Parliament obliged the Finance Minister to report by April 30 on the state of Bulgaria’s customs. The report should include the measures recommended by Britain’s company Crown Agents in its recent analysis.
The Balkans are the last part of the puzzle, which will make the ideal of a whole and free Europe come true, Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said after meeting Foreign Minister Passy. Minister Passy gave her the honorary “Golden Laurel bra
According to provisional figures, the Lufthansa Group posted an operating profit of 20 million euros in the 2001 business year.
In Argentina, the peso has slipped to a record low amid gloomy predictions that the country's worst ever economic crisis will deepen further this year. Until devaluation in January, the peso was tied to the US dollar at one-to-one for a decade.
King Abdullah of Jordan has warned US Vice-President Dick Cheney that a US attack on Iraq could seriously destabilise the region. In a statement released by the royal palace following a meeting with Mr Cheney in the Jordanian capital Amman, King Abdullah
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has won a fifth term in office amid accusations of ballot irregularities and ruling party violence. He defeated rival Morgan Tsvangirai by a substantial margin in a presidential election described by foreign and local ob
Decision for NATO membership will be political but no matter what it is US will consider their Bulgarian colleagues as partners, General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Nation's second highest ranking military officer dec
Bulgarian companies are willing to carry out construction projects for the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece, it transpired after the meeting of Deputy Prime Minister Kostadin Paskalev and Greek Minister of Macedonia –Thrace Georgios Paschalidis. Earlier this
Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry will research and make checks on all potential buyers of the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company, Deputy Transport Minister Nikolay Nikolov told the MPs from the transport and telecommunications committee with Parliament. The
A Texas jury found Andrea Yates guilty of capital murder Tuesday, rejecting her claim that she was insane when she drowned her five children in a bathtub last summer. Yates, 37, met the verdict stoically, nodding, with the twitching of a jaw muscle her on
The five MPs who requested to leave the parliamentary group of the ruling Simeon II National Movement became independent MPs, the speaker of Bulgaria’s Parliament announced.
The judge on the case of Bulgaria’s flag carrier Balkan bankruptcy extended the term for submitting the rehabilitation plan of the company. Balkan receivers will have two more weeks to prepare the plan.
January receipts from industrial exports fell by 11,6 % over the previous year, mainly due to a drop in exports of metals and chemicals, data of the National Statistics Institute show. In January receipts from metals and metal products were down by 23,9%
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Radomir Metali smelter will pay off its BGN 11,3 M of debt to the National Electricity Transmission Company (NEC) till end-year, a new agreement between NEC and Radomir-based company on rescheduling the debt envisages. The agreement excludes the possibili
Over seventy-five officials from EU members and candidates states will participate in the 670th Wilton Park Conference "Enlarging the European Union", starting March 19 in Sofia. Besides other topics, the participants will discuss EU enlargement and ways
Parliament debated the controversial contract of Bulgaria’s Agency Customs with Britain’s Crown Agents at a closed parliamentary session. In the end of 2001, Finance Minister Velchev signed an agreement with Britain’s company Crown Agents to reform Bulgar
Plovdiv-based cosmetics-maker Alen Mak announced it will raise capital by almost BGN 232 M to BGN 6 M through a new issue of shares to be offered only to current shareholders. They will be entitled to subscribe for up to 25 shares from the new issue for e
Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister will meet with US Secretary of State Colin Powell today. On March 12, Passy had a series of meeting with high-ranking officials with whom discussed Bulgaria’s bid to enter NATO.
Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg will pay a two-day official visit to Austria, starting from March 20.
Bulgaria’s late Patriarch Kiril and Exarch Stephan were awarded with the honorary title “ Righteous among the nations” at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. The two church officials contributed to the saving of th
Bulgaria's Strategic Role in the EU's Drone Wall Defense Initiative
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