Big Austrian consortium may buy biggest GSM operator Mobiltel, it emerged after a meeting of Transport Minister Petrov with representatives of the potential buyer of the first Bulgarian GSM operator. Minister Petrov did not make an official statement afte
The Parliamentary groups leaders of the National Movement Simeon II and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg discussed the decisions of the summit in Laeken on December 18. After the end of the three-hour meeting Prim
Ruling majority parliamentary group will backdate the act, which provides for a ban on payment of privatization deals with compensatory papers as of September 1, the MPs decided on December 18 after long debates. “We backdated the act from September 1 on,
Bulgarian foreign minister Passy leaves today to Libyan capital Tripoli on a historic visit as the relations between two countries are extremely tense after Bulgarian medics were accused of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV. Passy will be pr
Flag Carrier Balkan Airlines rehabilitation plan was not approved by the Sofia District Court because of procedure infringements upon its filing. The program was filed in the court on December 13 by Balkan receivers Hristo Mollov and Olga Milenkova.
A financial agreement between the Bulgarian Government, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Bulgarian State Railways will be signed on December 19 for the reconstruction and modernization of Plovdiv-Svilengrad railway section. EIB will grant EUR 7
The destinies of Bulgaria and Romania are closely related, an article published by Reuters reads. It points out it would be rather hard for them to prove that they deserve the same treatment as Estonia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia.
The National Electricity Transmission Company has signed a contract for the export of 250 MgW of electricity to the Republic of Serbia from October 18 till the end of February. As one Serbian newspaper wrote the country is between darkness and light.
"It is unlikely that the new government will be able to live up to all the expectations the people have. But the economic political road the government has taken, is the right one", Lambsdorff, Count Dr.
The memorandum between the International Monetary Fund and the Bulgarian Government will be published on the Internet this week, the Bulgarian Finance Minister announced. Thus the concrete parameters of the agreement will be made public before the approva
Emil Koshlukov, Simeon II National Movement MP presented the Public Council attached to the Civil Society parliamentary committee at a “Communication and Interaction between the National Assembly and the Civil Society Organizations” seminar organized by t
The heavy snowfall isolated the district of Haskovo on December 18. An action plan is to be discussed similar to that applied in emergency situations.
Parliament Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov sent a letter to the Bulgarian medics in Libya who were accused in deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV. The Bulgarian medics have been imprisonned in Libya for almost three years now.
The passengers that were trapped in a snowed-in train in northeast Greece are already safe. Greek Railway officials said they had asked Bulgarian authorities to help reach the passengers.
For a term of one year, a moratorium is put on the privatization of the cabinets for out patient aid. The cabinets are 6000, they pay rent to the policlinics and have contracts with the Health Insurance Fund, Health Care Minister Bozhidar Finkov announced
U.S.
Members of Parliament of NATO members European countries appealed that Bulgaria and Romania are not left out of the process of NATO enlargement in a letter addressed to the US Senate democratic majority leader, Tom Daschle. The letter underscores that the
By The Associated Press At first, Dobrinka Petkova was a proud mother watching her daughter make her debut as an anchorwoman.
“I hope that the Libyan Court will not be influenced and will be impartial,” Vladimir Sheytanov, the lawyer of the Bulgarian medics who were accused of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV virus said. The last hearing on the medics' trial will
The leaders in the IT industry Compaq and Microsoft donated to the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” the latest software and hardware products for a new study and research center on Information Technologies in the University.
The Bush administration is stepping up pressure on the European Commission to approve imports of a dozen crops made with genetically-modified organisms, warning that a continuation of the moratorium could escalate into a serious trade dispute.
Novinite 2025 in Review: A Year That Tested Bulgaria and the World
A Disgraceful Betrayal: Bulgaria's Shameful Entry into Trump's Board of Peace
