Iraqi opposition groups are meeting in London to try to overcome their differences and map out a joint vision for a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. More than 300 delegates, including independents and representatives from more than 50 parties, will discuss plans
Navigation Maritime Bulgare and Bulgarian River Shipping Corporation were taken off the privatisation list, news agency Dnes+ reported. The Economy Commission with the Parliament took this decision after representatives of the ruling party Simeon II Natio
Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev called on the nation to "buy Bulgarian for Christmas." According to him, Bulgarian producers will be well stimulated if the BGN 200 M of Christmas bonus pensions and salaries secured by the government are spent for indige
The preferred buyer of Bulgaria's telecom - Viva Ventures, entered the privatisation procedure without being registered. Prosecutor Angel Angelov from the Supreme Administrative Prosecution said that for local Darik radio.
The decisions of the European Council in Denmark's capital are unique in their significance. Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said that in his speech at the meeting of the heads of states and governments and foreign ministers during the EU for
Hungary send back two Bulgarians sentenced for narcotics traffic. The drug smugglers were arrested in Hungary in 1999 and got 7 to 9 years behind bars.
According to Bulgaria's Parliament Speaker Ognayan Gerdzhikov, the European Commission means that Bulgaria will enter the EU on January 1 when saying "the objective is to welcome Bulgaria in 2007." "Bulgaria will be practically a member of the European Un
Illegal import of mobile phones, portable computers, monitors and computer spare parts worth BGN 300,000 was foiled by customs officers in Danube town Vidin. After a thorough search of a bus ostensibly transporting legal computer equipmentfrom Austria, th
Bulgaria will keep an eye on the negotiation that Lithuania and Slovakia hold with the EU for compensations over the closure of their nuclear power plants. The country's Euro-integrantion Minister Meglena Kuneva said that for local NET Radio.
European Commission President Romano Prodi said that the EU enlargement process would not be complete with the accession of the ten new countries in 2004. The next members will be Bulgaria and Romania, Prodi was quoted by France Press as saying.
"This is a historic moment. We achieved all that we wanted - the accession date that we wished for, the funds, the support, the understanding," Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said upon his arrival from Copenhagen on Saturday.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has resigned as chairman of a commission investigating events leading up to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States. Mr Kissinger, who had been in the job for just 16 days, had been criticised for re
A Norwegian car carrier has sunk in the English Channel after colliding with a container ship in thick fog in the early hours of Saturday. The 24 crew of the Tricolor abandoned ship for their lifeboats after the collision, which happened at around 0130GMT
Parliament Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov rallies interest for Bulgaria's investment opportunities in China. In Chinese province Guangzhou, where he took his delegation, Gerdzhikov told the leadership of the provincial parliament that he hopes for substantial
Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg said he had already made his choice about the vacancy in Bulgaria's Cabinet. A new regional development minister to replace Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Minister in resignation Kostadin Paskalev will be appointed next week
The European Union sealed a historic deal to admit 10 mostly former communist East European states Friday. The countries that will be invited to join in May 2004 are Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Cypr
Three relatives of Bulgarian medics tried in Libya visited the six detainees in their Tripoli villa. The interviews were arranges with the assistance of the Quadafi Foundation immediately after the visitors' arrival in the Libyan capital.
"The objective is to welcome Bulgaria and Romania as members of the European Union in 2007," the final document from the EC summit in Copenhagen reads. The European Union plans to boost aid to Bulgaria and Romania to support the two countries' efforts to
The Bulgarian Queen of Light was crowned by Interior Ministry Chief Secretary General Boyko Borissov on Friday night . Ambassador Ask announced earlier during the week that the winner in the Santa Lucia competition in Bulgaria is Elena Tihomirova from t
Bulgaria's Ekaterina Dafovska ranked third in a women's 7.5 km biathlon sprint on Friday.
A preliminary report by the United States on Iraq's weapons dossier has found the declaration to be full of omissions, US media report. The document contains scant new information and fails to account for missing chemical and biological weapons, according
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