Evgeny Bakardzhiev, the chairman of the most powerful UDF organization-the Sofia one, said yesterday that he will back Foreign Minister Nadezhda Mihaylova`s nomination for leader of the UDF, if Ivan Kostov resigns. According to Bakardzhiev the members of
I'm a very active person, keen on sports, while he is the intellectual type, says Queen Marguerita for Standart in Sofia - Your Majesty, have you been feeling like a queen all these years?
Scandals about resignations burst out in the UDF structures throughout the country, Standart daily reported. The regional leader of the UDF in Burgas gave in his resignation.
The natural position for the Coalition for Bulgaria, dominated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), in the 39th National Assembly is in opposition. The formation should not object if coalition experts are invited to the executive, BSP leader Georgi Pur
Key UDF leader and former chief of the foreign policy parliamentary commission Assen Agov demanded resignation of the UDF leader Ivan Kostov. The former chief of the Parliamentary foreign policy committee has made his appeal from private owned national w
The vote in Turkey will be contested in the Constitutional Court, said today member of the Central Electoral Commission Mihail Konstantinov. In his opinion `one of the political forces` will refer the case direct to the supreme magistrates.
IN ITS LAST report on Bulgaria Deutsche Bank voices expectations that Bulgaria's new government will present a new economic program,
BULGARIA has left behind half of the way to EU accession and the negotiations can be finalized by the end of 2005, which means that on January 1, 2007 Bulgaria can be roclaimed a EU member, said the Belgian ambassador, Edmond de Wilde, in Vratsa at a busi
The General shareholders` meeting of Albena AD, one of the biggest Black Sea resorts changed the board of directors today. The number of directors on the board was increased from five to seven.
Turkish minority dominated Movement for rights and freedoms will be our coalition partner, Solomon Passy, foreign policy adviser to King said today in a TV talk show. It is not possible to have Socialists and Union of Democratic Forces together in the gov
Soclialist Parrty leader Gerogi parvanov suvived today no-confidence vote at a specail party meeting. Socialists party executive body discussed today resignations appeals to the leadership after they lost the general elections last Sunday.
Better be gods of the silence than slaves of the words, King Simeon II advised today the newly elected members of parliament, who gathered to their first meeting in Sofia. National Movement, which won Sunday`s elections has 120 seats in the future Bulgari
A Bulgarian-Serbian joint venture, Vidtabac, will start a regular production of cigarettes in Paracin, Serbia, by the end of June. Machinery and equipment, owned by Bulfgaria`s Vidin BT factory, have been moved to Serbia and Bulgarian workers are now ins
The transition between the old and the new government will be relatively painless and pleasant, head of the Simeon II National Movement`s economic team Nikolai Vassilev said. `With us there will be no politically-motivated dismissals, we have no personal
`We much look forward to working with the new government, which you are beginning to put together. We are very conscious of Bulgaria`s importance as a bastion of regional stability and an example of ethnic tolerance,` British PM Tony Blair wrote to Simeon
Sofia - After national elections last weekend, only one thing is clear in Bulgarian politics: The king has won.
DUBLIN, Ireland - Ireland`s failure to ratify the Nice Treaty could hold up European Union enlargement, European Commission President Romano Prodi has warned. Prodi, who is in Dublin for a series of meetings, said it was essential the country vote in favo
Elections and governmental reshuffles in Bulgaria will not change the attitude of the World Bank towards the country, the WB Permanent Representative Thomas O`Brien said today. World Bank expressed interested in the economic policy that will be implemente
The US corporation `Entergy`, investing in the rehabilitation of the TPP Maritza-East 3 expressed its serious concerns about the statement of the king`s economic expert Milen Velchev about the upcoming deregulation of the energy sector, at a board meeting
King Simeon II met today President Peter Stoyanov on his invitation as a winner of the general elections last Sunday. King, who won with his movement 43 of the votes and has 50% of the seats in the parliament, told journalists he is hopeful after meetin
The King`s coalition appeals appointment of Bulgarian Ambassadors, Consuls and Charges d`affairs ad interim abroad to be stopped till the formation of the new government. This was distributed to the media in a fax signed by Solomon Pasi, leader the King`s
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