European parliament greets the King Simeon’s movement and appreciates its commitment to eradicate corruption. This was noted in a regular report of the Europarliament on the progress of Bulgaria along the path to the EU accession, reported Deutsche Welle.
UDF deputy chairman and outgoing foreign minister Nadezhda Mihailova and Plamen Panayotov, king’s group leader in the parliament talked on the phone, despite the fact that both were on the premises. Leaders of the parliamentary groups of the UDF and NMS I
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The National Environmental Protection Fund /NEPF/ financed 440 investment projects worth BGN 220 M in the past four years, outgoing Environment Minister Evdokia Maneva said in a report. Most of the funds were invested in the construction of waste treatmen
The Mayor of Nesebar Nikolay Trifonov has filed a case against the Privatisation Agency /PA/ for offering for sale several buildings in Sunny Beach resort. These are two hotels, a restaurant and a laundry.
NOKIA COMMUNICATOR 9210 was presented officially in Hilton Sofia for the media and top level decision makers in Bulgaria. ***
The Bulgarian stock exchange is to start working according to new regulations, enforced from July 16, officials from the stock exchange announced. The changes will concern the package deals.
A total of 50.1% of the budgeted annual tax revenues were collected by June 30, 2001, the Chief Tax Directorate reported.
A Bulgarian consortium of banks and companies is ready to support the rehabilitation program for the Varna Shipyard, proposed by the British Camell Laird, PARI Daily reported. Two weeks ago a meeting has been held among political leaders, representatives
In the first quarter of 2001, Italy increased its trade with Bulgaria by 17.3% in comparison with the year-ago period, bringing its value to $340.
Second transport, carrying emergency relief supplies, left for Macedonia on Tuesday, the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) announced. The assistance is provided under a joint project of the BRC and the American Red Cross (ARC) for disaster preparedness and relief
The newest mobile generation from Nokia: Communicator 9210 will be promoted Wednesday at Sofia Hilton officially and the first sales will go on until the end of the week in the country. Nokia Communicator 9210 comes to implement the news stage of the conc
Yesterday Israeli ambassador Emmanuel Ziesmann visited the beaten lifeguard from the swimming pool at the `Hrankov` hotel, Standart daily reported. Last Sunday Israeli national Hai A.
We fear that UtdDF has been trying to impede and spread a spirit of mistrust at the negotiations between NMS II and MRF, Yunal Lutfi, chief of MRF PG said yesterday after the second round of the official consultations with President Peter Stoyanov. MRF le
Prosecutor General, Nikola Filchev, and chairman of parliament, Ognjan Gerdzhikov, had a private conversation that lasted an hour and a half. Confidential state issues have been discussed.
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1600 kg. of narcotics were burnt on Tuesday in the Kremicovtzi furnaces.
`Coalition for Bulgaria cannot support the new government in advance, before knowing what and who will be there to support`, Socialist leader Georgi Purvanov said after meeting President Stoyanov. This was one of a series of consultations the head of stat
The USAID will extend funding for civil qualification courses of 120 military officers made redundant as a result of the liquidation of Pirin Division of the Bulgarian Armed Forces. Some 120 officers out of 900 will study English.
117 people were killed in industrial accidents in 2000, Krassimir Totkov, Executive Director of the Chief Labour Inspectorate, announced on Monday. By comparison, 123 were killed in 1997, 104 in 1998, and 89 in 1999.
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