Assigning EUR 336 B to poorer regions between 2007 and 2013, the EU Commission provided for a 40 % increase in regional funding aimed to take the new members into account. More than half - 52 % - of the funds will go to economically disadvantaged regions
Bulgaria needs to consider the possibility to prepare and adopt a special law against terrorism, the country's former police chief Gen. Vassil Vassilev told private bTV channel on Thursday.
Concessions for Bulgarian airports will be granted as of 2005, under amendments to the Civil Aviation Act, which the parliamentary economic commission adopted on Wednesday.
EU accession countries are increasing their attractiveness as favoured places for investments, an analysis of London-based Ernst&Young over investments in Europe 2003 shows. The upcoming member countries have attracted 14 % more investors to their econom
Bulgaria marked on Thursday the 131st anniversary since the death of the national hero Vassil Levski (1837-1873), the leading revolutionary of the national movement for Liberation from the nearly 500 years of Ottoman rule.
Top US companies are shifting eyes to Eastern Europe when it comes to decision-making about investments, according to a survey by the American Chambers of Commerce in Germany and the Boston Consulting Group, EUObserver reported. The survey has approached
Firemen Thursday extinguished the last blazes on a runaway freight train loaded with fuel and chemicals that blew up in eastern Iran and killed nearly 300 people, allowing rescue workers to start digging for more victims. Revolutionary guards cordoned off
A blast rocked the home of Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat early on Thursday, hours before landmark reunification talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots were due to begin, world agencies reported. It shattered windowpanes and damaged th
Bulgaria's National Electricity Company (NEC) is ready to increase its power export to Greece to back up its electricity grid during the Olympic Games 2004, the state power utility announced. Yet there is no official asking from Greece to Bulgaria to bac
A new right-wing faction is likely to pop up till end of the week, uniting around former UDF leader and former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov, it became known on Wednesday night. The news went off after Ivan Kostov stated to his supporters, convoked in a uni
Bulgaria's participation in the major 2004 international tourism fairs - in Berlina, Moscow, Kiev and London - is put at stake after none of the six bidders accomplished the procurement criteria set by the Executive Agency for National Tourism Promotion a
Greece's national football team won a 2-0 victory over Bulgaria's in a friendly match that took place in Athens on Wednesday evening. It was Papadoupulos who notched up first, in the 26th minute of the game.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac called Wednesday for the appointment of a European commissioner charged exclusively with pushing through economic reforms. The three held a special
Democratic nominee and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean announced Wednesday his decision to quit the race for the US presidential post. "I am no longer actively pursuing the presidency," Dean said, but underlined his campaign for change still continued
Rescuers in Russia's capital Moscow found another dead body in the ruins of the water park roof that collapsed last weekend, the city's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov announced Wednesday. This makes for a total of 26 victims, and Luzhkov said that no one else was lef
If problems with Bulgaria's current account deficit persist, budget deficit for 2004 might be set at 0%, Bulgaria's Finance Minister Milen Velchev, cited by local media, said Wednesday. The minister was a guest lecturer at a meeting with representatives
Some 300 people were killed and another hundreds of others injured when runaway train cars carrying flammable fuel products derailed and exploded near a populated area in northeastern Iran, near the town of Neyshabur in Khorassan province. The train was
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The European Union (EU) Regional Policy Commissioner Michel Barnier defended the allotting of larger sums of money to the Union's poorer neighbors on the east, Eupolitix.com wrote Wednesday.
At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 58 foreign troops wounded Wednesday morning in a double car bomb attack on a Polish base at Hilla, about 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad. No Bulgarian troops were wounded in the twin bomb attacks, Bulgaria's Defence
Six Bulgarians suspected of car thefts and a murder, have been arrested in Spain, officials at Bulgaria's Interior Ministry said Wednesday. During the joint operation of Spanish and Bulgarian police, dwelling places the suspects were searched, and illega
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