President Jacques Chirac's centre-right coalition trounced the left and sent the far-right right back to the political margins in a landslide election win on Sunday. The French president, who is to begin assembling his government on Monday, has promised t
Dutch-financed projects are to be discussed by Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm, who is on an official visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Minister Velchev. Cooperation between the two departments and a joint project for upg
Albena Invest Holding expects to get a large order for components for French high-speed trains, Executive Director Boiko Nedyalkov said. The components will be manufactured by Torgoterm of Kyustendil, which is owned by the holding company.
Corporate Commercial Bank’s profit for 2001 – about BGN 35 M - is to be transferred to the reserves fund, it was decided at the general meeting of the banks’ shareholders. The shareholder structure of the bank will be transformed which will allow natural
Seven consortia were shortlisted by the European Commission to bid for the consulting contract for Danube Bridge 2, spanning the river at Vidin and Calafat. The candidates will tour the construction site on July 5 and are expected to submit their offers b
State-owned Stroitelstvo I Vazstanovyavane, in consortium with two other Bulgarian companies, is among the bidders for the construction of Rijeka motorway in Croatia, the company’s Executive Director Kolyo Todorov said, quoted by Dnevnik Daily. The consor
Bilateral relations and the situation in the Middle East topped the agenda of the one-to-one meeting President Parvanov and Israel’s Foreign Minister Shimon Peres had at the VIP lounge at Sofia Airport. Peres is on a two-day official visit to Bulgaria at
Representatives of Indonesian gas company Sigasco inspected facilities at Varna shipyard end-week. During the talks of the company’s representatives and Transport Minister Plamen Petrov, scheduled for next week, the re-sale of the shipyard to the Indonesi
The destruction of each of the elements of the SS-23, SCUD and FROG missiles will be tested before the real destruction takes place, Defense Minister Nikolay Svinarov explained after his meeting with UDF leader Nadezhda Mihaylova. He pointed out that an e
The leader of rightist Union of Democratic Forces Nadezhda Mihaylova expressed her concern about the recent statements of the president on the military reform. She did that at a meeting with defense minister Svinarov.
Bulgaria’s President Parvanov leaves on official visits to Slovakia and Poland on Monday. Parvanov will be accompanied by a business delegation of representatives of sixteen Bulgarian companies.
France's anti-immigrant National Front, whose leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocked Europe by reaching the runoff round of last month's presidential election, failed to win any parliamentary seats on Sunday, an exit poll showed.
Firing along the tense India-Pakistan border eased but violence was unabated in the rebellion-hit Kashmir region Sunday, the crux of the dispute between the nuclear-armed rivals.
Audio cassettes are being distributed around southeastern Afghanistan with a recorded message from fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar saying he was safe, witnesses said on Sunday.
EUR 170,000 euros were released for a joint project of Internet provider BITEX and the Spanish companies Tragsatetec and Telefonica. The funding is to be provided by the EU program "Leonardo da Vinci.
Fifteen are the members of the new Executive Bureau with the Higher Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, it emerged after the first closed session of the council. So far, the members of the bureau were nineteen.
The Bulgarian designer Lachezar Tsvetanov, a junior at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, won the competition for creating a digital player for the needs of the library of the US Congress, the Washington Post reported. The library is planning a
The investors assess the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company at no more than USD 350 M, Grozdan Karadzhov, member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Economic Development told Info Radio. According to him, the price in the previous privatization
The political council of the ruling Simeon II National Movement approved the economic program of the government presented on Friday by Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev. In the presence of Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg, Vassilev pre
Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in Rome to witness a ceremony which makes a saint of one of Catholicism's most popular and controversial figures, Padre Pio. Pilgrims from around the world packed St Peter's Square in soaring temperatures as t
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