The President of Bulgaria and Macedonia Georgi Parvanov and Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia agreed in Skopje to set up a telephone hot line, to be used not just for exchange of information but also for deciding joint action. " The fact that Macedonia is th
Foreign Minister Solomon Passy will pay a visit to the Unites States most probably starting from March 10, the Foreign Ministry announced. The aim of the visit will be to prepare the coming visit of Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg to the United States.
After the ruling Simeon II National Movement and coalition partner Movement for Rights and Freedoms late on Tuesday approved the sale plan of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), the strategy is expected to be approved by the cabinet today. Can
The Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected late today to discuss and approve Bulgaria’s funding agreement, the Finance Ministry announced. The agreement is for two years and is for USD 300 M, Finance Minister Velchev announced in Parli
Bulgaria will increase almost two times its export of special products to India, the Economy Ministry announced. This was the aim of the Indian visit of Deputy Economy Minister Kaloyan Ninov last week, when he had meetings with Indian Defence Minister Geo
INTRACOM Group expressed its regret for the transfer in Bulgaria of an unfair war evolving in Greece against the group’s interests. INTRACOM said that commenting on publications in the Bulgarian press, regarding the recent prosecution against Sokratis Kok
Bulgaria's indebted Balkan Airlines confirmed February 26 it had sealed a GBP 3,150,000 runway slot sale with British Airways of four of the five slots at London Heathrow. In return, Balkan will buy slots at Gatwick for an estimated GBP 600,000.
Moscow approved a two-way travel draft agreement with Bulgaria, drawn up by the Russian Foreign Ministry. The bilateral agreement is expected to be signed in the coming days in Sofia.
The widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl Tuesday sounded an "alarm for everybody" in Pakistan and across the globe about international terror groups. This is "a vast and international network of terrorists," not just a group of extr
Hermann Regensburger, State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior met with Bulgaria’s Chief Secretary with the Interior Ministry Boyko Borissov and General Vassil Vassilev, head of the Bulgarian Police in Germany. The officials discusse
Bulgaria’s President Georgi Parvanov is on a state visit in Macedonia.Upon his departure, Parvanov explained that the visit to Macedonia should be considered as a sign of Bulgaria’s Balkan politics continuity.
Twenty-two people were crushed to death when a building collapsed in the Egyptian city of Damietta. The bodies were retrieved from the rubble of the four-storey building on Tuesday.
The first stage of the Balcard project for smartcards cross-border transactions over the Internet started, said Alexander Matrozov, Managing Director of BORICA Ltd. (Bank Organization for Payments Initiated by Cards), the national card system operator.
Stanley Fischer, Citigroup Vice Chairman and former Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, has been invited to become economic counsellor in the Cabinet, Deputy Finance Minister Krassimir Katev announced. In his opinion Fischer could
Bulgaria's decision to keep golden shares in telecom and tobacco monopolies after privatisation may discourage investors and further hinder the already difficult sales, the IMF and analysts said, quoted by Reuters. The government plans to sell up to 65 %
The Dutch Ambassador to Bulgaria, Baroness Henriette van Lynden, visited Kurdzhali 25 and 26 February, 2002. She attended the opening of the Regional Chitalishte Centre “Obedinenie”, one of the six regional centres in a programme of support, implemented u
“A serious reform in the Bulgarian customs is necessary,“ Finance Minister Velchev said at a meeting of the management of Agency “Customs.” Main goal should be to increase revenues and to stimulate foreign investments, Velchev added.
A car was blasted at 8.10 am in front of the “Power supply station – South” in Sofia.
The EU eastern enlargement is the major project for the final healing of the wounds between the two Europes, and even the wounds between the Christian and Muslim worlds, Daily Spanish newspaper El Pais wrote. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is to
Lyubka Kachakova, former deputy economy minister, was released from her position Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bulgaria’s tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac at her request. That was announced by the Executive Director of Bulgartabac Georgi Popov.
President Parvanov awarded outgoing US Ambassador Richard Miles the Order of the Stara Planina, First Class, for his contribution to invigorating bilateral relations and the end of his mandate as Ambassador to Bulgaria. Ambassador Miles said his stay in B
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