Concrete measures for encouraging small and medium-sized businesses are to be presented in a short term, Gerhard Randa, Chief Executive of Bank Austria and President’s economic adviser, said after his meeting with the head of state. Among the recommendati
The defense ministers of NATO members Greece and Turkey said they support Bulgarian membership in the alliance as part of an effort to promote security in the Balkans at the international conference "NATO in the Next 50 Years: Cooperation for Security and
Following is the text of a letter, sent by Valentin Dobrev, Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Britain to The Times: The Bulgarian Jews
A landmine claimed at least 15 lives in Chechnya on Thursday just as Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Moscow that the military stage of the conflict was over. Addressing both houses of the Russian parliament, Mr Putin said that the time had come t
Israel has begun to withdraw its forces from the West Bank towns of Jenin and Nablus, the scene of heavy fighting during the past two weeks. Witnesses saw 50 tanks leaving the battered Jenin refugee camp.
Bulgaria’s contribution to the fight against drug trafficking was very highly assessed, the Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry Boyko Borissov said upon his return from Bucharest on Thursday. On Wednesday he attended a meeting of representatives of 2
Former Afghan king Zahir Shah has returned to Kabul from Italy amid tight security after 29 years in exile. Delegations from all over Afghanistan - holding flowers and pictures of the former king - greeted him at the airport, overjoyed at his return, BBC
Bulgaria’s second GSM operator Globul chose its fourth major distributor – da,da is the trade brand of the new distributor AKS International, Globul announced. The company works in the field of telecommunications services, sale of mobile phones and access
Francisco Gabriel scored in the 90th minute, just three minutes after entering the game, as Mexico beat Bulgaria 1-0 in an exhibition game April 17 at 9:00 p.m.
Some seventy residents of the Rhodopes village Orehovo blocked a section of the Smolyan-Plovdiv road. The people protested against plans for closure of the orphanage in the village.
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi declared that Italy would support Bulgaria’s NATO and EU candidatures in the decisive moment after a tete-a-tete meeting with Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg. He also said that Italy aims to become top invest
As part of the National campaign “Bulgaria Yes – This is my Nature,” Education Minister Vladimir Atanassov decreed pupils not to have classes on April 19. The pupils will clean the schoolyards and classrooms on this day.
The second national report on the Convention on Nuclear Safety was presented on April 18 in Vienna by experts from the Committee for the Use of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes, the Energy Ministry and N-plant Kozloduy. Energy Minister Milko Kovachev a
A definition of national security was given for the first time during the adoption of parts of the Classified Information Protection Act. According to this definition national security is a state of the society and the state, when the basic rights and fre
Nearly 8 kilograms of heroin were seized April 18 by the border police at Kapitan Andreevo check-point. The drug was found during a check of the international train from Turkey to Belgrade.
Bilateral economic relations and trade between the two countries, agriculture issues, as well as the agreement on the double taxation avoidance will be discussed at the ninth session of the Bulgarian-Chinese mixed committee, due to be opened today by Depu
All EU pre-accession funds are to be managed by the Finance Ministry, the Cabinet, the floor leaders and the parliamentary committees decided. Currently the financing under PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD are being managed by the Foreign, Agriculture and Regional
Bulgaria may close one or two chapters in its accession negotiations with the EU next week. One of them may be Chapter 30: Institutions, Daniel Vulchev, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on European Integration and Bulgarian Representative to the Co
Bulgaria's Interior Minister Petkanov and Turkey's Interior Minister Rustu Kazim Yucelen signed an agreement on coastal security between Bulgaria and Turkey in Ankara. The minister is on a three-day visit to Turkey at the invitation of his counterpart Rus
A US fighter plane in Afghanistan has accidentally bombed a group of Canadian troops, killing four soldiers and injuring eight others. The incident, which occurred during a routine training exercise, happened near the southern city of Kandahar, 14 kilomet
US President George W Bush has insisted that the Middle East peace mission of his Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was not a total failure. Mr Powell ended his 10-day visit on Wednesday without clinching a ceasefire or securing a full Israeli withdrawal
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