The new Supervisory Board of the Privatization Agency will be summoned immediately after the promulgation of the parliament`s decision, said for Standart Daily Petko Nikolov, elected from the NMS II quota. The publication in the `State Gazette` is expecte
Former foreign minister Stanislav Daskalov will be Bulgaria`s new ambassador to the EU, sources from the Simeon II National movement said. He will replace Antoaneta Primatarova, who resigned after UDF lost the elections.
Deputy ministers of all ministries will be appointed by the end of the week, the National Radio announced quoting the press center of the Social Ministry. On Tuesday the parliamentary group of the King`s movement will agree the future appointments of depu
Nearly BGN 1 M of investment have been attracted to the development of cultural tourism in Veliko Turnovo as a result of the 4th International Folk Festival, held here between June 30 and July 7. The Festival is under the auspices of the UNESCO-affiliated
`A leading Italian banking group is interested in buying Bulgarian insurance companies`, Italian Deputy Industry Minister Giuseppe Galatti told Bulgarian Deputy PM and Economy Minister Nikolai Vassilev at a meeting. The Italian business circles have great
`Bulgaria is allowed to export cattle, sheep and goats to European Union member states in pursuance to Decision 2001/600/EC of the European Commission, published Friday`, the Ministry of Agriculture announced. Some restrictive measures concerning livestoc
The Bulgarian Telegraph Agency Over the last ten years half of the applicants seeking admission to Bulgaria`s largest and oldest higher educational establishment, the St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, have flunked their entrance exams in Bulgarian
The possible participation of Japanese funds in providing money to the project for a trunk-road connecting Sofia and Nis, Yugoslavia, was a subject to discussion between Deputy PM and Regional Development Minister Paskalev and Japanese Ambassador to Sofia
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`The pontoon bridge over the Danube river at Novi Sad will be opened each night from October`, Danail Nedyalkov, general director of the Danube Commission, announced. In this way the river traffic will be gradually alleviated.
`An improved environmental impact assessment on the Sutka project is to be submitted to the Ministry of Environment ??? ?????? in September`, the company`s manager Kostadin Mugev announced after a general shareholders meeting. The project concerns buildin
President Stoyanov started his election campaign in `de facto` this weekend in the Black sea cost city of Burgas after a group of his supporters officially raised his candidacy for the forthcoming elections. The president visited a naval military base and
The election of Privatization agency supervisory board last week might cause a dispute between so called young and old economists in Simeon II National movement, the party that won 120 seats of altogether 240 in Bulgarian parliament mid-June, Dnevnik dail
The Interior Ministry, headed by Yordanov and controlled by ex-PM Kostov, kept 10 bugged rooms in the `Samokov` hotel in the resort of Borovets, well-informed sources from the IM told `Standart`.
US ambassador to Bulgaria Richard Miles met businessmen and farmers from the Zavet municipality, a region with ethnically mixed population. He talked with participants in a Peace Corps project for
12 CEOs of Korean small and medium-sized enterprises fluent in the IT sector arrived on a five-day visit to Bulgaria to study the opportunities for trade and development of joint projects with Bulgarian partners. The delegation will visit Sofia, Veliko Ta
The European Union has allowed the import of live sheep, goats and cattle from Bulgaria, except for animals from the regions of Yambol, Haskovo, Kardzhali and Burgas, which are close to the border with Greece and Turkey, the ministry of agriculture said.
Internal debt to the commercial banks fell by 3.03% in the week to July 20 to a total of BGN 4.
The European Environment Agency accepted the membership of six EU candidate member countries. The Environment Agency is the first European institution to integrate candidate member countries.
A single register of compensatory notes and vouchers is planned to be set up with the Central Depository. The new government needs it in order to settle the problem with these instruments by collecting information about the amount and owners of compensato
Bulgaria may step up its electricity exports to neighbouring countries to 6 billion kW/h this year, said the CEO of the National Electric Company Danail Tafrov for Reuters. Last year Bulgaria
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