'We discussed the possibility for 13th salary in the budget sphere and for 13th pension. We will check all the possible reserves for such payments', Deputy Prime Minister and Social Minister Lidia Shouleva said.
'Budget '2002 may be called "the beginning of poverty overcoming," Finance Minister Milen Velchev said when presenting budget bill 2002 to Parliament, to be voted on first reading. The actual growth of the municipal subsidy will equal 32.
The National Social Security Institute will be in charge of payments of social insurance and compensations for the unemployed. An Executive Agency for Employment will be created with the Minister of Labor and Social Policy, which will be implementing the
Edvin Sugarev, Bulgarian Ambassador to India, is going to hand in his resignation, Mediapool reported. Justifying his decision he has cited the impossibility to fulfill his obligations after the election of Socialist leader Georgi Parvanov as the new Bulg
30 Bulgarian companies passed a training course under the Export Quality Oriented Enterprise Profiling (EXPRO) project, aiming at export increase to the European Union countries. The project was financed by the Swiss Import Promotion Program.
In order that united Europe is successfully built, it is necessary to create a core of several candidate EU countries, Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs Renato Ruggiero told the Foreign Affairs Committee with the French National Assembly. According to R
“Mobiltel”, Bulgaria’s first GSM operator, is going to bring suits against its debtors. Despite the invitations that were sent to them all, a big part of the owed money remains unpaid.
Elena Poptodorova, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman, expressed satisfaction with president-elect Georgi Parvanov’s statements, confirming Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union and NATO as top priorities in Bulgaria’s foreign policy. According to Poptodor
The Dutch Ambassador to Bulgaria, Henriette van Lynden visited Veliko Turnovo in connection with the Dutch Economic Co-Operation Program(PSO) that aims at further commercial co-operation between Dutch and Bulgarian companies. Lynden met the Veliko Turnovo
Justice Minister Stankov will sign the Convention on Crime in cyberspace at a ceremony in the Hungarian Parliament on November 23. The minister leaves for Budapest on November 22 to take part in the international conference on crime in cyberspace.
At an official ceremony, the chairman of the Central Electoral Commission Maria Pavlova announced that Georgi Parvanov is elected Bulgarian President and Anguel Marin is elected Bulgarian Vice President at the presidential elections on November 11 and Nov
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) recommends electricity price in Bulgaria and the countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to be raised at least to its U.S.
The Bulgarian Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg gave an interview for the Italian daily “Corriere della Sera” before his visit to Italy where he will participate in the annual meeting of the Central European Initiative. Saxe-Coburg explained what the Government
After a meeting with the Bulgarian Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg, the Turkish media magnate Aiden Dogan said that Bulgaria is a good place to invest in. “The Bulgarian Prime Minister is a real democrat,” the Turkish businessman added.
“Hungary supports the idea that a group of ten countries joins the European Union, but it doesn’t want to be obstructed by the less prepared candidates,” Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister said for the Hungarian National Radio. “ There is one thing th
The Bulgarian Foreign Minister Passy will make an official visit to Belgrade on November 26. His Yugoslav counterpart Goran Svilanovic invited him.
Early Bulgarian ecclesiastical literature and its modern publications are on display at the Exhibition of Bulgarian Ecclesiastical Literature at the National Church History and Archaeology Museum in Sofia. Works from the Zographus Monastery on Mt.
Carriers from Plovdiv and Pazardzhik blocked highway Trakiya at 11am on November 21. They protest against the raise of the propane-butane excise.
Pierre Chevalier, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of the Belgian Parliament is on an official visit to Bulgaria in connection with the European Union report on the progress of the eighteen EU applicant states. T
Bulgarian inventions won 95 awards at the Brussels Eureka World Exhibition of Innovation, Research and New Technologies. Bulgaria was presented for the first time at the exhibition.
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