Retirement age in Bulgaria for males and females will be the same after 2020, according to the Minister of Social Policy and Labor, Totyu Mladenov. Mladenov explained Monday that in 2017 retirement age for men would reach 65 while by 2020 the one for females will be 63, and it will increase, along with the required years of service, by 4 months [...]
Bulgaria’s ex Tsar and ex Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg has published an article claiming that his primary motivation for “accepting” to head the Bulgarian government in 2001 was to make the country an EU member. The article in question appeared on Saxe-Coburg’s website on Tuesday, April 24, apparently intended to note the anniversary since the signing of Bulgaria’s EUaccession treaty seven years ago, on [...]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has stated he is “amused” by the battle between Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Sergey Stanishev and his opponent, Georgi Parvanov. Stanishev has a certain advantage in the media, Borisov reckons. “I see that almost everyone is now referring to the former President as “Gotse,”” the Prime Minister observed, referring to Parvanov’s alias from the time he [...]
China views Bulgaria as a reliable partner in Europe and within the EU, Gen. Xu Caihou, member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, told Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov in Sofia. Xu, who is on a three-day visit in Sofia as part of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has also thanked Bulgaria for [...]
Some 63% of Bulgarians are pessimists about their country’s future, according to a poll conducted by Gallup International in April 2011. After March became the first month in which over 60% of the surveyed by Gallup were pessimistic about their country’s development since the current ruling centrist-right GERB party took over in 2009, April’s poll [...]
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