Abstract from El Mundo (Spain) Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar began a 24 hour tour of Turkey and Bulgaria on September 16 despite the international tension of recent days in order to prepare for Spain`s presidency of Europe in the next half-year
Sofia`s Municipality Council had an official meeting on the occasion of the Bulgarian capital holiday. The meeting started with one-minute silence in honor of the innocent victims in the US.
It is most probable that the Deputy Economy Minister Sofia Kassidova, will inherit Petur Zhotev as the consolidation company CEO, Standart Daily wrote. It is not yet clear whether the Deputy Director of the Bulgarian National Bank, Emilia Milanova, will r
Eight schools and three kindergardens in Russe are on strike because of unpaid salaries. 4000 pupils were not let in their schools because of that.
`The Bulgarian Investment Business Association /BIBA/ will open for Bulgarian companies which observe the international standards,` Nikolay Babev, Executive Director of the Association said. The decision was taken at an extraordinary session of the Board
Bulgaria should initiate a Balkan summit that will determine the regional common politics on the struggle against terrorism, the leaders of Gergyovden and VMRO said that at a press conference on September 16 . According to Gergyovden-VMRO, the forum of th
DSK State Saving Bank and the Bavarian Building Society drafted a joint bill. `The aim of the bill is to invigorate the building societies in Bulgaria,` said Helmut Straubinger, Senior Vice President of the Bavarian Building Society.
The Parliament committee on Health Policy checks in details the National Health Insurance Fund /NHIF/. A working group checks the report on the execution of NHIF`s budget for 2000.
The deposit required for participation in presidential elections is raised from BGN250 to BGN 5,000, the Parliament voted. The new requirement is part of the changes in the President and Vice President Election Act.
The case on the murder of former Prime Minister Andrey Lukanov is to be heard in Court on November 14. Five people were charged with the murder of Lukanov: the Ukrainians Alexey Kichatov and Alexander Roussov, the construction entrepreneur Angel Vassilev,
Four people were killed midnight Sunday in a gangster war in Sofia and neighboring village Ivanyane, next to Bankya. A couple were killed in Krasna Polyana district in the city – Leonid (40) and Albena (28) and their two children were witnesses of the mur
The subscibers of Bulgaria`s second GSM operator, GloBul, will pay no monthly fees by New Year, said Radina Ralcheva, of the company`s PR department. Today Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile launches activities in Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas and Varna.
The state Telecommunications Commission revoked the project submitted by the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company on raising the analogue service tariffs by 6.3%, and 20% up for a single pulse.
Bulgarian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Elena Poptodorova said that setting up a big international coalition is one of the measures in the fight against terrorism that should be discussed. `Terrorism has no nationality or religion, and perhaps the measure
Ambassador Richard Burt for Standart Daily, Sofia It will last for years, there will be strikes and sanctions.
Prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg and many members of the government and of the parliament came Saturday late evening at a wedding ceremony – first in the new political season. Politically the couple belongs to two different circles - Borislav Tsekov is a
Local and International high life crowded at the `Artists` Coffee bar of the `Hilton` hotel in Sofia to applaud the works of Nikolai Panayotov. The artist, who for 11 years now has been living in Paris, had arranged incredibly beautifully painted cones in
Sofia mayor Stefan Sofyanski appealed today to the Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg to support current president Stoyanov in the forthcoming elections. He said Nationa movement Simeon II and United Democratic Forces must have one common candidate for pre
Solvay Sody requested the Sofia Stock Exchange to stop trading of its shares as soon as it is possible. The request must be approved by the Commission within coming two weeks.
Police detained 45 illegal immigrants from Pakistan on Friday after they were found hiding in a fuel tanker with limited air sources, authorities said, quoted by Associated Press. Police said the immigrants were squeezed into the tanker that only had only
Bulgaria`s gross external debt totaled 9,957.1 million dollars in late July 2001, down 407.
Google Street View Cars Return to Bulgaria for Major Mapping Update
Housing Prices Soar in Bulgaria’s Major Cities as Demand and Supply Strain Increase
