STANDING COMMITTEES COMPOSITION APPROVED
The National Assembly Friday approved the composition and leadership of all of its 20 standing committees. Committee membership ranges from 28 to 16.
The National Assembly Friday approved the composition and leadership of all of its 20 standing committees. Committee membership ranges from 28 to 16.
The agreement on coalition governance between the King`s party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms was signed on Friday, 3 p.m.
`If Bulgaria receives an invitation to join NATO in 2002 it will be fully integrated with the Pact two years later`, parliamentary speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov said after the traditional lunch of the ambassadors of NATO member-states. According to him the tw
Members of Parliament will receive base monthly salary of BGN 750, which is three times the average monthly wage of the employed in the public sector. The salaries increased by BGN 90 than in the 38th national Assembly.
The Telecommunications Commission will check up the level of the signal of the second GSM operator in Bulgaria, GloBul, in different points in Sofia. The new operator started officially on Wednesday.
A double anniversary of 90 years Ford in Bulgaria and 10 years Moto-Pfohe celebrate the exclusive representative of Ford, Volvo and Jaguar in Bulgaria on Friday. The celebration will begin with a concert in the center of Sofia, where there will be an open
Eight Macedonian citizens have filed applications asking to be granted asylum in Bulgaria in the past month, Boiko Antonov, Chairman of the Refugee Agency announced. 25 Macedonians have asked the agency how they could extend their stay in Bulgaria.
The second unit of the KOZLODUY Nuclear Power Plant was re-connected to the national grid after completing the planned annual outage and reached 50% of its capacity on Wednesday. The sixth unit is still in annual outage.
Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, was invited to visit Tripoli with an official letter by the Libya`s ambassador to Bulgaria. `The doors of Libya are opened for the people of the MRF at any time.
The private Bobovdol Transport AD ranked first in the bidding for the open mine Christo Botev in Bobovdol. It is the largest creditor of the mines in South-western Bulgaria.
Drug trafficking ring from Turkey to Western Europe, based in the city of Silistra, has been broken with 14 kg of heroin seized. The heroin was concealed in a specially made compartments of a Bulgarian-registered car.
The Atlantic Council of USA issued a report on the Bulgarian defence industry recommending that `the US and their NATO allies should assist Bulgaria in transforming and reorienting its defence industry but only if the country continues tightening arms exp
Bulgaria has sold 96,000 tons of barley from the new crop to the Middle East at $85-$92 per ton. The forecast for the total exports is up to 200,000 tons, traders and analysts said on Wednesday.
Balkan Airlines is negotiating charter flights with one of the biggest tour-operators Neckermann. Next week experts from the commercial department of Balkan leave for Germany.
Members of Parliament cannot participate in management or supervisory boards of trade companies, the temporary committee of the 39th National Assembly decided Wednesday. The MPs will have to declare whether they have direct financial interest in a particu
`Microsoft appreciates the political will of President Stoyanov to fight software piracy and to promote the enforcement of copyright legislation`, MS Senior Vice President Jean-Philippe Courtois writes in a letter to Stoyanov. The two met on June 21, 2001
Coalition for Bulgaria submitted Wednesday a request on an inquiry into the activities of the government of Kostov between April 10 and July 5, 2001, i.e.
`Coalition For Bulgaria believes that the Constitution should not be revised`, the Socialists` Deputy Floor Leader Kornezov said, commenting on the idea of Yunal Lyutfi of the ethnic Turks` Movement that the Constitution should be revised to reflect the f
`Graf Ignatievo Airport, which will host the NATO exercise codenamed `Cooperative Key`, is making good progress. The construction work must be completed on schedule for the exercise`, General Miho Mihov, Chief of the Bulgarian General Staff, announced.
New York Times, By JOHN TAGLIABUE SEVLIEVO, Bulgaria — Much like a Martian spacecraft, a huge new factory that makes porcelain bathroom fixtures is a startling sight on the farmland outside this worn-down city of 25,000 in a remote corner of the Balkans.
BBC-The former King of Bulgaria, Simeon II, who won last month`s elections, has struck a coalition deal with a party representing the country`s ethnic Turkish minority. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms is due to sign the deal with the Simeon II Nation
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