Business barometer polls conducted by the Statistical Institute (NSI) over the month show a positive development of the business climate. In July the composite Business Climate Index, based on the opinions of the business owners and executives polled by t
The Bulgarian Telecommunications Company introduces new prices for leased lines` services, effective from September 1, 2001. The average reduction of the tariffs will be 1,13%.
BGN 50 000 is the heaviest fine envisaged in the bill of accounting is the heaviest, introduced in Parliament. The sanction is to be applied to the companies that carry out audit without being authorized.
`We have been assured, that there is a chance for Great Britain to alleviate the visa regime for Bulgaria`, Bulgaria`s ambassador to London Valentin Dobrev said for Darik radio. This statement renounced the information that the regime would be made even s
By Charles Fenyvesi and Edward von Kloberg They were washed out politically for more than 50 years, outcasts from the countries their dynasties once ruled.
`The European Union will grant EUR 300 M per year in pre-accession support to Bulgaria, which is equivalent to about 2.5% of Bulgaria`s GDP.
Ten rules which each journalist must keep were accepted at the annual meeting of the Bulgarian media Coalition in Borovetz, near Sofia. The rules are considered to be the future Code of Ethics of the media in the country.
Bulgaria needs new Labour Code, deputy PM and social minister Lidia Shuleva said over the national radio. The current one looks like an old fashioned dress, repaired several times, but still unfit for a party, she added.
The issue of Bulgarian eurobonds will most probably be postponed until next year, Kaushik Rudra, director of Sovereign Strategy for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Lehman Brothers, says in an interview for the Free Europe Radio. Now is not the time for
The Socialist party and the post-election coalition between Simeon II movement and Movement for Rights and Freedom could come out with a joint nominee for the presidential elections. This is envisaged in one of the three variants offered at the yesterday`
Wages in the budget sphere will be increased by 10 %, if there are no overdrafts in the state treasury by October 10, Deputy PM and Minister of Labor Lidya Shouleva said. If the budget is well-calculated, we shall easily keep this promise, she added.
Secret Files Commission will check whether the ministers in the new government have files in the former state security service. Head of the Commission, Metodi Andreev, and his employees will dig into the past of 9 deputies who haven`t been investigated as
Minister of agriculture Mehmed Dikme stated it is unlikely that the state would compensate the financial losses from the drought. Farmers demanded an emergency situation to be announced in the Dobrich region due to the unprecedented drought.
The US Trade and Development Agency will extend $296,000 to an engineering US company to conduct a feasibility study on modernizing the production facilities of the Asarel Medet plant. The agreement was signed by US ambassador Miles and Asarel`s CEO Latch
`The future president-designate will need the support of the King`s party to win the presidential election`, Mira Yanova from the sociological agency MBMD told the national radio on Sunday. According to two researches the public rating of the King`s movem
The farmers in Dobrudja asked for the state`s assistance because of the disastrous situation of the harvest. The average crops in Dobrudja equal to 23.
A memorandum on cooperation was signed Friday in Berlin by the German service dealing with the Stasi archives and the Bulgarian commission on secret police files. The document enables exchange information and expertise.
`Deutsche Bank declared its readiness to continue consulting the Bulgarian government on the privatisation of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Nikolai Vassilev told journalists, back from London where
President Stoyanov had a working breakfast with journalists of major international media based in the UK, including BBC, `The Economist`, `The Daily Telegraph`, `The Financial Times`, `The Guardian`, and Reuters. The press was interested above all in Bulg
The New York Times; By TINA ROSENBERG In the old days, a deposed monarch desirous of power would raise an army.
Bulgaria will be divided into six districts instead the current 28, Dimiter Kaltchev, newly appointed minister of state administration said today. It is the demand of the European Union also, he added.
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
