More than a hundred former secret police agents have served in Bulgaria`s governments since the fall of communism, a parliamentary commission has revealed. The 121 agents included a former foreign affairs minister, defence minister and deputy prime minist
The mounting of advertising and commercial facilities will not be allowed near road junctions and crossroads, reads an ordinance on the special use of roads, which was passed by the cabinet yesterday.
YUGOSLAVIA becomes a member of the Black Sea Energy center in September, said Lyulin Radulov, chairing the center. THE CABINET approved the proposal of the State Telecommunications Commission for awarding a 15 year license to the Bulgarian National Telev
One of the world`s biggest investment banks, Bear Stearns, recommended to its clients yesterday to sell Bulgarian Collateralised Discount Bonds /DISCs/. Bulgaria`s Brady bonds rose considerably before and immediately
The American ambassador Richard Miles was a guest of Simeon II in `Vrana`. The diplomat arrived at 11 a.
The hypothesis about disintegration in Macedonia is not to be ruled out, Defence Minister Boyko Noev said yesterday before the governmental sitting. According to him, if the international community allows this, there would be serious threats for the whole
40% of the Bulgarian nationals live with less than 100 levs monthly, show the last data of the National Statistics Institute (NSI). The average annual earnings per capita is worth 1,587 levs, while per month it is 132.
The new government must preserve all quality cadres of the second ruling level - deputy ministers, department chief, experts, said Stefan Sofiyanski at the dinner party on Tuesday night with Simeon II in Vrana residence. It is necessary to preserve all pr
Tomorrow the King`s movement will start the official negotiations on the joint ruling. The first meeting will be with representatives of the UDF.
21 of 18 people from the executive council of the Euroleft party resigned during the session of the National party council. The leader Alexander Tomov reconfirmed his retirement from the elections` night.
BTC won the license for a digital TV network for $75 000. Four companies competed at the public tender in the National Palace of Culture: BTC, Ring CV, private cable television Evrotur Sat TV Engineering and Union Television.
Bulgaria started talks on the Justice/Home Affairs chapter during the extraordinary round of negotiations at the level of chief negotiators. In reality, the talks on this chapter should have started at the beginning of June but the presidency could not pr
The Finance Ministry suspended the funding of all projects under the so-called additional programme for investments in municipalities, outgoing Finance Minister Mouravei Radev announced. The decision was prompted by a statement of Vladimir Donchev, an MP
Bulgaria can expect to lose over $75 M by 2004 to software piracy, according to a report released by Datamonitor. It says the software piracy rate in Bulgaria stands today at 78%, nearly double the rate of Western Europe (34%).
We don`t witness any correctness to the executive power on the part of the new rule, declared premier Ivan Kostov after the meeting with President Stoyanov yesterday. The conversation, held on the request of Kostov, touched upon the crisis in Macedonia.
On Tuesday evening Sofia mayor Stephan Sofianski reportedly refused the proposal of the King to head the NMS II government, Standart daily says. The mayor, his wife Alice, Simeon II and Queen Margarita had a family dinner at the Vrana residence.
BULGARIA opened the justice and interior chapter at yesterday`s extraordinary round of the negotiations on EU accession at the level of chief negotiators. I am happy that this chapter was opened during Sweden`s presidency, Bulgarian chief negotiator Vladi
DEFENCE matters must be discussed in calm and professional atmosphere, said defence minister Boyko Noev, referring to the statement made yesterday by Solomon Passy, the head of the foreign affairs team of the national Movement for Simeon II regarding the
A MEMORANDUM of understanding in the process of liberalisation and facilitating trade between Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Romania was signed in Brussels yesterday. The signing of the document obliges the p
The triumph of King Simeon II`s `movement` in Bulgaria`s parliamentary elections has brought widespread media attention to the idea of a renewed Bulgarian monarchy. But Simeon is not the only monarch-in-waiting from the post communist world.
Four companies would bid for a 12-year licence to build and operate the first digital television network in Bulgaria, the State Communications Commission announced. `They are eligible to participate in the tender for a six-channel digital TV network in So
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