Grigoris Micromeals, Greek fast food chain, plans starting operations in Bulgaria by the end of this year, Imerisia Daily, said. Another Greek fast food chain, Goody’s, opened three restaurants by December 2001.
Bulgaria proposed that four new checkpoints on the Greek border are opened in connection with the expected increase in the number of foreign tourists before the 2004 Olympics, Deputy Prime Minister Kostadin Paskalev said. Greek authorities confirmed that
Bulgaria received an invitation by the Japanese Cabinet to participate in a conference on the reconstruction of Afghanistan, Foreign Ministry representatives announced. The conference is scheduled for January 21-22 in Tokyo.
Europe's new single currency has survived its first working day despite two strikes, three robberies and some confusion. Banking strikes in France and Italy and bank robberies in Greece and Ireland were said to be causing little major disruption, but ther
Federal judge entered an innocent plea Wednesday for the first person - Zacarias Moussaoui, 33, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent - indicted in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The Security Council with the United Nations will decide on January 3 whether Bulgaria will chair the United Nations Sanctions against Libya Committee in 2002, the spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry Elena Poptodorova announced. She reiterated that she ex
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which is a coalition partner of the ruling Simeon II National Movement, will have three experts in the presidential team of President–elect Georgi Parvanov, MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms said, quoted b
Former national football coach Dimitur Penev may be appointed coach of the Macedonian national football team, newspapers in Macedonia wrote. "I had talks with Macedonian Football Union and its President Vancho Takovski two months ago.
Liabilities of Pamporovo ski resort privatized hotels amount to more than USD 100 000, representatives of Pamporovo joint-stock company announced. The money has been spent on maintaining the infrastructure in the resort.
The sons of MP from the Simeon II National Movement Dimcho Dimchev beat brutally a fireman in the Dimitrovgrad-based discotheque "Baccarat" on January 1. At dawn, Sergeant Andrei Nestorov who worked as a driver at the fire brigade, came in.
On January 1, the soldier Deyan Deyanov shot himself dead in the military base of village Kapitan Dimitrievo in the Pazardzhik region. Investigation is being conducted.
The problems in the Balkans can be solved only through integration into the European Union, Erhard Busek, Stability Pact Special Coordinator for South-eastern Europe said, cited by France Press. According to him minorities and border conflicts can be sett
Firefighters in Sydney are concentrating efforts late Wednesday on stopping blazes entering the Lane Cove National Park in the city's inner north west as gusty winds and high temperatures push fires ever closer to the city center.
Zambian ruling party candidate Levy Mwanawasa has been sworn in as the country's president despite a court challenge to his election. Ten opposition parties had wanted the swearing-in ceremony to be put off, saying the December 27 election had been affect
Nuclear Power Plant Kozloduy has received an official permission for starting operations in the complex for recycling and storing of radioactive waste. The move comes in accordance with Sample Protocol N 16, which confirmed the already built complex is fi
President Stoyanov decreed the promulgation of the Personal Data Act and the Amendments and Supplements Act to the Code for the Obligatory Public Insurance in the State Gazette. The Acts were adopted by Parliament on December 21, 2001.
The first contingent of French troops have joined the international peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. The group of 15 soldiers arrived on Wednesday at Bagram Air Base and will join the British peacekeepers, who have been in Afghanistan since mid-Decemb
Sofia Airport authorities announced that Emil Grigorov – director of “Fuel-Oil Materials” Department with the airport was discharged. His deputy Ivan Todorov was warned for his negligence and bad planning because of which the inventories of anti-ice liqui
Abstracted from the Washington Times Anders Aslund, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, has no illusions about economic reform in the former Soviet bloc countries.
The first bank robbery of euros took place in Greece after a gunman attacked a bank in Athens.
Gorna Arda Cascade construction will begin in 2002, Kostadin Paskalev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development, said. The upcoming Bulgarian –Turkish summit on the project’s future is scheduled for January.
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