The Bulgarian President Petur Stoyanov said that the international patent system has to be reformed so that it becomes accessible for inventors and companies of the transition economy states. Stoyanov is in Geneve where he attended a session of the Politi
Officials from the Environmental Ministry met representatives of 12 large companies that apply for permits for pollution prevention and control. LUKoil Neftochim Burgas, Kremikovtzi, Neochim, Orgachim, Promet, Stomana Industry and Sofia Med have applied f
Employers, banks, insurance and educational institutions will inquire into citizens` personal data only after registration and permission by a commission. This is provided by the new protection of personal data bill, adopted by the Bulgarian parliament on
The Bulgarian bank Bulbank is the most profitable bank in Central and Eastern Europe for 2000. A Standard&Poors`annual survey of the 100 largest banks in the region showed that.
A bomb exploded near a kindergarten and a secondary school in Pleven, Northern Bulgaria, around lunch time on October 11. It killed one man, according to the police.
The world wrestling championships scheduled for New York last month but postponed after the terrorist attacks will now take place in Bulgaria and Greece, the international wrestling federation announced. FILA, wrestling`s world governing body, said the fr
`BGN 10, 194 M were granted from the government for the financing of the presidential elections, the Minister of the States Administration Dimitur Kalchev announced. 6, 380 M are to be used for the first round of he elections.
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`The Bulgarian Government intends to privatize the Bulgartabac holding as a whole entity, not in separate parts, `the Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev announced. He explained that it is obligatory to sell 51% of the holding`s capital t
The journalists who cover the work of the government were not allowed for the first time in the building of the government for the beginning of the regular meeting of the ministers. The operators and the photo reporters could not take, on their own, proto
`14 US and NATO transport aircraft flew over Bulgaria on October 10th, `Nova TV reported, quoting General Stefan Popov, Chief of the Bulgarian Air Forces. The aircraft flew over the country in connection with the decision of the Government to grant access
Romanian Interior Minister Ioan Rus proposed that the Bulgarian and Romanian Interior Ministries cooperate and set up unified border teams to avoid double checks on the Bulgarian and on the Romanian border. That was announced at a news conference after a
BTA News Agency IFC, part of the World Bank Group, unveiled in Washington its 2001 report, which contains information on Bulgaria, Deutsche Welle cited San Francisco correspondent Lada Trifonova as saying.
The US ambassador to Bulgaria Richard Miles granted over USD 250,000 humanitarian aid to 17 Bulgarian non-profit organizations, Dnevnik Daily wrote. Representatives of the hospitals, orphanages and schools which, will be financed by the US donation, atten
Deputy Prime Minister Vassilev will clarify on the issue with the USD 2 M bribe, asked from an Economy Ministry official. He will explain that during the parliamentary control session.
The parliament approved the amendment to the Criminal Code according to which those officials who granted `bad credits` will be imprisoned from one to ten years. 115 MPs voted in favor of the amendment.
The Regional Governor of Pleven Nikolay Marinov required the chief prosecution to investigate two deals, signed by the former agriculture minister Ventsislav Varbanov. Marinov said that there were obvious indications of corruption in the deals.
Representatives of the German companies RWE and Stadtwerke expressed interest in the completion of the construction of the Haskovo thermal power station /TPP/ and the urban central heating piping network. The project was frozen years ago.
Tourist agencies and hotels that participate in the first Tourism 2001 Fair in Sofia complained of a reservations decrease after the start of the war in Afghanistan. `Some of the tourists cancelled their holidays because of flight security reasons, `the B
Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev said that the basic points of the Government`s economic program were ready in August and that at the moment the Ministers work on concrete timeframes. The fact that the program has not yet been a
The presidential candidate of `Coalition For Bulgaria`Georgi Purvanov invited incumbent President Petur Stoyanov, who is running for re-election as an independent candidate, to a debate on National Television or in Sofia`s National Palace of Culture befor
Google Street View is again on its way through Bulgaria
Bulgaria has the Largest Gray Economy in Europe
