Bulgaria’s progress in fulfilling the economic and political criteria for EU and NATO accession will top the agenda of the international conference ‘Bulgaria in Europe’, to take place at Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan on July 15, 2002. Kokkalis Foundation an
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit says he does not intend to step down, despite suffering from poor health. The 77-year-old premier, who was hospitalised twice in May and has been recovering at home since then, has faced mounting calls to resign.
More than 30 miners have been killed in a fire that raged through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine. The fire broke out early on Sunday in a conveyor section at a depth of 570 metres at the Ukraina mine in the town of Ukrainsk.
Kuwaiti-based Kharafi Group is interested in the privatisation process in Bulgaria, representatives of the Privatisation Agency told the Bulgarian News Agency. The interest was confirmed during the meeting of the technical manager of the company with the
The Bulgarian armed forces should become professional by 2006, novinite.com latest poll shows.
Bad administration may lead to loss of million of dollars from the European Union pre- accession funds, Deputy Chairman of the Union of Democratic Forces and former Chief Negotiator with EU Vladimir Kisyov said at the seminar “UDF and local governance” in
Development of ski, village and eco-tourism enjoys the support of the population from the seven municipalities in the region of the National Pirin Park, a survey called “Pirin seen through the eye of the local people” shows. Some 60% of the respondents sa
Optimistic leaders of former communist countries aspiring to join NATO looked ahead to the responsibilities of membership on Saturday, pledging to bring their democracies in line with Western standards.
The biggest machine for production of pirate CDs in Europe, imported from Bulgaria, was found by the Belgrade police July 6, together with some 750,000 CDs, Serbian news agency Beta, reported. The building has been rented by two Belgrade-based companies,
All 24 construction works under way in the resort region of Beklemeto are illegal, a check of the Troyan municipality, found out. Troyan mayor insists that the municipality is made possessor of the land because of the big interest of investors.
A list of eight questions was presented by the political movement of the Social democrats to the Energy Ministry and the State energy regulation commission. The questions will be posed for consideration to the Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg as well, Ni
The operations of Nuclear power plant Kozloduy Units 1 and 2 can be prolonged till 2009 and 2012 respectively following their upgrade, a statement of the Bulgarian Nuclear Association reads. Representatives of the association called on the politicians to
It is shocking that the Movement for Rights and Freedoms learnt from the media that the district governors of Burgas and Shumen have been dismissed, Emel Etem, Deputy leader of the movement said. The comment comes in the wake of the Cabinet’s decision at
Turkey and Bulgaria’s shared participation in the fight against international terrorism, regional security in Southeastern Europe, bilateral military cooperation will be high on the agenda of Turkey's National Defence Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu. His t
Bulgaria and Romania need and hope to receive a new roadmap for the progress of EU negotiations at the Copenhagen Summit in December. This was the opinion unanimously supported by the participants in a meeting of the friendship groups from the two countri
Heavy floods have killed at least nine people and forced more than 4,000 others to flee their homes in much of central and southern Texas. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed or simply swept away by raging rivers swollen by nearly a week of heavy rains
The Swiss Air traffic control body, Skyguide, has announced it is to reduce the number of planes in Swiss air space by 20%. This comes in the wake of last Monday's mid-air collision between a cargo jet and a Russian passenger plane in which 71 people died
At this stage, there is no divergence of opinions between the US administration and the US Congress on the matter of NATO, Foreign Minister Passy said upon his return from Riga, where accompanied the prime minister in a summit of the 10 NATO aspirant coun
The Afghan Government has set up a commission to investigate the assassination of Vice-President Haji Abdul Qadir in the capital Kabul on Saturday. At an emergency cabinet meeting, it described the killing of the senior Pashtun official as a "terrorist at
A hide store in the Yasenovets village near the town of Razgrad was sealed on suspicions of anthrax. The move came after the police in Shumen announced a local seller has bought a hide of a calf, infected with anthrax.
NATO’s large-scale enlargement is the key to a spiritually and politically undividable Europe, Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said in his address to the prime ministers at the summit of NATO applicant countries of the Vilnius Group, Latvia. In a discus
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