New vineyards will be grown on an area of 1,000 hectares in the municipalities of Veliko Turnovo, Pavlikeni and Harmanli in Southern Bulgaria. The investment of BGN 15 M will be made of a Bulgarian-Hungarian holding.
Ministers and MPs of the Simeon II National Movement (SIINM) described Saturday's speech of leader of Simeon II National Movement and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg as just criticism but said it was not a sign of forthcoming cabinet changes. They belie
Almost all participants in the conference “New political realities and Bulgaria’s fate in the third millennium” supported the idea of establishing a civic parliament. According to Yane Yanev, leader of the National Association Bulgarian Agrarian People’s
A total of 44 foreign nationals were stopped from illegally crossing the Bulgarian -Turkish border last night. The two groups were made up of 27 and 17 persons respectively.
Thick fog prevented Sofia airport from resuming normal work January 27. Only two planes departed from the airport, while all arriving, except the plane from Vienna, were diverted.
Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Australia to show solidarity with nearly 200 Afghan asylum seekers who are on their twelfth day of a hunger strike. Australia's immigration minister is standing firm on the policy, already slammed by the United Nati
One Israeli was killed and more than 110 people were injured in a Palestinian suicide bombing attack midday Sunday in the center of west Jerusalem, CNN reported, citing Israeli authorities. It was the second attack in the same area in less than a week.
President Parvanov is seriously concerned about the increasing contradictions in the judicial system, a statement of the President's legal advisor Plamen Kirov, reads. The tensions in the system can prompt political intervention, which will interfere with
New Year’s celebrations checked the fall in consumer confidence and the index retained its November levels of -30, data of the monthly GfK Bulgaria survey, show. The negligible rise of 1% is attributed to optimistic expectations for the next 12 months, ra
The European Union's new members will have to wait 10 years before they are granted full access to the bloc's huge farm budget under plans to be unveiled by the European Commission this week, Reuters reported, citing documents obtained Sunday. According t
The hospitals in the country are running short of medicines, doctors alarmed. The medicine crisis is looming large in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora.
The Trade Union of Power Engineers demanded that a referendum on the closing of Nuclear Power Plant Units be held. “Let the Bulgarian people and not the European politicians decide Kozloduy’s future,” the letter sent to Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg r
The names of two more Britons being held among suspected al-Qaeda or Taleban members in Camp X-Ray have been released by the Foreign Office. Asif Iqbal, 20, and Shafiq Rasul, 24, were taken to the maximum security prison at the US navy base in Guantanamo
The opinion of Bulgarian and foreign experts should be taken into account in preparing Bulgaria’s position on the future of Nuclear Power Plant Kozloduy, President Georgi Parvanov said at his meeting with representatives of the National Civic Committee on
Bulgaria's second GSM operator GloBul, beer Kamenitza and washing powder Dero were ranked first as the most effectively and successfully advertised products in Bulgaria in a representative survey of polling agency Alpha research. Experts point out that th
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Nikolay Vassilev was ranked first in the poll "The Most Efficient Economy Minister" of the online news provider novinite.com.
“The European Union failed to fulfil its commitment to provide compensations for the direct and indirect losses Bulgaria will suffer from the early closure of Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 and Unit 2, “ Kiril Armenkov, former chairman of the Energy Committee
The Ukrainian ship “Arhangelsk” sank 3-4- meters deep, 486 kilometers after Dunav bridge. When the river level is low, a shallow forms at that place in the river, since some time ago a floating section sank there, experts explained.
The Dalai Lama has been flown to Bombay for a medical checkup after doctors found a lump in his stomach. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 with thousands of supporters following a failed uprising against China.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat renewed his call for a cease-fire with Israel on Saturday, but promised to resist increasing Israeli and U.S.
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