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POLITICS IN BRIEF

Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg will meet his Romanian counterpart Adrian Nastase on August 14 in the Borovets resort to discuss the Vidin-Calafat Danube bridge. ***

Politics | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

RAILWAYS PROGRAM LAUNCHED BY THE END OF 2001

`A new rehabilitation programme for the Bulgarian State Railways will be launched by this year`s end`, Transport Minister Plamen Petrov announced on Thursday. A new management concept will be developed for the troubled state-owned railways.

Business | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

PARLIAMENT ON A NEW IT LEVEL

BGN 680,000 from the parliamentary budget have been set aside for the purchase and installation of computer equipment in parliament, National Assembly General Secretary Ognyan Avramov said. The PC provider will be chosen under the Public Procurements A

Business | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

PM AND SOCIALISTS LEADER DISCUSS AGRARIAN CREDITS

The Bulgarian Socialist Party suggests that the government should provide low-interest credits in kind for farmers, such as seed and fuels, and also medium-term credits for fertilizers, party leader Georgi Parvanov said after meeting Prime Minister Simeon

Politics | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

KREMICOVTZI TO BUILD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

In the next 5 years Kremicovtzi Plc. steelworks will open 8 trade outlets around the country, worth a total of BGN 25 M, as part of its domestic distribution network, the board of directors decided.

Business | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

BUSINESS IN BRIEF

THE BULGARIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY must re-launch the tender on telephone highway cables` supplier, as only one candidate, the MG plant Elcable of Burgas, showed in the first tender. According to the Bulgarian legislation at least three bidders shou

Business | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

POLITICS IN BRIEF

The government`s BUDGET DEFICIT for the first seven months of year 2001 amounts to BGN 481 M, the Finance Ministry announced. The income stands at BGN 3.

Politics | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

ONE MINISTER IN SECRET SERVICES FILES

One of the ministers in the cabinet of Simeon Saxe-Coburg has a personal file in the former State Secret Services, it became known after the commission on secret files completed its check-up of the ministers in Simeon Saxe-Coburg`s Cabinet. The name of th

Politics | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

MEGLENA KUNEVA TO TAKE UP NEGOTIATIONS WITH EU

Meglena Kuneva from Simeon II National Movement will be the new chief negotiator with the European Union, Bulgarian e-newspaper Mediapool announced. She will replace the former Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Kisyov, who resigned with the argument that t

Politics | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

ELECTRONIC CERTIFICATES NETWORK TO BE BUILT IN BG

`The construction of a Bulgaria-based network for issuing e-certificates began`, Information Service Plc. announced.

Business | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

BULGARIA - THE COUNTRY OF EMPLOYED PAUPERS

Velitchka Rangelova, Dr.

Views on BG | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

WORKFORCE IN BULGARIA REACHED 50.4%

In June, the workforce in Bulgaria totalled 3,412,600 persons (50.4% of the population aged 15 or older).

Views on BG | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

MINISTER VASSILEV: I FORBID DISCUSSIONS ON POLITICAL SUBJECTS

Standart Daily Nikolay Vassilev

Views on BG | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

ECONOMY MINISTRY REDUCED BY 20 PER CENT SOON

Honesty, responsibility and professionalism are the three qualities, which will be valued in the Ministry of Economy. That was what its chief Nikolay Vassilev said yesterday at his first meeting with the chiefs of directorates in the Ministry, held in the

Business | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

KOREANS TO INVEST IN BULGARIAN HIGH TECH

Representatives of 12 Korean tech companies have arrived on a five-day visit to Bulgaria to seek opportunities for investing in the growing technology sector of the Balkan state. Delegation head Charm Lee told Reuters thatKorean companies had been attract

Business | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

BALKAN AIRLINES: BGN 10 MILLION REVENUE

He revenue made from March 12, when the Balkan Airlines were officially ruled insolvent, up to June 30, stands at BGN 9.656 million.

Business | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

BGN 30 MILLION INVESTED IN THE SEA SIDE HOTEL

The money initially invested in the reconstruction of the `International` hotel in `Zlatni Pyasatsi` (Golden Sands) resort equal 30 million levs, said Nikolay Valkanov, CEO of `MG Bulgaria` AD at the inauguration of the five-star hotel. Iliya Pavlov, pres

Business | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

PASSY DISCUSSED WITH ARAB AMBASSADORS

The relations between Bulgaria and the Arab world have great potentials for the development`, Foreign Minister Solomon Passy told journalists Tuesday after meeting the Arab ambassadors to Sofia. Passy announced that the diplomats discussed issues of mutua

Politics | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

ALL MINISTERS FINALLY SECURITY CLEAR

There are no officers or collaborators to the former State Security Service and the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of National Defense, Mohamed Redzheb of the commission on unclassifying the secret files, said. According to him, this is the firs

Politics | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

FOUR DEPUTY MINISTERS OF ECONOMY ALREADY NAMED

The names of the already clear deputy minsters of economy are Liubka Kachakova, Sofia Kassidova and Kaloian Ninov. They will assist minister Nikolay Vassilev, who is also Deputy Prime minister.

Politics | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

INTELLECTUALS BACK STOYANOV FOR SECOND MANDATE

Fifty-one Bulgarian intellectuals signed a declaration backing President Peter Stoyanov`s bid for a second term in office. Stoyanov, who was nominated presidential candidate by the Union of Democratic Forces in 1996, will run for a second term in office t

Politics | August 8, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00