“There is no news in the news that came from Laeken, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman commented. On December 15, at the meeting of the EU heads that Bulgaria will not enter EU with the first wave of countries.
67% of the members of the 44th Congress of the Bulgarian Socialist Party cast their secret vote in favor of Sergey Stanishev, who was nominated by President Elect Parvanov who resigned from the party leadership position on December 15. Rumen Ovcharov got
The EU leaders drafted a declaration saying all 12 nations currently negotiating to join the bloc meet the criteria for membership, apart from Romania and Bulgaria at the meeting of the EU state and governmental heads in Laeken, Belgium. The document po
Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing is to head a reform group in the run up to the European Union's expansion. D'Estaing, will hold discussions with more than 100 representatives of governments, the European Parliament, national legislatures
Finance Minister Milen Velchev and World Bank Country Director for Bulgaria Andrew Vorkink discussed a new three-year World Bank Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Bulgaria. Under the program, Bulgaria is expected to receive a USD 500 M loan for struct
Unit Four of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant will start work on December 26, following scheduled repairs and refuelling, Executive Director Yordan Kostadinov announced.
BY Martina Iovcheva In order to mark the coming Christmas holidays, BG EUforiya, Bulgarian Party Club in New York City organized for second year in a row a special party for the Bulgarian children living in New York City at the Mezzo-Mezzo Art caf? in As
Bulgarian – Ukrainian conference “South and East European countries and their way to European and Euro - Atlantic integration’ opened on December 15 at Sheraton Hotel. It is organized by the Atlantic club in Bulgaria, Ukraine’s embassy in Bulgaria and “ K
AFX Virotec International Ltd said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Montgomery Watson Harza ("MWH"), which is based in Brussels, Belgium.
Antonio Dushepeev was elected Chairman of the municipality leadership of the Union of Democratic Forces in Burgas.
Bulgaria is 7th in the world on the number of older people over 65 in its population, according to a survey conducted by an American Institute. Italy leads with 18,1%, followed by Greece, Sweden, Japan, Spain, Belgium and Bulgaria.
Vlado Gradev who has been till very recently Associate Professor in the Sofia University “ St. Kliment Ohridski, ” lecturing on culture an religion of the post-modern world, will be Bulgaria’s new ambassador to Vatican, starting from December 15.
A two day conference on “Terrorism and the new world order” started in Burgas on December 15. US Ambassador to Bulgaria Richard and former Bulgarian President Zhelio Zhelev sent their greeting speeches to the participants in the conference.
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The United States on Saturday used its veto power to kill a U.N.
BGN 47 M were invested by OMV in Bulgaria in 2002, the manager of the company announced. On December 14, he opened the 50th petrol station of the Austrian concern in Bulgaria.
According to Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, during the mandate of President-elect Parvanov Bulgaria will enter EU and NATO. “We hope that you will manage to transform the presidential institution the way you managed to change
I hope to manage to meet on Tuesday the Bulgarian medics in the prison Judeyda, Vladimir Sheytanov, the lawyer of the medics, accused of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV virus, said for Darik Radio. On December 22, the People’s court of Lib
Israeli warplanes struck Gaza City for the third straight night Friday, targeting Palestinian security facilities that Israel said were used for terrorist activities.
Opposition fighters, aided by U.S.
The space shuttle Endeavour is to change its departure course from the international space station on Saturday to give the shuttle time to fire its jets to boost the station away from some Russian space junk.
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