repay it. He pointed out that a democratic Iraq is in Bulgaria's inte
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Parliament rejected in an open vote the two separate non-confidence motions lodged by the right and left opposition. The incumbent Simeon II National Movement holds the most seats in the one-chamber Parliament.
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NATO and Bulgaria both are well aware that there is a lot of work to be done during the next stage, General Joseph Ralston, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said. Last week, NATO extended an invitation to Bulgaria and six other East European countrie
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The Cabinet extended the one-year exit ban for those who broke the law or the travel requirements of a foreign country. With this decision, offenders sent back to Bulgaria by foreign authorities will be banned of leaving the country for two years.
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Interior Minister Petkanov does not favor the introduction of exit visas for Bulgarians that are said to help Sofia curb illegal emigration to the euro-zone countries. In the beginning of this week, exit visas were mentioned by the chief secretary with th
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The number of HIV positive Bulgarians reached 399, the Bulgarian National Radio reported. These are predominantly young people, 70% of them are aged between 20 and 30 years old.
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The first private ambulance service in Bulgaria, Life Guard, was launched in Northern town Veliko Turnovo . The enterprise makes a team of doctors, dentists and guards available round-the-clock.
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The cabinet approved a decree releasing BGN 40,000 to finance the Bulgarian participation in the international conference on "European Prospects of the Balkan Countries" to be held November 29 to December 1 in Athens. The event is co-organized by the Balk
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The Parliament is to vote the two separate non-confidence motions lodged by the right and left opposition before 2 p.m.
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The debates in the Parliament on the two non-confidence motions lodged by both the left and right opposition displayed preoccupation with past events and very "passionate", President Parvanov said. "I, however, believe that when passion cools off, both si
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