Four levels of information security will be introduced under the Classified Information Protection Act, approved by Parliament at second reading April 17. State secret information is marked as "Top secret", "Secret", or "Classified" in accordance with the
The subscribers of MobilTel, Bulgaria’s first GSM operator, and Globul, the second GSM operator, can exchange SMSs, since the test system has already started working. The official agreement between the two operators is yet to be signed.
Former East Timor guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao has been officially declared the winner of the fledgling state's first presidential election. The official electoral commission has announced Mr Gusmao won 83% of votes cast in Sunday's election, compared t
Bulgaria is hoping to receive an unconditional invitation to NATO at the Prague Summit, Foreign Minister Passy said at a working lunch of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria (AmCham), which unites more than 185 Bulgarian, American and internation
Bulgaria has the potential for continued high economic growth over the coming years, though at a slower rate than the one registered in 2000 - 5.8%, the European Commission forecasts in its Report on Macroeconomic and Financial Sector Stability Developmen
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Trade between Bulgaria and Jordan are expected to triple in the next six months, Deputy Economy Minister Milen Keremedchiev said upon his return from Jordan where he headed a delegation of Bulgarian businessmen for the Days of Bulgarian Business. A total
Court reporters named Neli Kutskova jurist of the year, a poll conducted in the Justice Ministry showed. The journalists who voted for current Justice Minister Anton Stankov were more.
After meeting Italian officials in Rome late on Tuesday, Marc Grossman, US Undersecretary of State reiterated his country’s support for NATO's eastward expansion. "NATO should continue to be open and expand to the new democracies of Europe which are ready
Nedko Petrov is the new Editor in Chief of rightist opposition Democracy Daily newspaper. Earlier it was announced that Lilyana Popova, former General Director of the Bulgarian National Television, is to be presented as the new Editor in Chief.
United States defence officials say one of the biggest revamps of military command structures for nearly 40 years is due to be unveiled on Wednesday. They say the changes will place a greater emphasis on home defence in the wake of the 11 September attack
Haskovo-registered Heros company became the first Bulgarian crop dusting company to set foot in Saudi Arabia, after contracting to treat over 900,00 hectares of land with pesticides as part of the Kingdom’s regular annual campaign against mosquitoes. Unde
One hundred wind-powered turbines will generate electricity near the town of Dobrich (Northeastern Bulgaria), the Dobrich regional governor Ivan Ivanov said, quoted by Dnevnik Daily. Germany’s KC Trading was contracted for the wind-power project for EUR 6
Two Bulgarian companies, Bulmak 2000 and Marikor, are among the four bidders for Skopje-based bus manufacturer FAS in an international tender. Two Macedonian companies will also vie for the plan.
Washington has called on the Palestinians to curb violence or risk losing millions of dollars in aid. President George Bush has agreed to allow the Palestinians to run their Washington office for another six months, but has said the annual $75m in aid wil
Cumulative gross foreign debt fell by 1,8% or a net USD 175,2 M for the first two months of 2002 after principal payments, preliminary figures of the central bank show. Gross foreign debt stood at USD 9,738 B at end-February.
The Bulgarian Telecommunication Company and the mobile phone operators in Bulgaria will be obliged to supply and install at their own expense infrastructure for use of the national security and defense services, amendments to the Telecommunication Act, pr
Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will pay a one-day visit to Bulgaria on April 18. The visit was agreed several months ago at a meeting Berlusconi had with Bulgaria's Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg in Trieste in November last year.
Marc Grossman, US Undersecretary of State and his Turkish counterpart Ugur Ziyal declined to name, which countries would be invited to join NATO this year. Ziyal said, though, that the United States and Turkey shared similar views on enlargement.
“It is necessary the state to take total offensive against crime” President Parvanov called for before the meeting of the National Security Consultative Council. The contradictions within and between the institutions are left in the past, President Parvan
Bulgaria’s NATO bid is considered very seriously in Brussels, Nadezhda Mihaylova, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), said after a two-hour working dinner with NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson in Brussels. The invitation for the official
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