The number of deaths confirmed by Madrid authorities reached 200 Saturday, as grieved Spaniards are bracing up for tomorrow's elections. Thirty-five of the victims are foreign citizens, which includes a Bulgarian woman.
Over 25,000 people were pouring, under the heavy rain, onto Madrid's streets hours before the fixed time of 7 p.m.
Bulgaria ranks among the top seven tourist destinations, according to a survey by the TUI, the biggest European tour operator. The news broke just a day before the Tourism Expo Berlin 2004 kicks off on Saturday.
Serbia has marked the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic with renewed commitments to fight organised crime and push ahead with pro-Europe reform. Memorial plaques were laid outside the government building where Mr D
The bodies of crewmembers of Hera ship, which sunk near Bosphorus strait on February 13, were found, officials from Civil Defense Service broke on Friday. The news came from the Turkish rescuers who are searching for weeks now any wreckage and body from
In an expected majority of votes, Bulgaria's Parliament rejected Friday the non-confidence vote tabled by left-wing party earlier this week. With 126 votes contra the proposal, the ruling majority of Simeon II National Movement, the National Movement for
EUBusiness The new Romanian government is set to run a tightrope in the coming months between keeping the European Union sweet over reform while convincing hard-pressed Romanians that sweeping structural changes are needed, analysts said on Thursday.
BBC In the wake of the deadly attacks on commuter trains in Madrid, it is still unclear who is responsible.
The Olympic torch relay is set to trot around all five continents for the first time ever. Thirty-three cities in 26 states outside Greece from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the two Americas are included in the Olympic route, which replicates the O
Bulgarian railway employees brace up for possible violence, after yesterday terrorists targeted Madrid's train network.
Macedonia is going to submit its application for EU membership on March 22, Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva announced on Friday. The statement responded to yesterday's urge of an EU official that Macedonia hurry up with the official submission.
Terror fears in Madrid seem to have spread to Sofia, after the French consulate in the Bulgarian capital was shut down. Earlier today, employees there received a signal that a bomb had been planted somewhere in the building.
"The Spanish government and the Spanish police forces still believe that ETA is the main suspect for Thursday's rail blasts in Madrid. They tried to do the same thing already a couple of times in the past two months," Spain's Ambassador to Sofia Jose Ange
Another Bulgarian citizen has been injured in Thursday's train bloodshed in Madrid, Bulgarian Ambassador to Spain Vasilii Takev told Bulgarian news agency BTA. Adrian Andrianov is hospitalized with a second-grade burns in the Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Ho
Bulgaria will see a decrease of the corporate tax in 2005, Finance Minister Milen Velchev announced in an online chat. The corporate tax will be reduced from 19,5% to 15%.
Bulgarian authorities expressed content with the constantly increasing number of foreign tourists. The country's efforts to become a desired holiday destination have brought more than six million foreign visitors last year.
Austria's Nabucco consortium has started searches over the construction of a petrol pipeline passing through Bulgaria. The registaration papers for the forming of Nabucco Company Pipeline Study GmbH have already signed.
There are people from eleven countries among fatalities of the Madrid explosions, Spain's premier said. Bulgaria was unlucky to be among those countries, with a woman aged 32 among the dead.
The Bulgarian woman who died in Madrid blasts had a daughter at the age of twelve, it became known a day after the tragedy. Tinka Paunova, 32, worked as a babysitter at a Spanish family's home.
Dessislava Borissova, 22, a Bulgarian student in Madrid has managed to jump out of one of the trains that exploded on Thursday, Bulgarian National Radio reported. Dessislava explained that her train was delayed at the rail station before Atocha where a s
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