Bulgaria’s ex Energy Minister, Rumen Ovcharov, plans to refer to the Prosecutor’s Office two crucial energy deals made in the late 1990s. Ovcharov, who was the Economy and Energy Minister in the Stanishev government in 2005-2007, and is currently a MP from the opposition Socialist Party, has made it clear he is eager to oppose [...]
Bulgaria’s Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, declared that there aren’t any disagreements between him and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov. Traikov spoke in an interview for Darik radio Saturday, addressing reports that the two do not see eye to eye regarding the project to build a second Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the Danube [...]
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has stated that the center-right GERB government will want a mandate from all of the Parliamentary groups to adopt any plan to accept Guantanamo Bay prisoners from the US. “There is European and NATO solidarity. Just like them we seek support for everything from our Euro-Atlantic partners, President Obama is now [...]
The Russian Energy Ministry has stated that Bulgaria is interested in all of the planned Russian-Bulgarian energy projects, in a press release Saturday. The press release, quoted by RIA Novosti, stated that “The Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism of Bulgaria Traicho Traikov expressed interest in principle in the implementation of general energy projects with [...]
The German energy company RWE has decided to withdraw from the construction of Bulgaria’s second nuclear power plant at Belene over the failure to achieve the key stages of the project. This becomes clear from a letter of the RWE CEO, Juergen Grossman, to the head of the Bulgarian Energy Company NEK, which was supposed [...]
Bulgaria’s former Finance Minister, Plamen Oresharski, launched Friday a critical attack on the budget 2010 approved by the new cabinet this week. Oresharski, who spoke during the morning block of the TV channel PRO.BG, said the budget has no goals or policies. “It says inside they will slate more money for health care, ecology, infrastructure, [...]
Bulgaria’s Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, Traicho Traikov, said Friday the German company RWE was unwilling to commit firmly to the planned Bulgarian Belene Nuclear Power Plant. Speaking in Parliament, Traikov said the government was currently preparing to pick a consultant that was going to help it select private investors for a share of [...]
The Russian side has supplied Bulgaria with detailed information on its plans for the expansion of the South Stream gas transit pipeline project. This has been announced by the Russian Ministry of Energy after Thursday’s meeting in Moscow between Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy, Economy, and Tourism, Traicho Traikov, and the Russian Energy Minister, Sergei Shmatko. [...]
Bulgaria has lost the last 20 years of its history because of the descendants of the former Communist Party, i.e. the Bulgarian Socialist Party. This is the view of Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, who is the leader of the ruling center-right GERB party. “I can’t stop laughing at those who say that GERB is [...]
Bulgaria’s energy policy has so far followed the “anything Russia wants” principle, Finance Minister Simeon Djankov said. During a meeting with local businessmen in the southern city of Smolyan Thursday night, Djankov pointed out Bulgaria’s energy policy under the previous government had been guided by a small group of party functionaries connected with pro-Russian interests. [...]
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