Following the battery of a top tax official on Tuesday, tax inspectors from across Bulgaria send a letter to Bulgaria's main institutions demanding quick protection measures. The assaults against tax inspectors and their families have become more frequent
Amsterdam police deported one hundred and fifty illegal Bulgarian immigrants on Wednesday. They were arrested during the last "immigrant hunt" in the Dutch capital on Monday.
The Parliament will open debates on the two non-confidence motions lodged in less than a week by both the right and left opposition on Thursday. The leftist opposition, the ruling party Simeon II National Movement and its junior partner Movement for Right
The work of EU applicants' observers in the European Parliament was talked over by candidate countries' parliament speakers and President of European Parliament Pat Cox during a meeting in Brussels. Bulgaria represented by Parliament Speaker Ognyan Gerdzh
Slovakia's President Rudolf Schuster the Bulgarian translation of his book "The Ultimatum" within the framework of his one-day working visit in Sofia. Among the speakers at the event in Sofia's Sheraton are writer Anton Donchev, history professor Andrei P
At the Copenhagen summit, Bulgaria and Romania will get "action instructions for EU accession," Enlargement Commissioner Verheugen said before the European Parliament. He pointed out that the two countries' membership in the union was "irreversible.
The sealed-bid auction for 91, 194 shares in the Black Sea resort Albena sold by the state proved a real success. The shares traded at prices ranging from BGN 9.
The management of Vratsa-Based urea maker Chimco filed a lawsuit against the National Electricity Transmission Company over BGN 123 M in rent arrears accrued in the last few years for using equipment. The move aims to stave off insolvency due to debt to N
Libyan-born Feysal Z., 54, and Syrian national Matar R, 48 were killed in a street shoot-out in Sofia late Tuesday.
The risks in draft budget 2003 and its social aspect, as well as the country's macroeconomic stability were discussed at the meeting of President Parvanov with financial experts. The debates were announced at the president's press conference during the Pr
Bulgaria replied to the U.S.
President Parvanov thanked the ambassadors of NATO member states and their colleagues from the applicants, invited at the Prague summit, for their support of Bulgaria's NATO bid. He invited a working lunch on Tuesday to mark the country's invitation for N
The UN Security Council passed Resolution 1443 witch extends the Oil-for Food Program in Iraq till December 4. The draft resolution was tabled by Bulgaria that now sits on the council as an non-permanent member, and the United Kingdom.
Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg has not made demands for Defense Minister Svinarov to claim political responsibility for Terem case, which involved a foiled attempt at illegal export of potential dual-use goods. Minister Svinarov specified that it is st
Iceland's Pharmaco, owner of pharmaceutical company Balkanpharma and the only Iceland's investor in Bulgaria, acquired 69% of Yugoslav Zdravlje pharmaceuticals. The deal is part of the company's overall investment policy for increasing its market share.
One thousand employees of Turgovishte-based defense plant TEREM have refuse to go to their work places over the last two weeks. They demand a meeting with officials of the Defense Ministry.
Cleaning workers in Sofia threaten with a strike stating December 4. Some five hundred employees of the municipal cleaning service will protest against the slash of their salaries and the laying off of workers who will be replaced by prisoners.
Kostadin Yankov, the Bulgarian student who died in an English hospital on Sunday, is 19-year-old and started studying Biochemistry at Wadham College, Oxford University in October this year, Nicky Old, Head of Press Office at the University of Oxford, conf
Tax inspectors should by protected by the law, just like police officers, Finance Minister Milen Velchev said after head of the Tax Inspection Department Nikolay Petkov had been beaten by two unidentified assaulters thirty minutes after midnight on Tuesda
Slovakia's President Rudolf Schuster arrives in Sofia on Wednesday for a one-day working visit. He will have meetings with his Bulgarian counterpart Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg.
Two Bulgarian nationals are held by the Greek authorities after they have been caught with more than half a kilogram of heroin near Thessalonica. The detainees allegedly smuggled 603 grams of the narcotic through the Promahon border checkpoint.
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