The Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Choi Sung-Hong had political consultations on the bilateral relations with the Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Petkov. Choi Sung-Hong also met Foreign Minister Passy.
The initial data from the audit, made by Deloitte & Touche show that the state does not owe any money to GORUBSO-Madan. The urgent measures to resolve the situation at GORUBSO were initiated after 10 miners went on a hunger strike, claiming the immediate
The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party /BSP/ Georgi Purvanov met the Chairman of the Macedonian Social Democratic Union /SDU/ Branko Crvenkovski in Macedonia to discuss the situation in the country. Purvanov shared with his colleague BSP’s position t
Foreign nationals holding short-term residence permit will be required to pay medical insurance from December, the Government decided. The cabinet amended the rules from the Public Health Act that said that the short-term foreign residents should pay medi
Up to 160 non-armed servicemen from the US contingent of NATO’s troops in Kossovo will have short periods of rest in Bulgaria on the principle of rotation until April 2002, the government decided. The government took a similar decision in October 2000, wh
Representatives of the Bulgarian Industrial Association /BIA/, the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Employer’s Union and the Bulgarian International Business Association supported the economic package of the Government. The new economic mea
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Two Bulgarian soccer teams advanced on Thursday night in UEFA cup after successful games, both out of the country.
The commander-in-chief of the 6th US fleet vice-admiral Gregory Johnson arrived onboard the USS La Salle in Varna to pay an official visit. Vice-admiral Johnson and the Chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Navy Vice Admiral Peter Petrov are expected to coordin
12 deputy ministers were appointed on August 23 and will start work immediately, wrote Dnevnik Daily. The Government appointed two Deputy Ministers in the Ministry of Defence, one Deputy Minister in the Ministry of External Affairs, one in the Justice Min
12 deputy ministers were appointed on August 23 and will start work immediately. They are:
The Economy Minister Nikolai Vasilev and Deputy Economy Ministers Lyubka Kachakova and Dimitur Hadjinikolov leave for a four-day official visit in Turkey at the invitation of the Turkish Industry and Trade Minister Ahmet Kenan Tanrikulu on August 24. They
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry acclaimed the North Atlantic Council decision to launch Operation Essential Harvest. NATO gave authority to General Joseph Ralston to deploy 3,500 troops to disarm the ethnic Albanian extremists in Macedonia on August 13.
Customs officials seized 11kg 900,000 worth heroin at the Kalotina checkpoint on the Bulgarian border with Yugoslavia.The smuggler, Y.
Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, Islam and Catholicism representatives will participate in a forum on changing the educational policy in the Balkans in Sofia from September 8 to September 10.The conference is part of an initiative of the Ecumenical Patriarch B
The Finance Minister Velchev and experts from the Ministry discussed the option to increase the excises on cars and cigarettes by 15%. The car excise has not been raised since 1988 and the 15% growth was covered by the inflation rate.
The Social Minister Lidia Shuleva announced that the main priorities of the Social Ministry are economic growth, higher employment and decrease in poverty.“We will work to reduce unemployment because it has reached critical minimum,” Lidia Shuleva was quo
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs prepared a draft for the establishment of a BGN 20 MLN micro crediting guarantee fund, Lidia Shuleva, Social Minister and Deputy Minister announced. The project is primarily for unemployed who want to start private
Ministry of Agriculture announced it will start selling state-owned arable land in the regions of Rousse, Targovishte and Sofia against registered compensatory vouchers. A total of 32.
BBC Monitoring Service – United Kingdom US Sixth Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Gregory Johnson gave high assessment to the assistance rendered by this country to NATO during the Kosovo crisis and to the participation of Bulgarian troops in the Kfor [Koso
TRT 2 Television Channel, Ankara [Presenter] Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz met Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg and Ahmet Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms [DPS], most of whose members are Turks.
Google Street View is again on its way through Bulgaria
Bulgaria has the Largest Gray Economy in Europe
