Sofia city council will discuss on Thursday a proposal to raise car parking fees and pre-paid subscription fees for parking lots in Bulgaria’s capital center. The road traffic safety committee with the council has proposed that the fee for parking in the
"We are to replace those of the commercial attaches who are not working well," Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nikolay Vassilev said at a meeting with participants in the "Vinaria 2002" exposition in Plovdiv during the weekend. He proposed the
Former foreign minister and United Democratic Forces floor leader Nadezhda Mihaylova will run for leader of the Union of Democratic Forces. The party’s newspaper “Democratziya announces that in its February 11th issue.
34 further detainees captured in Afghanistan have arrived at the US Naval Base in Guant?namo Bay, in Cuba. Following US President Bush's announcement Thursday that former Taliban fighters would be treated according to the Geneva Convention, US military pe
I am not satisfied with the way the non-confidence vote against the Cabinet was debated, Ekaterina Mihaylova, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), said. She described the behaviour of MPs from the ruling coalition as “arrogant and aggressive”.
Bulgarian legislation provides for an efficient fight against money laundering, Deputy Parliamentary Speaker Kameliya Kassabova said upon her return from Paris, where she took part in the conference on money-laundering fight. She suggested that some amend
Bulgaria's cosmetic company Rubella seems to be one of the largest local investors, Krassimir Mitev, Executive director, said. The company has already invested some BGN 7.
The third round table with Bulgaria’s government, organized and hosted by the Economist conferences, will take place on March 5, 6 in Sheraton Hotel. The forum will take place behind closed doors, except for the session of Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Cobur
Extracted from AFP The UN Development Programme (UNDP) aims to create 5,000 jobs in Bulgaria to help cut the unemployment toll which afflicts 17% of the impoverished country's workforce.
The recovery in the world economy has already begun, and the US and Europe can expect to see growth strengthening as the year wears on, according to the finance ministers and central bankers who met in Ottawa at the weekend for the meeting of the Group of
Nine-fold Olympic champion - Carl Lewis landed on Sofia airport in the afternoon of February 9. His visit in Bulgaria is connected with his engagement in the shots of the fiction thriller “Trapper of Extra-Terrestrials”.
The Argentine government plans to shut down its embassy in Bulgaria, EFE agency reported. The move is part of a huge plan under which the cash-starved Argentine government would close up to a third of its embassies and consular posts in an effort to cut c
Different aspects of the rehabilitation plan of Nuclear Power plant Kozloduy were discussed by more than 50 representatives from nine European countries in the three-day seminar of WANO (World Association of Nuclear Power Generation Organizations). Expert
The Prosecutor’s office acquitted an Israeli citizen, charged with fraud of Bulgarian banks. Meir Ovadia was the main suspect in the embezzlement of more than USD 1 BLN from Bulgarian banks.
Bulgaria and Romania’s NATO bids will be discussed in Istanbul, February 12, by the Foreign Ministers of Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania within the framework of a joint forum of the European Union and the Islam Conference Organization. A meeting betw
For the second successive week buyers of oil-yielding sunflower-seed did not withdraw. Brokers explain the intensified demand with the poor harvest this year.
A pair of suspected Palestinian gunmen killed two Israelis and wounded at least five other people Sunday outside an Israeli army base near the southern town of Beersheba, Israeli rescue services said. Israeli security forces killed both gunmen.
A major clean-up operation is under way after a cargo ship carrying more than 700 tonnes of fuel ran aground off the coast of New Zealand. Environmental teams have begun rescuing wildlife affected by oil leaking from the ship, a few hundred metres from th
A man has gone on a shooting spree in South Africa after a row with his girlfriend, killing her and at least nine other people before turning the gun on himself. Police said the killings happened in a black district in the port city of East London, 900 ki
Protesting Greek farmers called off a two-week campaign, which caused traffic delays along the Bulgarian-Greek border because of intermittent blocks of Greece's main highway and border-access roads. Farmers are demanding higher subsidies for cotton and ot
Gen. Boyko Borissov, Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry, confirmed that Ivan Chobanov is the Cabinet's candidate for director of National Service Security.
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