Interior Minister Georgi Petkanov met with senior officials of Bulgarian media interested in the question of extradited would-be migrants to Norway and Belgium. Petkanov said he is very concerned with the danger of a possible damage to Bulgaria`s image be
The Bulgarian Bureau of Financial Investigation and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network with the US Treasury Department agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding and information exchange. The agreement was reached during the two-week working visit
Consumer confidence peaked to minus 18.9% in July 2001, the highest figure since July 1995, the National Statistical Institute reported.
`DEVIN PLC. started exporting mineral water from the Devin region (the Rodophe mountains, Southern Bulgaria) to Greece`, the company`s Commercial Director Valentin Ignatov announced.
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The new Supervisory Board of the Privatization Agency will be summoned immediately after the promulgation of the parliament`s decision, said for Standart Daily Petko Nikolov, elected from the NMS II quota. The publication in the `State Gazette` is expecte
Former foreign minister Stanislav Daskalov will be Bulgaria`s new ambassador to the EU, sources from the Simeon II National movement said. He will replace Antoaneta Primatarova, who resigned after UDF lost the elections.
Deputy ministers of all ministries will be appointed by the end of the week, the National Radio announced quoting the press center of the Social Ministry. On Tuesday the parliamentary group of the King`s movement will agree the future appointments of depu
Nearly BGN 1 M of investment have been attracted to the development of cultural tourism in Veliko Turnovo as a result of the 4th International Folk Festival, held here between June 30 and July 7. The Festival is under the auspices of the UNESCO-affiliated
`A leading Italian banking group is interested in buying Bulgarian insurance companies`, Italian Deputy Industry Minister Giuseppe Galatti told Bulgarian Deputy PM and Economy Minister Nikolai Vassilev at a meeting. The Italian business circles have great
`Bulgaria is allowed to export cattle, sheep and goats to European Union member states in pursuance to Decision 2001/600/EC of the European Commission, published Friday`, the Ministry of Agriculture announced. Some restrictive measures concerning livestoc
The Bulgarian Telegraph Agency Over the last ten years half of the applicants seeking admission to Bulgaria`s largest and oldest higher educational establishment, the St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, have flunked their entrance exams in Bulgarian
The possible participation of Japanese funds in providing money to the project for a trunk-road connecting Sofia and Nis, Yugoslavia, was a subject to discussion between Deputy PM and Regional Development Minister Paskalev and Japanese Ambassador to Sofia
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom Text of report in English by Czech news agency CTK
`The pontoon bridge over the Danube river at Novi Sad will be opened each night from October`, Danail Nedyalkov, general director of the Danube Commission, announced. In this way the river traffic will be gradually alleviated.
`An improved environmental impact assessment on the Sutka project is to be submitted to the Ministry of Environment ??? ?????? in September`, the company`s manager Kostadin Mugev announced after a general shareholders meeting. The project concerns buildin
President Stoyanov started his election campaign in `de facto` this weekend in the Black sea cost city of Burgas after a group of his supporters officially raised his candidacy for the forthcoming elections. The president visited a naval military base and
The election of Privatization agency supervisory board last week might cause a dispute between so called young and old economists in Simeon II National movement, the party that won 120 seats of altogether 240 in Bulgarian parliament mid-June, Dnevnik dail
The Interior Ministry, headed by Yordanov and controlled by ex-PM Kostov, kept 10 bugged rooms in the `Samokov` hotel in the resort of Borovets, well-informed sources from the IM told `Standart`.
US ambassador to Bulgaria Richard Miles met businessmen and farmers from the Zavet municipality, a region with ethnically mixed population. He talked with participants in a Peace Corps project for
12 CEOs of Korean small and medium-sized enterprises fluent in the IT sector arrived on a five-day visit to Bulgaria to study the opportunities for trade and development of joint projects with Bulgarian partners. The delegation will visit Sofia, Veliko Ta
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
