The first young eastern imperial eagles in Bulgaria for 2012 have hatched in the wild Sakar and Strandzha Mountains in Bulgaria’s south-eastern corner. In the last few days three of the monitored imperial eagle couples have hatched out their young, announced the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds(BSPB). Breeding in southeastern Europe through Central Asia, the eastern imperial eagle is classified as [...]
May 15, 2012 | Posted in
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Up to BGN 600 000 from the returned bonuses account will be transferred to the budgets of the Council of Ministries and the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs for the organization and execution of the tribute campaign. The fund will be used for repairs and rebuilding of monuments ofsoldiers who have perished in the Wars, for displays, reinstatement of historical documents, and [...]
May 15, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, wished success to the two major parties in the now former right-wing Blue Coalition, after news reports about the latter’s breakup. “Both the Union of Democratic Forces, UDF, and Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, DSB, are our political partners in the European right wing and in the European People’s Party, EPP, and I wish them success,” Borisov told the media Tuesday. [...]
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The European Commission has come up with a neutral statement regarding the recent assault against Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Macedonia Ivan Petkov. The issue has to be resolved at a bilateral level, according to Peter Stano, spokesman of EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele. “If the case is criminal, we expect local authorities to investigate it, adhering to the rule of law,” Stano has stated, [...]
May 15, 2012 | Posted in
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The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) will file a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights over the death of a 15-year-old at a state-run childcare institution. The human rights NGO will sue the state over the death of a 15-year-old mentally disabled girl at an institution located in the northeastern village of Strazha. The girl died in 2006 [...]
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The vanishing of sentenced Bulgarian businessmen known as Galevi Brothers will have a negative effect on the EU‘s July monitoring report on Bulgaria, according to Bulgarian Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov. “Of course, there is no way that this event can be positively taken. The European Commission has repeatedly insisted that it wants to see criminals punished,” explained Tsvetanov. Controversial Dupnitsa businessmen Plamen Galev and Angel Hristov were convicted [...]
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov and Qatari PM Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thaniin Bulgaria on Friday, reports say. Al Thani is to arrive to the Bulgarian capital on Thursday on the invitation of Borisov, while Erdogan’s short visit on Friday was announced yesterday. The Bulgarian National Radio has cited [...]
May 15, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach expects to welcome large groups of Russians, Brits, Germans and Irish in the last ten days of May 2012, according to Elena Ivanova from the Union of Hotel Owners in Sunny Beach. In Ivanova’s words, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA), demand before the start of the summer season indicates that the industry will [...]
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The preferential prices for purchasing energy from renewable sources will be reduced from July 1, 2012, according to Angel Semerdzhiev, Chair of the State Commission for Energy and Eater Regulation (DKEVR). “Analysis is now underway, but energy prices will definitely drop, especially prices of energy generated by photovoltaic plants, because capital expenditures are also decreasing,” the DKEVR Chair explained Tuesday, [...]
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The Gross Domestic Product, GDP, in Bulgaria in the first quarter of 2011 increased by 0.5%, compared with the same quarter of the previous year. GDP remains at the same level compared to the fourth quarter of 2011. These flash estimates were released Tuesday by the Bulgarian National Statistics Institute, NSI. According to the flash GDP estimates for the first quarter of 2012, the GDP at [...]
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