The Social Ministry granted BGN 30,000 to a home for mentally disabled elderly women, situated in the village of Sanadinovo near Pleven (Northern Bulgaria). The money will go to buy medicines, disinfectants and new beds, and for repairs.
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`BGN 86 M from the 2002 budget will be used for employment encouragement,`Social Minister Lidia Shuleva announced. BGN 20 M more will be for micro credits.
`At present, there is no real danger for Bulgaria`s national security,` Stanimir Ilchev, Chairman of the National Assembly Commission on Foreign Policy, Defense and Security, said after a meeting at which the possibilities of the emergence of risks and ha
The statements of the parliamentary groups during the parliamentary control sessions will no longer be broadcasted, the Deputy Speaker Kamelia Kasabova announced.
Delegations of the Bulgarian and Russian foreign ministries met at the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry for a second round of talks for reciprocally easing visa regulations, the Foreign Ministry announced. The agreement creates better visa conditions for the pr
`Bulgaria and Hungary traditionally share friendly relations, which have become more active,` Hungarian Ambassador Bela Kolozsy said at a news conference in connection with the Hungarian national holiday - the 45th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution
Nikolay Vassilev, Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister, when asked to answer a MP question for the bribe, demanded from an Economy Ministry official for a privatization deal, requested from the Parliament to discuss the issue in a closed meeting. Th
`An agreement on cooperation between the Bulgarian and Macedonian Interior ministries will be updated and signed within a month and a half`, Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov said at a news conference on October 18. The agreement envisages cooperation bet
According to Foreign Investment Agency President Nikolay Marinov, the Constitution must be amended to allow foreigners to own land in Bulgaria and thus improve the domestic investment climate.
The Bulgarian Foreign Minister Passy is to participate in the enlarged European Conference on terrorism issues that will take place in Brussels.
Women leaders from ten Southeast Europe countries are expected to arrive in Sofia for a two day working meeting under the `Women in the 21st Century ` Project, starting October 20. Antonina Stoyanova, the Bulgarian President`s wife, will deliver the openi
Bulgarian medicine prices will rise by 0.5% because of the Value Added Tax introduction on medicines as of January 2002 at the request of the International Monetary Fund.
The European Commission in Brussels will finance the construction of a new mobile telecommunications network, using the Trans European Trunked Radio (TETRA) system along the border between Turkey and Bulgaria. The network will provide mobile connection be
`Heroin abusers in Bulgaria approximated 50 000 in 2000,` Daniela Aleksieva of the National Center for Addiction said at a `Face to Face with Drugs` seminar. Cocaine users are between 5 000 and 10 000, another 10 000 take amphetamines, while 20 000 more u
The three-day visit to Bulgaria of the Danish Interior Ministry delegation, headed by Police Chief Thorsten Hesselbjerg ended. On the last day of their visit, the delegation met senior officials of the Bulgarian National Police Service Directorate (NPSD).
The Bulgarian Parliament argued on October 18 about a sentence from the Media Act. The Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Ivo Atanassov tabled amendments to the Radio and Television Act, which provided that Bulgarian cable and terrestrial TV channels should bro
On October 17, the Minister of Transport Plamen Petrov promised that the contract with Deutschebank, consultant on the Bulgarian Telecom`s privatization, will be signed on October 18. The contract was not signed, though, because there are still some detai
The privatization bill, approved by the Government, foresees the split of the newly created Agency for Post-privatization Control from the Privatization Agency (PA). `This is a politically based decision,` Deputy Prime Minister Nikolay Vassilev said.
The Bulgarian Cabinet has refused to provide state guarantee to the Bulgarian State Railways (BSR) for the EUR 150 M loans extended by the European Investment Bank, Dnevnik Daily wrote. The loans will be used for the construction of a high-speed railway l
Bulgarian Agency on Insurance Supervision and Gambling will be split up into two separate bodies - State Commission on Gambling and Agency on Insurance Supervision. This is provided by the amendments to the Gambling Act, adopted by the parliament at first
The Bulgarian Yogurt is now a Protected Designation of Origin in the EU
Bulgaria is in the Top 25 Countries with the Biggest Debt Slaves
