The six Bulgarian medics accused of intentionally infecting with HIV about 400 Libyan children are well and their condition remains unchanged, their Libyan lawyer Osman Bizanti told the Bulgarian News Agency on Monday. He met with the Bulgarians early las
The Finance Ministry announced that it will offer BGN 20 M of 12-month discount T-bills at an auction next Monday. The issue will mature on June 26 next year.
Three consortia and four companies placed offers to build a motorway tunnel under the Bulgarian-Greek border that is to link the towns of Gotse Delchev and Drama, Dnevnik Daily reported quoting sources from the Regional Development Ministry. Greec and the
The Sofia City Council banned on Monday at the initiative of Mayor Sofianski the construction of mobile petrol and gas filling stations and car washes until September 30, 2002 to check compliance with land ownership regulations and building permits. The c
Twelve out of the nineteen invited investment companies and banks submitted offers for consultant in the privatization of State Savings Bank DSK before the deadline on June 17 expired. Among them are ABM AMPO, Commerzbank, JP Morgan, BNP Parisbas, Raiffe
Slovakia is interested in projects in the energy sector, railway infrastructure, Danube Bridge 2 spanning over Vidin and Calafat and privatization projects on the Black Sea coast, Slovakia’s President Rudolf Schuster said after his meeting with President
The Privatization Agency is to announce whether the five bidders for Bulgartabac have submitted the deposit of BGN 5 M for the second stage of the competition on June 21. The term for submitting the deposit was extended from June 10 till June 14.
The Safe Use of the Nuclear Energy Inspection started checks of the readiness of the 3 unit of the N- plant to be exploited after the planned annual repair of the unit, when the system for localization of the damages was modernized. The check is to end on
Czech President Vaclav Havel asked center-left leader Vladimir Spidla Monday to form a new government, a move which would bolster the small ex-Communist country's drive toward European Union membership. Spidla's ruling Social Democrats, strongly pro-EU, w
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned Israel's building of a security fence along its West Bank border as an "act of racism" Monday, and rejected fierce U.S.
The ambition of the government is to turn the dream of the Bulgarians for a better life into reality, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg told journalists on the occasion of exactly one year since his government stepped into office. According to him, th
AP Troops from 15 nations were set to open military exercises on a former Soviet air base in Georgia on Monday under the aegis of NATO's Partnership for Peace, underlining the Caucasus nation's efforts to bring itself closer to the western alliance.
The willingness for boosting bilateral relations with Israel, opportunities for cooperation in infrastructure, energy and agriculture projects, and prospects for solving the Middle East conflict topped the agenda of Foreign Minister Passy and Israeli Fore
The European Commission notes that there is a big progress in the reforms of the judicial system in Bulgaria. Milena Damyanova, representative of the EC delegation in Sofia stated that at a round table on the progress in the fulfilling of the political cr
Nearly 4500 unemployed will be trained and another 1500 re-trained under the Professional training project, financed with EUR 5 M by PHARE program, Dimitris Kourkoulas, Head of Delegation of the European Commission, said. The Bulgarian side will provide E
More than EUR 7,5 M will be invested for the supply of 45 new single busses in a public procurement to be assigned by Sofia municipality council. The money will be earmarked from EUR 35 M of loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development a
Chief Prosecutor Nikola Filchev assigned a check of the reports on state-owned Air Traffic Services Authority to a group of prosecutors from the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office. The results of the check are to be announced within a week.
In Bulgaria, liver transplantation operations are still not made. Liver transplantation operation abroad costs DEM 180,000 - a too big sum for an ordinary Bulgarian family.
AP Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Monday that efforts for a political agreement with the Palestinians must continue even amid construction of an electronic fence along the West Bank to halt incursions and suicide bombings by Palestinian milit
Bank of the year is to be announced for the fourth time by Pari Daily at a ceremony at Hilton Sofia June 26. The winner – Bank of the year 2001 – will be awarded a prestigious certificate and a work of plastic art.
Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev was interrogated for more than hour at Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office on “Soiuzcontract Tabac” allegations of bribe against Bulgartabac Managing Director. Upon leaving the building Minister Vassi
Google Street View Cars Return to Bulgaria for Major Mapping Update
Housing Prices Soar in Bulgaria’s Major Cities as Demand and Supply Strain Increase
