Ten life insurance companies operating in Bulgaria reported an increase in gross premium revenue in 2001. Official figures show that the revenue rose from BGN 44,25 M in 2000 to BGN 87,24 M last year.
The M&A market in Bulgaria is still in the early stages of its development, largely owing to slower privatisation and slower economic growth, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Bulgaria Country Report claims. It is part of PricewaterhouseCoopers'Central & Eastern Eu
The deadline for submitting offers for the purchase of 12,000 tons of unsold tobacco is to be extended till end-April, that’s by three more working days, Georgi Popov, Managing Director of Bulgartabac Holding, said. The sale price is set at USD 20 M and t
The trial of four men accused of the murder of U.S.
An improvised Palestinian military court on Thursday sentenced four Palestinians to prison for the assassination last year of Israel's tourism minister, a Palestinian security official said. The four were sentenced by a tribunal in Palestinian leader Yass
A guarantee agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was ratified by Parliament under a credit agreement for a EUR 41 M loan between the National Electricity Transmission Company and the bank. The loan is to finance the project
The range of projects funded by SAPARD, the European Commission special accession program for agriculture rural development, will expand till end-year, Deputy Agriculture Minister Andriyana Tosheva said. An intermediary evaluation on the implementation of
The registration papers of Simeon II National Movement were submitted to Sofia City Court April 25. Under the Political Parties Act the Court will discuss at an open meeting the registration documents in a one-month period after they are deposited.
Local affiliates of accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP in Central Europe and the Balkans said Wednesday they were merging with rival Ernst & Young, AP reported. The Andersen practices in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania a
US President George W. Bush urged Bulgaria on Tuesday to redouble its efforts to be admitted to Nato during the alliance's November summit, visiting Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg said.
I hope Bulgaria will join NATO because the conditions for this are very favourable, Republican Senator John McCain said after his meeting with Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg on the last day of his visit in the United States. Among the conditions favour
Argentina's President Eduardo Duhalde has said that his country's only way out of its worst economic crisis is to live up to its international agreements and continue seeking help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He was talking after signing wh
The man who headed the Yugoslav army under President Slobodan Milosevic has left Belgrade to face charges at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. General Dragoljub Ojdanic, who is accused of war crimes in Kosovo, is on a list of 23 people ordered to surr
The Israeli army says one of its undercover units has shot dead five Palestinian policemen near the West Bank city of Hebron, hours after an Israeli incursion into the area. But Palestinian security sources dispute the figure, saying only one of the men d
Bulgaria and Belarus may consider the introduction of "open economic space" regulations as is the case between Belarus and Russia, Belarus Ambassador Alyaksandr Pyatrov said at a a roundtable “Belarus: Promising trade partner" organized by the Bulgarian C
More than 60 Bulgarian and foreign IT companies, including BTC, Microsoft Bulgaria, Siemens, Ericsson, Specter Net, Intracom and Orbitel take place in the third BAIT Internet EXPO Telecomex. The event was opened by President Parvanov and will run till Apr
Red-tape, corruption, numerous licensing and authorization requirements and fuzzy points in key economic laws are some of the obstacles German investors in Bulgaria face, which were enumerated at the working meeting of the Roland Berger consulting firm wi
Securing Canada’s support for Bulgaria’s NATO bid and boosting bilateral relations is the aim of Foreign Minister Passy’s visit to Canada April 23-27. This is the first visit of a Bulgarian foreign minister to Canada after the two countries established di
Under the sell-off plan of the State Savings Bank the Cabinet is expected to transfer 75 percent, it owns in the State Savings Bank to the Bank Consolidation Company (BCC), the government body that manages the privatisation of state banks. The operation i
No cases of infections with the unidentified virus that hit Greece and claimed the lives of five persons there have been registered in Bulgaria, Health Minister Bozhidar Phinkov said. The Health care Ministry asked for more information about the mysteriou
Bulgaria’s preparations to join NATO received the thumbs up from the North Atlantic Council, Foreign Minister Passy said after a meeting of the Council in Brussels. A report on the implementation of Bulgaria’s membership action plan was approved at the me
UN Happiness Report: Bulgaria's Astonishing Leap in Rankings
Bulgaria: 3 Regions With Lowest Life Expectancy - EU Report 2022
