AP WorldStream via COMTEX A senior European Union official urged Bulgaria to revamp its state administration and judiciary if it hopes to join the organization by 2007.
ABSTRACED from M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX Petko Draganov, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, said the attack of 11 September had been an attack against all of humanity.
The NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson arrives in Bulgaria on October 4 for the summit of the ten NATO applicant countries that will take place on October 5. The Bulgarian President Stoyanov will meet Lord Robertson at the airport.
`The issue of NATO expansion is not as important as the creation of a community that shares common values,` Bulgarian President Stoyanov said at a news conference, quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio. President Stoyanov added that he is to reiterate hi
The Bulgarian candidature for non-permanent membership in the Security Council is to be voted on October 8 at the General Assembly of the UN. That was announced by the Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Elena Poptodorova.
General Anguel Marin will be nominated for leftist Vice President, was decided at a plenary session of the Higher Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The delegates approved the candidature of Marin with 87 votes in favor.
The Bulgarian National Statistical Institute released prliminary data on the last count of the Bulgarian population from March, 2001. The results are from a 2% from the surveyed or 196,000 from the Bulgarians.
`Bulgarian breweries insist that the Bulgarian Government increases beer excise duty smoothly, `the Union of Bulgarian Brewers said. The Union proposed 20% to 26 % annual rise of the excise duty until 2006.
`A project of the Bulgarian government for EUR 8 M, financed by the Phare Programme will be launched next week,` Hermann Hagspiel, adviser at the Delegation of the European Commission said. The main purpose of the project is to raise the quality of small
`Local self-government and the financial decentralization of municipal budgets are USAID`s most important projects in Bulgaria,` the Agency`s director for Bulgaria Debra McFarland said after a meeting with Finance Minister Milen Velchev. At the meeting, t
Several major banks, including the World Bank, expressed interest in providing money for a project for processing of waste to extract lead and zinc in the Lead and Zinc plant in Kurdzhali, Southern Bulgaria. The project will cost about USD 10 M, Economic
Christoph Zoepel, Minister of State at the German Foreign Ministry is expected to arrive for political talks in Bulgaria, the German Embassy in Sofia announced. Zoepel will attend a conference on `The Contribution of New Democracies to Euro-Atlantic Secur
`The decision of NATO member states to support Washington will undoubtedly have a impact on the behaviour of the countries wishing to join the Alliance,` Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Elena Poptodorova said. Poptodorova said that as comment on the statemen
`The future of the political agreement between the Movement for Rights and Freedoms and the Simeon II National Movement is not threatened,` Plamen Panayotov, leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Simeon II National Movement said, quoted by Info Radio.
The Turkish Ceylan Holding threatened to start legal proceedings in the Paris Court of Arbitration in case that Bulgaria suspends the construction works of the Gorna Arda hydropower complex in the Rhodopes mountain. There is an escape clause in the joint
John Munnery will be the new CEO of the Macedonian Telecoms Company, Mekedonski Telekomunikacii AD ( Mak Tel.) Munnery used to be Chief Executive Director of the first Bulgarian mobile phone operator Mobikom.
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the coalition partner of the ruling Simeon II National Movement, will nominate in three days separate candidate for the presidential elections that will take place on November 11. The candidate will not be any party`s
`The amendments to the Radio and Television Act might lead to an unprecedented conflict with the European Union and even to re-opening of the Culture and Audio-video Policy chapter from the accession negotiations with the European Union,` sources from the
`Bulgaria should become a EU member, `Eneko Landaburu, European Commission`s Director General of Enlargement said. Landaburu is on a two-day official visit to Bulgaria.
`The Bulgarian metallurgical plant Kremikovtzi will reduce its output with 15%,`sources from the company announced. The unfavorable situation in the international markets prompted that move.
`An expert Council of the Environment Ministry has approved a project for building a new skiing center in the Rhodopes mountains called Perelik,` Atanas Kadjebov, Chief Architect of the district center of Smolyan said. Perelik will be the second skiing ce
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