
Bulgaria still wants to join the euro zone despite recent predictions that the single currency will collapse, Traicho Traikov, Bulgaria’s Economy Minister, told CNBC on Thursday. “I know now it’s fashionable to predict the end of the monetary union, but I think common sense will still dominate and it is going to survive. Of course, [...]
December 6, 2011 | Posted in
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A newly-discovered natural gas deposit near Lovech in Northern Bulgaria contains 10 billion cubic meters of gas, Bulgaria’s Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism announced. Traikov said that Bulgaria will soon be able to extract about 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, or about one-third of its annual consumption. He spoke Tuesday [...]
July 7, 2011 | Posted in
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The Bulgarian government has signed a consulting contract with UK-based company HSBC for the financial analysis for the project for the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant. Bulgaria‘s Cabinet and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in particular have made it clear that the results from HSBC’s financial appraisal of the Belene project, i.e. whether it [...]
April 15, 2011 | Posted in
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