The state intends to cede the management of Bulgarian Telecommunications Company to a European telecommunications operator. Negotiations with a Western company are almost completed, Ministry of Transport and Communications reported.
Bulgarian King in exile Simeon II arrived back today in Sofia announcing will say his political ambitions not arealier than Friday this week. The King already said he might back one of the political forces, which will partitipate in the forthcoming genera
Duty-free zone between Rousse and Varna is to be established. The project aims at provoking interest in the traffic of commodities in the Rhine-Main-Danube directions, as well as to Turkey and the countries in the Arab peninsula.
The implementation of the Greek plan for economic recovery of Southeastern Europe will start in June. The total investment amounts to EUR 500 M.
BG and Luxembourg Foreign Ministers signed an agreement on Luxembourg funding for health care and environmental protection projects in Bulgaria. The concrete parameters of the aid package will be discussed at expert level within a few weeks.
DEM 900 000 have been allocated for reconstruction of municipal roads on the territory of the region of Shoumen. Funds have been provided by Roads Fund and will be extended in several tranches.
According to preliminary estimations the profit of LUKoil Neftochim-Burgas for Y 2000 amounts to $50 M. LUKoil plans to invest $150 M in the modernization of the refinery.
US construction company Bechtel is ready to start working on the construction site in Upper Arda right away in the case that the Oxford Consortium signs a contract with the National Electricity Company. The consortium has received confirmation from ABSA B
The ruling party UDF proposed the government to have extraordinary power to take decisions between the desolving of the parliament and the general election, to be held June 17, 2001. The abilities to take extraordinary decisions will be only for decisions
The chiefs responsible for protection of the population in case of natural disasters and major accidents in BG, Macedonia, Slovenia and Croatia signed an agreement setting up a Council for Civil-Military Emergency Planning of the countries of Southeastern
The EU will provide DEM 5 M for a program for special medical aid to the prostitutes working at high-traffic highways. Preliminary data says that at about 200 women prostitute in Southwest Bulgaria.
Israeli Dora International is ready to invest $950 M in the Plovdiv airport. The US-based Israeli company submitted the offer to the relevant municipalities.
40% of the total 221 BG companies expect that the EU integration of BG economy will make their production more competitive; 20% think that the EU markets will affect their position on the domestic market, a survey of the Association of the EU Chambers of
Austrian company Billa will invest in a hypermarket in Haskovo. Construction works will start in 3 months and will provide 120 job positions.
French company Sogea is ready to invest $ 500 000 in a project for upgrading the water and sewerage system of the city of Vratsa. The upgrading aims at eliminating hidden leaks along the pipe network.
Unexpextedly Ericsson might substitute Motorola of supplying the equipment for the second GSM operator in Bulgaria. Motorola was announced as preffred supplier by P.
Digital certificates are being introduced in the Internet payment system ePay.bg.
Petar Petrov, BG navy commander, Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Georgia, and Deputy Foreign Ministers of Russia, Romania and Ukraine signed a contract in Istanbul for the formation of a naval group for operational cooperation in the Black Sea, under the
The total amount of investments in the modernization of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and the 6th units of the Kozlodui nuclear power plant for Y 2001 will reach $380 M. The funds for the units` decommissioning and for the radioactive waste depots are already gather
Italian financial company Gibar International Ltd. is interested in buying Varna Shipyard.
New Conservative party called EKIP was officially launched today in Sofia and declared to participate in the forthcoming General elections, June 17, 2001. The leader was elected H.
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