At a meeting with parliamentary deputy speaker Kamelia Kasabova, representatives of six local organizations of disabled people insisted that a national program for the social integration of the disabled is drafted by 2003.
President-elect Parvanov and Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg said that there are no issues on which they have different stands after an hour long working breakfast in the Hilton Sofia hotel. That was the first meeting between Parvanov and Saxe-Coburg since his
A four-star hotel construction was launched at the site of the Riviera Hotel Club situated on the Black Sea coast near Varna. The hotel is part of the Riviera’s expansion plan and will cost BGN 10 M.
Bulgarian Finance Minister Milen Velchev participated in a meeting of the finance ministers from Ecofin Council and G-13 in Brussels. Minister Velchev presented the economic program of the government to Pedro Solbes, Economy and Finance Commissioner, C.
The Parliamentary budget and finance committee recommended that higher depreciation costs for cars be applied as of 2002. The move is expected to meet the demands of local taxi drivers.
Two associations of Bulgarian hotel and restaurants owners expressed concerns about the new Tourism Bill, approved by the Cabinet a month ago. According to them the bill empowers the state to develop sector policies in favor of the big owners.
Imports of soyoil from Argentina and rapeseed oil from Germany are to substitute the expensive Bulgarian sunoil on the domestic market and cover the shortage caused by the poor sunseed crop, Reuters reported, citing Bulgarian analysts. Bulgaria already im
Four candidates submitted bids with the Privatization Agency for the 57% state-owned stake in Bulgaria’s Alen Mak cosmetics producer by the deadline on December 3. The Privatization Agency set the initial price of the stake at USD 3,95 M.
The receivers of Balkan Airlines, Olga Milenkova and Hristo Mollov, have chosen a new company to evaluate the flag carrier’s assets, Pari daily wrote. The new evaluating company will be Iliev & Co.
Mehmet Nuri Yilmaz, Head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) and spiritual leader of Muslims in Turkey, gave a religious dinner on December 3. Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg, the Chief Mufti of Muslims in Bulgaria and ministers attended the dinn
The negotiations between representatives of the Confederation of the Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria, the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the management of the State Railways Company continued late in to the evening of December 3, but no
The two most recently formed parties in Bulgaria and Greece are both parties of free, self-made people united to fight for justice for all people, the Sofia and Athens Mayors agreed at their meeting on December 3. Stefan Sofianski and Dimitrios Avramopou
The privatisation strategy of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company will be tabled in Parliament by the end of January, Apostol Apostolov, Executive Director of the Privatization Agency announced. By January, the consultant Deutsche Bank will have to b
The Burgas branch of Biochim Bank seized forged compensatory papers worth BGN 1,8 M, Georgi Georgiev, deputy district governor announced on December 3. It was only last week that the fraud was discovered by bank officials.
The Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy left on his first working visit to the US from Bucharest, where he attended the Ninth Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In Washington, Passy is scheduled to
BGN 28 M from the budget will be granted for the liquidation of the mining enterprises during 2002. That emerged after a working meeting on the mining and energy problems, organized by the Confederation of the Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria and the
The indictment against Michael Chernoy and Gad Zeevi will be filed in court within two months, “Globes” Izraeli Daily reported, citing a source from the police. The article points out that ever since he emigrated in 1994 he has been suspected of being one
Over 200 former miners from Zlatograd protested against the postponement of the sale of the enterprise Gorubso-Zlatograd which is announced for liquidation.
The Executive Board of Tobacco Fund decided to grant premium of BGN 1.50 per kilogram for Virginia tobacco brand from the 2001 harvest.
The Greek Environment Ministry will grant a total of EUR 2 M for joint Greek-Bulgarian environmental projects, Bulgarian Minister of Environment and Waters Dolores Arsenova and Greek Ambassador to Bulgaria Michalis Christidis decided at their meeting on D
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Passy discussed with his Russian counterpart the visit of Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg to Russia. Both officials underscored that there are no reasons to believe that there are problems in the Bulgarian-Russian relations.
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