Preliminary offers for the privatisation of Bulgaria’s State Insurance Institute DZI have to be submitted today by 5:30 pm. Afterwards a decision will be taken which of the candidates will be allowed to the second stage of the DZI privatisation procedure.
The Sofia City Council approved a reduction of the municipality budget of about BGN 10,5 M due to the lower garbage tax. The budget for 2001 was thus reduced to BGN 368 M.
Over 500 long-term unemployed will be hired to work for three-four months on the “Beautiful Bulgaria” project in the town of Stara Zagora.
President Parvanov awarded Professors Boris Spassov and Zhivko Stalev the Order of the Stara Planina, First Class, for their contribution to the juridical science in Bulgaria.
The promise and peril of NATO's "southern dimension" strategy are on display as Romania's elite alpine military unit goes through its paces on the sheer face of a snowy mountain an hour's drive north of Bucharest. The unit's commanders explain in fluent
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suggested the United States lead a regional conference to find peace for the Middle East. Mr Sharon said US Secretary of State Colin Powell - who is continuing diplomatic efforts in Lebanon and Syria - had supported
The South Korean Government said an Air China plane which crashed into a hillside in South Korea on Monday killing 115 people had been blown off course by strong winds. Thirty-nine people survived the crash about eight kilometres (five miles) north of the
The question of Bulgaria's membership in NATO does not stand in the way of Bulgarian-Russian relations, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy said. He stated this during the celebrations of the 11th anniversary of The Atlantic Club of Bulgaria and the
Bulgaria’s readiness for NATO entry is to be discussed by Nadezdha Mihaylova, leader of the rightist opposition Union of Democratic Forces and former foreign minister (1997 – 2001), and NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson on April 15 in Brussels. The in
US energy company AES, which was contracted by Bulgaria to build a new 670 MW coal-fired unit at Maritsa Iztok 1 thermal power plant might draw an investor that would help finance the project against acquiring an equity stake, Dnevnik Daily repored, quoti
The Ministry of Economy demanded a detailed economic analysis on the Chimco fertilizer plant to be submitted in ten days, Pari Daily reported. Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev required an analysis about the market indicators and
Fertilizer plant Neochim, based in the town of Dimitrovgrad is to suspend 80 percent of its operations for a general overhaul. The overhaul will start 40 days before planned.
A new, more modern and business-looking layout of novinite.com was launched April 15 in an effort to improve the services of the site and respond to the needs of its numerous readers.
Microsoft and LUKoil Bulgaria will assist the Cabinet in the training of state administration employees, State Administration Minister Dimitur Kalchev announced April 13 before he left for Seattle, USA. Minister Kalchev and Valentin Zlatev, LUKoil Bulgari
Bulgaria’s bid for NATO entry is considered to be very successful, Defense Minister Svinarov said upon his return from the United States and Canada where he was on an official visit. The two countries still have not taken a final political decision on NAT
The Balkans are the crossroads of international crimes and terrorism, Erhard Busek, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, said at a forum of the European People’s Party in Thessaloniki. According to him the huge amount of arms
Greece wants the trans-Balkan oil pipeline Burgas -Alexandroupolis to be constituted by private companies only, while Bulgaria insists that an interstate company is set up, Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development Minister Kostadin Paskalev said. He
It is acceptable for a prime minister to be leader of a party, novinite.com latest poll shows.
The officially announced 2001 financial results of the public companies set the pace of the trade on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange last week. Though expected the profits of Sunny Beach and Sopharma moved the activities on the market to a great extent.
BBC Monitoring Service The presidents of North Atlantic Council from Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania issued a joint statement on Saturday [13 April] calling support for membership of Bulgaria and Romania to NATO.
Nine Bulgarian companies were awarded at the business exposition Partners expo in Pleven, which closed April 14. Furniture-maker Transprogres 68 was awarded the Wings of Success statuette.
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