The Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture has published a report on Wednesday, assessing the history and progress of the European Union’s SAPARD program in the country. The balance sheet for the “Special Accession Program for Agricultural and Rural Development”program shows that more than BGN 500 M remained unabsorbed when the final payment was issued on December [...]
Bulgaria has managed to win back the trust of Brussels, which has unfrozen more than one billion euros of aid since the new center-right government came into office, the prime minister has announced. “Just for a few months the new cabinet managed to restore the trust of the European institutions and the first evidence is [...]
Three years after Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union, a whopping forty percent of its people say entry into the European family has made no difference, a survey shows. European Union membership is widely associated in Bulgaria with high living standards, order and safety, rules of law and free travels, but the majority say these [...]
Bulgarian MEP Evgeny Kirilov has warned that Rumyana Jeleva may fail in her EU Commissioner bid if she does not distance herself from the Turkish-language news referendum issue. Kirilov, a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), has appealed to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to extricate himself from this before “it turns [...]
Bulgaria’s President, Georgi Parvanov, has congratulated the Presidents of Serbia and Montenegro on the occasion of the abolition on Saturday of the EU visa regime for citizens of Serbia and Montenegro. The Bulgarian President sent telegrams to President Boris Tadic of Serbia and to Filip Vujanovic, Montenegro’s President, according to the Presidential press center. In [...]
The Plovdiv airport received on Christmas Day the first flight from the regular Moscow-Plovdiv line. The news was reported Friday by the Plovdiv airport press office. The line will operate year-round and is the first regular international line since the airport in Bulgaria’s second largest city opened in 1981. The “Airbus 319″ of the Russian [...]
Bulgaria’s largest and best known with high leveled services PR company M3 Communications Group, Inc, an associate of the global PR consultancy Hill & Knowlton, Inc., has celebrated its 15th birthday. Clients, businessmen, and diplomats flocked to the birthday party of M3 Communications Group, Inc, at Tiffany Club in Sofia Tuesday night to congratulate its [...]
Bulgaria’s cabinet decided Wednesday to cross off deals for a partnership with media tycoon Irena Krasteva in several top real estate projects owned by the National Revenue Agency. In 2008, the Stanishev Cabinet voted in favor of turning the four buildings (some of which are still under construction) from public state property into public private [...]
The Ministry’s press center, under the pressure to give information, later confirmed the bTV report. Djankov says he ordered the awards in the beginning of December and those experts earned them by working 24 hours a day in November to prepare the 2010 budget. The Minister reiterated that neither he nor any of his deputes [...]
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has declared on Thursday that the country already has a stable, sustainable fiscal policy. On a two-day visit to the north eastern region of Silistra, Djankov said that Bulgaria should also have a sound national economic strategy for the period after the crisis, along with regional [...]
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