Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg signed Friday the orders appointing the key deputy ministers, the Chief Secretary and Parliamentary Secretary of the Council of Ministers. The list of the deputy ministers is not final.
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom Sofia - Industrial sales in the first six months of 2001 increased 4 per cent from a year earlier, the National Statistical Institute said.
The Bulgarian transport ministry refused reports in the foreign press alleging that the sick boy on board a Sabena flight died as a result of Bulgarian authorities delayed by an hour` permission for an emergency landing at Sofia Airport. A Sabena aircraft
Doctor Robert Ballard, who discovered the exact location of the remains of the `Titanic` and the `Bismarck`, arrived in Sofia. Starting August 15, Ballard and his team will search for evidence that the Biblical deluge started in the Black Sea some 7,500 y
New ideas for cooperation in high-tech and telecommunications topped the agenda of a meeting between Transport and Telecommunications Minister Plamen Petrov and US Ambassador here Richard Miles. Petrov said that US partners should assist more actively in
Kostadin Paskalev, newly appointed minister of regional development told that a brand program has been moved to the government for approval and sale of land to foreigners for industrial purposes will be possible soon, BTA press agency reported. However, i
The Privatisation Agency cancelled the privatisation procedure for Hotel Victoria in the village of Ognyanovo, Gotse Delchev municipality. The procedure was re-opened on May 29, 2001, as one of the last decisions endorsed by the former PA CEO, Levon Hampa
The Council of Ministers issued an official statement in which it rejects the accusations published by the Greek daily Ethnos, according to which Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg is supporting and financing a newly-founded organization that demands the r
Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg will meet his Romanian counterpart Adrian Nastase on August 14 in the Borovets resort to discuss the Vidin-Calafat Danube bridge. ***
`A new rehabilitation programme for the Bulgarian State Railways will be launched by this year`s end`, Transport Minister Plamen Petrov announced on Thursday. A new management concept will be developed for the troubled state-owned railways.
BGN 680,000 from the parliamentary budget have been set aside for the purchase and installation of computer equipment in parliament, National Assembly General Secretary Ognyan Avramov said. The PC provider will be chosen under the Public Procurements A
The Bulgarian Socialist Party suggests that the government should provide low-interest credits in kind for farmers, such as seed and fuels, and also medium-term credits for fertilizers, party leader Georgi Parvanov said after meeting Prime Minister Simeon
In the next 5 years Kremicovtzi Plc. steelworks will open 8 trade outlets around the country, worth a total of BGN 25 M, as part of its domestic distribution network, the board of directors decided.
THE BULGARIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY must re-launch the tender on telephone highway cables` supplier, as only one candidate, the MG plant Elcable of Burgas, showed in the first tender. According to the Bulgarian legislation at least three bidders shou
The government`s BUDGET DEFICIT for the first seven months of year 2001 amounts to BGN 481 M, the Finance Ministry announced. The income stands at BGN 3.
One of the ministers in the cabinet of Simeon Saxe-Coburg has a personal file in the former State Secret Services, it became known after the commission on secret files completed its check-up of the ministers in Simeon Saxe-Coburg`s Cabinet. The name of th
Meglena Kuneva from Simeon II National Movement will be the new chief negotiator with the European Union, Bulgarian e-newspaper Mediapool announced. She will replace the former Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Kisyov, who resigned with the argument that t
`The construction of a Bulgaria-based network for issuing e-certificates began`, Information Service Plc. announced.
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In June, the workforce in Bulgaria totalled 3,412,600 persons (50.4% of the population aged 15 or older).
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