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Bulgaria has managed to acquired only 0.28% of the EU Cohesion funds that the country is entitled to, Sega daily reports Tuesday. |
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Bicycle riders from Sofia gathered in front of the building of the mayor's office on a silent protest against the unfulfilled election promise of mayor Boyko Borisov that bike alleys will be built throughout the city, Tuesday. |
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Macedonia's President, Branko Crvenkovski, arrives today to Bulgaria on a official two-day visit, which may in fact turn out to be his last, since president elections are to take place in Macedonia on March 22nd, Darik reports Tuesday. |
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Bulgaria wants to keep the currency board until its admission in the Eurozone, the Minister of Economics and energy peter Dimitrov said Monday. |
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Bulgarian parliamentary opposition party Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria will start talks with other opposition formations this week about a possible new vote of no confidence against the current government, its leader Ivan Kostov announced Monday. |
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Sofia's city court rejected a request by alleged crime boss Krasimir Marinov, nicknamed the Big Margin, to leave the country and receive treatment of his discal hernia Monday. |
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Bulgaria's state owned gas supply company Bulgargaz will lower the prices for the final consumer by 11,5% on April first, Minister of Economics and Energy Peter Dimitrov announced Monday. |
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Sheep breeders from Southwest Bulgaria have threatened to block the main checkpoint between Bulgaria and Greece if the government doesn't pay them promised subsidies for farm land and pasture grounds, DeltaNews reports Monday. |
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Around 60% of the Swiss people voted for the agreement with the EU allowing free movement of its citizens in Switzerland at a referendum on the issue Sunday. |
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The extended deadline before the new Law for Conflict of Interests comes into power might cause Bulgaria to lose another 12 billion Euros of EU aid from operative programs, Ivan Kostov, leader of rightist party DSB and former PM, warned Friday. |
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A bi-sexual prisoner from the jail in Sliven has won a case against a prosecutor who had discriminated her sexually, DeltaNews reports Thursday. |
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The combined value of two contracts that the Bulgarian National Agency for Road Infrastructure (NAPI) had to cancel due to conflict of interests is EUR20 million, its executive director, Yanko Yankov, announced Thursday. |
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The mayor of the Vetovo Municipality near Ruse, Reyhan Habil, has been arrested by the local police minutes after he had taken a EUR1,000 bribe from a local businessman, the police reports Thursday. |
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The main checkpoint on the border between Bulgaria and Greece - Kulata-Promachonas, remains blocked by protesting Greek farmers, the Bulgarian Border Police reports Thursday. |
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Bulgarian President Goergi Parvanov's visit to Moscow for the official start of the Year of Bulgaria in Russia is the main topic of the Russian media Wednesday. |
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Bulgaria might start receiving the money on the EU's ISPA program in March, vice PM Meglena Plugicheva and the European Commissioner on Regional Policy, Danuta Hübner, agreed on Wednesday. |
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Bulgaria will support Macedonia's ambition to join NATO and the EU, Bulgarian president Georgi parvanov said Tuesday during the official start of his Macedonian counterpart, Branko Crvenkovski's visit to Sofia, Bulgaria. |
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The new vote of no confidence against the current government doesn't put forward people's problems, but the personal motives of the parties undertaking it, the ruling socialist party's spokesperson, Korneliya Ninova, commented Tuesday. |
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Bulgarian students, eco-activists and pensioners will undertake new protests in front of the houses of the parliament, starting Wednesday at 11:00 AM, Darik reports. |
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Bulgaria's energy strategy until 2020 will be discussed at a forum on Wednesday, where Minister of Economics and energy Peter Dimitrov is also to take place, Darik reports. |
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The idea for the creation of a parliamentary commission that would research cases of police brutality and death in custody split the Bulgarian ruling coalition, Darik reports Wednesday. |
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The Ministry for Emergency Situations has alarmed its regional directions that severe snowfalls are expected on Thursday, February 12th. |
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The Bulgarian Ministry of Finance has bought eight patrol craters for the Sea Administration agency, that it hasn't yet fully paid for, Rosen Marinov, chairman of Avtoinzhinering, the company that sold them told DeltaNews on Wednesday. |
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The EU's report on Bulgaria that is supposed to be made published today will be yet again quite critical, DeltaNews reports Thursday. |
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Opposition MP´s from the Bulgarian Parliament admitted that the vote of no confidence that they are planning to file against the current government, 7th for its mandate, will likely fail, but it also seeks secondary goals, Thursday. |
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The Bulgarian police has arrested one adult and four minors who had desecrated Christian graves near the village of Opalchensko in the Muslim dominated region of Kurdzhali, the Interior Ministry announced on Thursday. |
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Bulgaria's government nominated Wednesday former foreign minister Solomon Passy as a candidate for NATO Secretary General. |
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A party led by Sofia's current populist Mayor Boyko Borisov and the incumbent Socialists are most likely to dominate Bulgaria's parliament after forthcoming summer general elections, a pollster predicted Wednesday. |
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Bulgaria's government nominated Wednesday former foreign minister Solomon Passy as a candidate for NATO Secretary General. |
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Atanas Atanasov, an ill-famed private law enforcer from the city of Plovdiv, has been admitted in a critical condition in a local hospital after he was beaten down on the street, DeltaNews reports. |
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A prisoner died in the inquiry arrest in the city of Targovishte, marking the third similar case in Bulgaria in a month, DeltaNews reports Friday. |
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The Political Council of Bulgaria's ruling three way coalition will discuss recent political issues at its session on Friday afternoon. |
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We came out of the 'stone age' in terms of communication with the EU, Gergana Grancharova, Bulgarian Minister of European Affairs, commented the EU's report on Bulgaria for bTV on Friday. |
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More and more Greeks seek jobs in Bulgaria, as well as the opposite - Bulgarians working in Greece, Alpha TV reports Thursday. |
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The State Agency for National Security and the Ministry of Interior should strengthen their co-ordination with the National Revenue Agency in order to battle VAT draining, Bulgarian PM Sergei Stanishev said Friday. |
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Maria Murgina, chief of Bulgaria's National Revenue Agency (NAP), resigned on Thursday with the official motive that the communication between the agency and the government was done through the media. |
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The Bulgarian government will redirect BGN250 mil (EUR125 mil) from its investment program in order to help the real economy in the time of crisis, the ruling three way coalition's council decided late on Friday. |
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Bulgaria's deputy minister of health care Emil Raynov is accused of demanding monthly cash kickbacks totaling up to EUR2.8 million, the International Herald Tribune reports Friday. |
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Bulgarian PM Sergei Stanishev and Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov will make the first dig of the new expansion of Sofia's subway system Sunday. |
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Some of Bulgaria´s biggest businessmen have demanded that the government enforces a moratorium on the interest rates of credits taken by people whose only home is mortgaged Friday. |
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Bulgaria's local authorities are the place where the most sever cases of conflict of interests have taken place, Dnevnik daily reports Monday. |
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The Belogradchik Rocks, a natural rock formation, tops its group in the competition for the seven new natural wonders of the world Monday. |
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Bulgarian PM Sergei Stanishev is involved in the VAT draining schemes over which the National Revenue Agency chief Maria Murgina was removed, claims Martin Dimitrov, chairman of opposition party Union of Democratic Forces (SDS) Monday. |
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Bulgarian opposition party Union of Democratic Forces (SDS) presented its own plan for a way out of the economic crisis in Bulgaria, relying mostly on tax cuts, Monday. |
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A series of power shocks made the Bulgarian border police close down Kulata border checkpoint with Greece, DeltaNews reports Monday. |
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The European People's Party chairman Wilfried Martens is on an official two day visit to Bulgaria where he will meet with the leaders of Bulgarian parties that are a part of EPP, Tuesday. |
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Soviet spies sent an assassin to Poland to kill the Pope during the Cold War to try and prevent the collapse of the Iron Curtain, The Daily Mail reports Monday. |
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Nero, a bar located on Sofia, Bulgaria's main avenue, Vitosha, was blown up at 1:00 AM on Wednesday. |
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Bulgaria is set to lose another EUR6,25 million of EU aid on the PHARE program, Dnevnik daily reports Wednesday. |
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It is impossible that a prosecutor has warned the former chief of the National Revenue Agency, Mariya Murgina about an upcoming investigation against her, Boris Velchev, Bulgaria's chief prosecutor said Wednesday. |
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Bulgaria has been depositing money acquired through VAT draining into local oligarchs' Swiss bank accounts, opposition MP Yane Yanev said after submitting evidential documents in the Prosecution Wednesday. |
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Fourteen pilots from Bulgaria Air have been fired due to staff cuts in the airlines, DeltanNews reports Wednesday. |
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The Bulgarian Parliament let through the changes in the law for electronic messages that would let the police read through e-mails and chat logs of Internet users, Darik reports Thursday. |
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A senior stet official in the Bulgarian customs with the status of a deputy chef for has been involved in VAT draining schemes for 11 years, claims opposition MP Yane Yanev, Thursday. |
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Bulgaria ranks 64th out of 104 in Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index chart for 2008, Thursday. |
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Bulgarian nationalist party ATAKA and a group of its sympathisers have besieged the Turkish embassy in downtown Sofia, demanding an official apology for the five century Turkish ilk, Thursday. |
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The European Commission has initiated two punitive procedures against Bulgaria, one for tax discrimination, the other about EU lawyers not being allowed to practice in the country, Thursday. |
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After almost all of Bulgaria's republican road network was blocked on Friday due to excessive snowfall, there are major icings expected on Saturday due to the low temperatures. |
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Serbian border police has caught a smuggle travelling on a bus from Bulgaria to France with 225,000 dinars (EUR2,338) worth of medicine hidden in his luggage Saturday. |
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A scandal linked with grandiose affairs in Bulgaria's Customs Agency will shake the country next week, MP Yane Yanev, who will file evidential documents in the prosecution, told Darik Sunday. |
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A project that aims to provide jobs for people over 50 and long time unemployed has been initiated by the Bulgarian social ministry, Monday. |
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The current Bulgarian government's health care system is lethal to the people, as its planning has been made without the crisis in consideration, opposition rightist party Union of Democratic Forces' (SDS) ruling body declared on Monday. |
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The Bulgarian Ministry of Interior will cut 1100 from its employees by April, Minister of Interior Mihail Mikov told members of the media Monday. |
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Bulgaria's ambassador to the UN Petko Draganov has been appointed deputy secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Monday. |
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A package with an explosive device was found in a package left on the street in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria in front of a popular night club, the Interior Ministry press service reports Tuesday. |
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The record central heating bills that Bulgarian citizens received in January will be re-calculated, minister of economy and energy Peter Dimitrov said Tuesday. |
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The Bulgarian government has spent almost 4 million euros for an information system within the National Revenue Agency (NAP) that never started working, independent MP Mariya Kapon announced Tuesday. |
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Alessandro Butiche, spokesperson to OLAF, the EU's anti-fraud office, spent an hour and a half at a meeting in the office of Bulgaria's chief Prosecutor, Tuesday. |
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There have been a total of 2511 economic crimes throughout 2008 on the territory of Sofia alone, the Sofia City Prosecution announced, Klasa daily reports Wednesday. |
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Syrian-born arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for conspiring to sell weapons to Colombian militants while knowing they sought to kill Americans, the Associated Press reports. |
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There is a possibility that the EC may pay further compensations to Bulgaria for the two closed reactors of the country's Kozloduy NPP, Ferran Tarradellas Espuny, spokesperson for the Commissioner on Energy, said Wednesday. |
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The Bulgarian Parliament started the debates on the seventh vote of no confidence that the opposition files against the current Cabinet Wednesday. |
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The economic crisis has resulted in the slowdown of various mall-type trade centers' construction in Bulgaria, DeltaNews reports Wednesday. |
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Ukrainian company Smart Group withdrew its offer for investment in Bulgaria's troubled Kremikovtzi steel plant Wednesday. |
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Bulgarians breathe the most polluted air in all of Europe, 24 Chasa daily reports from its first page Thursday, quoting a report of the Ministry of Environment and Waters. |
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Fifty eight Bulgarian companies are urgently looking for a buyer in London, Dnevnik daily reports Thursday. |
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A Macedonian high priest has initiated a plan to dig up all the Bulgarian soldiers and officers from World War One and Two buried on the former Yugoslav republic's territory and move them to one single bone vault. |
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Independent MP Vladimir Kuzov, who was sentenced to 5 years of probation over charges of pedophilia, has also been removed from the Bulgarian parliament Wdnesday. |
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Everyone in Bulgaria who has acquired properties valuated over 500,000 leva (EUR250,000) will be investigated, the Minister of European Affairs Grgana Pasi announced Thursday. |
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Bulgaria's security services have detected information for a possible assassination attempt against opposition MP Yane Yanev, famous for delivering a series of corruption signals to the Prosecution Friday. |
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Heavy traffic is expected on Bulgaria's road network on Friday, before a four day stream of work free days begins. |
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CEZ, power supplier for West Bulgaria, the capital of Sofia included, has requested a 10.5% increase in the price of electricity from July 1st on, Friday. |
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Eleven patients have been infected with Hepatitis C due to staff negligence in the Municipal Hospital in the Bulgarian town of Teteven, BNT reports Friday. |
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A new rightist coalition is being formed in Bulgaria, as parliamentary parties Union of the Democratic Forces (SDS) and Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) are in an advanced stage of the talks among them, Sunday. |
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The Lesovo border checkpoint between Bulgaria and Turkey will be temporarily closed due to construction works on Monday, the Bulgarian Ministry of State Administration reports. |
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Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivaylo Kalfin will make an official visit to India according to an invitation by Pranab Mukherjee, India's Minister of External Affairs, Monday. |
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A train carrying radioactive scrap through Serbia to Macedonia has been returned to Bulgaria by the Serbian authorities after a inspection at the Dimitrovgrad border checkpoint, Blic daily reports Monday. |
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Nearly 3000 newborns and children under three have been abandoned by their parents in Bulgaria throughout 2007, a statistic by For Our Children Foundation revealed Monday. |
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Bulgaria is doing everything it could to join the eurozone, considered a kind of a Noah's Ark in the times of financial crisis, Monday. |
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Bulgaria's slip into recession will be a 'soft landing' into the crisis, rather than a catastrophe, economic experts told AFP Monday. |
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Peter Zikulov, a Bulgarian national, and Floricel Achim, a Romanian military officer, were arrested in Bucharest on Monday on charges of spying for a third party country that is not a EU and NATO member. |
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Bulgaria marks Tuesday its national holiday, the 131st anniversary since the country's liberation from the Ottoman Empire. |
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Thousands gathered at a rally organized by Bulgarian right wing nationalist party ATAKA in downtown Sofia on Bulgaria's national holiday Tuesday. |
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The European Commission has once again, politely, shown a 'yellow card' to Bulgaria, this time stopping the signing of new contracts for canalisation infrastructure, Dnevnik daily reports Wednesday. |
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The merchants are the most polite ones on the Balkans, a research announced at the Mystery Shopping Day Conference reveals, quoted by Jutranji List daily Tuesday. |
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The Prosecution is very worried by the phenomenon of vote buying in Bulgaria, the country's Chief Prosecutor, Boris Velchev said Wednesday. |
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The Bulgarian Parliament is debating Wednesday the necessity of changes in the Constitution that would allow both the elections for the National and the European Parliament to be held on the same day. |
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There is a threat of a new gas supplies crisis, Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy, peter Dimitrov announced Wednesday. |
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A lawyer has been provided for Bulgarian national Petar Zikulov, who was arrested in Romania on allegations of spying for a third country, not a member of the EU or NATO, BGNES reports Wednesday. |
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The Bulgarian Parliament voted Thursday against the proposal to make a change in the Constitution that would allow both the elections for the European Parliament and the national one to be held on the same day. |
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The State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) denied the request of the three private power supply companies CEZ, EVN and E.ON fro a 10% increase of the price of electricity since July 1st on Thursday. |
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Vasil Chichibaba, who was Minister of Agriculture in Bulgaria between 1995 and 1997, is on trial today in Sofia's City Court on accusations of inflicting 66 billions of dollars of damage to the economy Thursday. |
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Around 8 thousand pensioners in Bulgaria will go on government sponsored vacations at seaside and mountain resorts in 2009, Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Emiliya Maslarova announced Thursday. |
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The high inflation rate is the last barrier in Bulgaria's way to the eurozone, the Bulgarian National bank's manager Ivan Iskrov said Thursday. |
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Over 3,000 could receive amnesty in Bulgaria, states a new draft law that has been approved on its first reading by the Bulgarian Parliament Friday. |
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Five parties will gather enough votes to jump over the 4% entry bar for the Bulgarian Parliament at the elections this summer, a Sova Haris survey reveals Friday. |
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More and more Romanian businessmen are tempted to move their companies to Bulgaria, Romania's Gandul daily reports Friday. |
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An 16 year old driver without a licence caused a heavy traffic incident with seven wounded in Bulgaria's capital of Sofia after hitting three cars in the opposite lane Friday. |
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Bulgaria's capital of Sofia is experiencing a major crisis with trash gathering as Novera, the company responsible for cleaning 19 districts of the city, stopped doing it after not being paid by the municipality for its work in January. |
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Georgi Tsvetanov, son of Tsanko Tsvetanov, regional leader of rightist party Union of Democratic forces in the Bulgarian seaside city of Varna, is the main suspect for the brutal murder of a 21 year old student. |
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Workers from Bulgaria's Kremikovtzi steel mill took on the streets in downtown Sofia, protesting in front of the Economyc Ministry's building Monday. |
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Nearly two million of Bulgaria's 7.5 million population are active smokers, data by the European Union's "Help for a life without tobacco" program reveals Monday. |
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Bulgarian far-right nationalist party ATAKA members took Monday to the village of Bunovo to mark the 24 year anniversary of a train bombing by the terrorist organization Turkish Liberation Movement. |
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One of the demands of the protesting workers from Bulgaria's Kremikovtzi steel mill is to receive compensations, valuing as much as 30 monthly wages, if they retire, Monday. |
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Despite weather forecasts in the last few days that had been warning of heavy snowfall, Sofia's city authorities were once again 'surprised' by the storm Tuesday. |
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Former Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister, Solomon Passy, who was proposed as a NATO secretary-general candidate is most likely to miss the job Tuesday. |
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Bulgarians are predominately pessimistic regarding the future of their country as well as their personal lives, a survey by the National Center for Popular Opinion Research shows Tuesday. |
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The Sofia City Prosecution has called the State Agency for National Security to investigate the situation with trash disposal in Sofia, after Saturday's signal by Mayor Boyko Borisov that the city's residents' health was in danger. |
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The Union of Democratic Forces (DSD) and Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) will form a coalition for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Tuesday. |
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Industrial manufacture in Bulgaria has shrunk with 19% for January alone due to the crisis, the National Statistic Institute reported Tuesday. |
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Bulgarian milk producers will gather on yet another protest in front of the agriculture ministry building, demanding the payment of subsidies per capita, Tuesday. |
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Bulgaria will join the World Wildlife Fund's annual Earth Hour initiative for 2009 under the patronage of European Affairs Minister Gergana Passy, Wednesday. |
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According to Bulgaria's minister of interior affairs Mihail Mikov the economic crisis had created a criminal situation in the country Thursday. |
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Three Turkish cities have broken their twin cities agreements with Bulgarian ones and nine more are about to do it over the latter's acceptance of declarations viewing the events of 1915 as genocide over Armenians. |
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Sofia Mayor's GERB party is the most likely partner for Bulgaria's now unified traditional rightist parties after the elections, former PM and Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria leader Ivan Kostov told Nova TV Thursday. |
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Our policy has always been to show up at elections alone and this is what we will do this time again, Milen Velchev, deputy chairman of former Bulgarian king Simeon Saxe Cobourg-Gotha's NDSV party told BNT Thursday. |
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Almost 150 000 Bulgarian emigrants have been forced to return home by the global financial crisis, a survey by a group of Bulgarian trade unions and sociologists revealed Thursday, quoted by Standart daily. |
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Opposition MP Yane Yanev met with the chairman of Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security, Petko Sertov, presenting him information about radical Islamist activity in the country Thursday. |
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If we don't undertake emergency measures there might be a crumble in the revenue part of the budget, Bulgaria's National Revenue Agency (NAP) chairman Krasimir Stefanov told MP's on Thursday. |
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The monthly inflation for February compared to January 2009 0.1%, data by the National Statistic Institute shows Thursday. |
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The residents of the Bulgarian city of Haskovo gathered at a protest against the mayor Georgi Ivanov, who is alleged of taking bribes and other corruption activities Friday. |
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A new draft traffic law that has been submitted in the Parliament by members of the Bulgarian Socialist Party suggests the implementation of tougher rules for unexperienced drivers Friday. |
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The Mayor of the Bulgarian town of Garmen, Ahmed Bashev, has been arrested during the night Sunday before Monday over allegations of spreading radical Islam, DeltaNews reports. |
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Sofia's City Court postponed once again the case against former Sofia central heating chief Valentin 'The Heat' Dimitrov who, along with four other former managers, is accused stealing 6 million leva (EUR3 mil) from the company, DeltaNews reports Monday. |
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Around 300 to 400 Bulgarian Roma, who work in the field of trash gathering in Sofia, have gathered on a spontaneous protest against the Municipality's decision to cut the deal with cleaning company Novera, DeltaNews reports Monday. |
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An inner investigation in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia's 5th Police Department revealed shocking case of hiding crime cases involving employees all the way up in the hierarchy, Darik reports Monday. |
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Bulgaria has done a lot of work in the last few years and the volume of the reforms is comparable to a revolution, PM Sergei Stanishev said at a meeting with the ambassadors of EU Member states in Sofia on Monday. |
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Boyko Borisov, Mayor of Sofia and leader of the GERB party has told Reuters on Monday that his party would win the parliamentary election this summer by a landslide and reverse Bulgaria's status as the EU's poorest and most corrupt nation. |
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The issue of monthly wages went in the way of Bulgarian PM Sergei Stanishev's plan to call extra experts from EU member states in order to help implement reforms in the country, Dnevnik online reports Monday. |
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According to Bulgaria's Minister of Interior, Mihail Mikov, Sunday's policemen protest in Sofia had gone over the line, BTA reports Tuesday. |
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Students from all the universities in the Bulgarian seaside city of Varna gather on Tuesday at a mourning march dedicated to recently murdered Radostina Evtimova. |
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There is a danger of a reproduction of corporate obligations, including between separate companies, that my cause a chain of bankruptcies in Bulgaria, the Industrial Chamber's deputy chairman Kamen Kolev told BNR Tuesday. |
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There had been celebrations of the September 11 terrorist attacks in some villages in the Bulgarian Rodopi mountain, MP Yane Yanev revealed late Monday, quoted by novinite.com. |
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Bulgaria is financially more stable than some of its neighbors but its economy would be deeply affected by the global downturn, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) head Thomas Mirow said on Tuesday. |
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Students from universities in Sofia will protest in front of the Bulgarian Parliament as a sign of solidarity with their colleagues from Varna who protested yesterday against the brutal murder of Radostina Evtimova. |
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Because of the crisis this year municipalities will lose over 1 billion leva (EUR500 million) of revenues, Dnevnik daily reports Wednesday. |
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The idea to provide monthly vouchers of 100 leva (EUR50) to parents who bring their children in private kindergartens has been abandoned, the vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Social Committee, Hristina Hristova announced Wednesday. |
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Agriculture Minister Valeri Tsvetanov has been fined with EUR 2000 for his second consecutive failure to present income statements, requested by the Sofia District Court. |
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Prosecutors and State Agency for National Security (DANS) agents have begun an investigation in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Monday morning, Sofia City Prosecutor Nikolay Kokinov announced. |
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The European Commissioner for Health, Androulla Vasiliou, is making an official visit to Bulgaria on Thursday. |
