For one-week period 500 projects for funding under SAPARD program were submitted to the regional departments of the State Fund “Agriculture”, Ventsislav Varbanov, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, announced in Pleven today. The first meeting with shor
Kosovo starts to import electricity from Bulgaria, National Electric Company (NEC) announced. The offer encompasses the period June 25-July 9 and from July to September.
Personal Files Commission has disclosed today 34 more MP nominees as agents to former State Security. The total number of MP candidates disclosed as ex-informers running for the next parliament count 112.
Accused as collaborator with former State Security and withdrawn from king`s tickets nominee Ventzislav Dimitrov made a complaint against his removal. He declared his intentions to sue Bulgaria in Strasbourg court for calumny.
The deal on the State Insurance Institute (DZI) will be finalized by this week`s end, Privatisation`s Agency CEO Levon Hampartsumyan, said. Consortium between TBI Holding and DZI 2000 MEBO will become owner of 67% of the state insurer.
Hackers crashed the election web site of the ruling UDF coalition during the weekend and distorted the available information. PM Ivan Kostov `appealed` electorate not to vote at the elections but to go to watch sheep at villages because of their abundance
Annual visit of over 100 tour operators from UK to Bulgarian Black Sea resorts is organized by `Balkan Holidays` agency. Potential of Bulgaria as a tourism destination will be presented.
PHARE program will invest EUR 800,000 in a project for construction of business incubator and industrial park in Haskovo. The project`s objective is to ensure premises for local entrepreneurs.
The US based AremisSoft, a leading software supplier listed at Nasdaq (AREM), USD 525 M market capitalization, are ready to invest additional USD 40 M in the Bulgarian Healthcare system, Vassil Kolev, country manager announced. AremisSoft won a tender at
The contracts with the US investors AES and Entergy on the rehabilitation and construction of new units of TPPs `Maritsa-East` 1 and 3 will be sealed on June 13 in a non-public ceremony, was announced today. In the meantime AES announced that the company
King`s coalition will not name the future ministers before the vote. `I`m not going to shoot in the air as the other politicians do`, HM Simeon II declared.
Japanese Bank for International Cooperation grants another $104 M for the construction of the metropolitan, Sofia Mayor Stephan Sofiyanski said. The loan is under intergovernmental agreement and has a grace period of 10 years, the Mayor elaborated.
A man in a uniform of a police officer shot in front of the seat of the National Movement Simeon II in `Ilinden` municipality of Sofia yesterday morning. Two fired cartridges of a `Makarov` gun in front of the cafe have been found.
A draft on abolition of VAT (Value Added Tax) payments upon the international services in the field of tourism was promoted at a public debate in Slanchev Bryag (Sunny Beach) by Vladimir Karolev, king`s economic expert. He declared before private propriet
King`s economic team held a public debate with government representatives from ruling UDF coalition, broadcasted on Channel 1 of National Television. Bulgaria`s economic development after the elections June 17, was discussed.
Vladimir Sheytanov, Bulgarian lawyer of the six accused medics in Libya, demanded the release of prison of D-r Zdravko Georgiev, one of the detained Bulgarians. There are documents, that D-r Georgiev wasn`t in Libya in December 1998, when according to the
King`s coalition withdraw ten nominees from its tickets yesterday. June 9 was the deadline for political parties and coalitions to replace MP candidates disclosed as collaborators with former State Security.
The MG Corporation invested DM 40 M in St. Elias complex in the resort of St.
Lukoil-Neftochim will receive the first tranche of the ecological loan from the World Bank till end-August, CEO of Burgas-based refinery, Vladimir Rakitsky, said. The loan of EUR 40 M is granted for elimination of 450,000 tons of wastes that have been acc
From 400,000 to 700,000 people work in the shady economy, experts of Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria said. From 528,000 to 540,000 Bulgarian citizens pay insurances on the bases of one monthly minimum wage (BGN 85), more than 950,000
Bulgaria will send fresh drinking water to the residents of Macedonian city of Kumanovo, Bulgarian PM Ivan Kostov said yesterday in Plovdiv (South Bulgaria). He has a meeting with NATO`s supreme commander in Europe, US Air Force General Joseph Ralston, wh
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