77 PROJECTS have applied for financing under the steel and mining areas employment project of the PHARE programme in the West Rodopa region. The projects concern the towns of Madan, Rudozem, Zlatograd, Smolyan, Asenovgrad, Velingrad, Laki, etc.
`Resolving the water shortage problems is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works`, Kostadin Paskalev, the newly elected Minister, announced on Wednesday. Some BGN 620 million will be needed for the construction of d
Bulgarian Technologies is the buyer of the Sofia cinema halls brought together in the state-owned corporation Sofia Film. It will acquire 75% of the Sofia Film capital.
NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - Software maker AremisSoft Corp. (NASDAQ:AREM), the focus of recent media reports that questioned the value of some of its contracts, on Tuesday said it was cooperating with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the SEC'
`Continuity and predictability are the two factors on which Bulgaria`s prestige will depend over the next few years`, President Stoyanov said at a meeting Wednesday with Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg, Foreign Minister Solomon Passy and 36 ambassadors
All the nominations for deputy-ministers and members of political cabinets yesterday were submitted to the Deputy PM Lidia Shouleva. Professional biographies were also applied to the nominations.
The second GSM operator in Bulgaria,GloBul, will launch its clients` services in the first half of September. Till then the opertor will expand its network.
According to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Nikolai Vasilev there will be five deputy ministers in the Ministry of Economy. Three nominations for the deputy ministerial positions -of Liubka Kachakova, Kaloian Ninov, and Sofia Kasidova will
Maxim Behar, CEO of the largest PR company in Bulgaria M3 Communications Group, Inc. (www.
In the first half of the year a total of 1.163 million Bulgarians have travelled abroad according to data of the National Statistical Institute.
By Joshua Kucera SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The new Bulgarian government, headed by ex-King Simeon II, pledged yesterday to speed up reforms over the next three months in a bid to convince the European Union that the Balkan nation is ready to join.
Captain Ralitsa Mateeva from the Ministry of Defence will chair the Security Council with the Cabinet, Standart Daily reported. The news was confirmed by two independent sources.
During his short visit to Bulgaria Albanian Foreign Ministers Paskal Milo met his Bulgarian couterpart Solomon Passy to discuss the crisis in neighbouring Macedonia. According to both of them the Macedonian government needs to find a solution to the crisi
AremisSoft provides to the Bulgarian GPs and dentists a free new module, designed to make easier the periodical delivering of data for the registered patients to the Regional Health Insurance Funds. The module is being distributed by the National Health I
The Financial Times People in Focus: Simeon Saxe-Coburg
`The Stability Pact is ready to provide all of its instruments to help Bulgaria join the European structures and achieve a fast economic growth`, Special Coordinator Bodo Hombach said on Monday. Hombach is on a two-day visit to Bulgaria.
` Polimeri will launch joint production with Germany`s Krupp Ude and will expand its facilities in a two-year period `, Dimitar Karaivanov, head of the Devnya-based company, announced. An agreement has been reached with the Dortmund-based company on the i
Japan`s Tokuda Corporation announced it has completed the audit of Bulgaria`s national air carrier, Balkan Airlines. Tokuda experts have investigated the financial status of the company in receivership, the debts of the airliner and their repayment, the r
The pre-tax profit of Economic and Investment Bank /EIBank/ for the first half of 2001 amounts to BGN 7,988,000, up from BGN 3,737,000 for the year-ago period. The bank`s post-tax profit stands at BGN 7,865,000, compared with BGN 3,627,000 for the first h
Sofia municipal PRIVATISATION AGENCY posted revenue, three times higher than the planned one. Higher investment activity on the part of the new owners was reported for the first six months.
EU Chief Negotiator with Bulgaria Michael Leigh told Parliament Chairman Gerdzhikov on Monday that he highly appreciates the readiness of the new political force in Bulgaria to seriously undertake continuity in the policy towards EU membership. Leigh said
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
