The ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, still has not transferred the one million levs that it promised to donate to a flood-buried village, a check has shown. The funding was to be taken from the party’s state subsidy and was destined to help the victims of the tragedy in the flooded southeastern village of Biser. “This [...]
Renown Bulgarian volleyball player Matey Kaziyski has hinted he may boycott the upcoming Olympic Games in London due to the scandal that erupted between Bulgaria’s volleyball federation and the country’s national team coach. Coach Radostin Stoychev was dismissed by the federation on Sunday, a day after his team was defeated by Germany in the second semifinal of the 2012 Olympic Games-European Qualification Tournament in Sofia. The dismissal triggered an [...]
Bulgaria’s Economy and Energy Minister, Delyan Dobrev, is discussing Thursday with bank creditors the future of the Kardzhali Lead and Zinc Complex (LZC; OTZK). OTZK is the largest Bulgarian producer of non-ferrous metals in the southern city of Kardzhali, providing until recently livelihood of many in the city and the region. OTZK has been out of operation in the past [...]
The South Stream gas pipeline is project of high priority for Bulgaria, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has declared. Borisov has pointed out the financial benefits of projects like South Stream that make use of his country’s geostrategic location. He added that the money gathered by Bulgaria from this project will be used for “retirement pensions, salaries and asphalt,” the latter referring to [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Workers at Bulgaria’s largest non-ferrous metal producer, the Kardzhali Lead and Zinc Complex (OTzK), have sought assistance from Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan for an end to grievous mismanaged by the factory owner, according to a report in a Turkish news site. OTzK workers have complained that they have not received their salaries for months, and that factory owner Valentin Zahariev has been engaging in a chronic draining [...]
Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) and Novinite.bg are publishing an interview with Bozhidar Dimitrov, a prominent historian, Director of Bulgaria’s National History Museum in Sofia, and a former Minister of Bulgarians Abroad (Diaspora Minister) in the Borisov Cabinet in 2009-2011. Interview by Evelina Ivanova, a freelance journalist. Bozhidar Dimitrov has an impressive resume, a harsh language [...]
Bulgaria’s government is not responsible whatsoever for the two mobsters who vanished after receiving their sentences, the country’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisovhas stated. Angel Hristov and Plamen Galev aka the “Galevi brothers” disappeared after the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation finally confirmed their organized crimesentences last week, and the two were supposed to be sent to jail for 5 and 4 years [...]
The European Union‘s executive will suspend in the short term the excessivebudget deficit procedure against Bulgaria as the country has taken adequate steps to correct it, a deputy finance minister believes. Bulgaria‘s budget deficit dipped below the European Union limit of 3% of gross domestic product last year because of the government’s prudent fiscal management, Deputy Finance Minister Boryana Pencheva told MPs from the European affairs parliamentary committee. “Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, [...]
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