Representatives of the Sofia District Court and the Bulgarian government met Tuesday in order to try to sort the debacle in which the country’s busiest court might be kicked out of its building. In May 2010, the Chair of Bulgaria’s largest and busiest court, the Sofia District Court, Judge Krasimir Vlahov, announced that the institution [...]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has reacted strongly to criticism by declaring his readiness to lead his party GERB to all-out elections. Borisov was angered by comments made by the country’s major trade unions and his allies from the Blue Coalition, as well as by a newly emerging conflict between the government and the Socialist [...]
Bulgaria should be the active partner when it comes to plans to deploy US air defense missiles on its soil, the country’s prime minister told journalists after his dinner with the American president. “The question about Bulgaria’s support for taking part in a new US missile defense system in Europe has not been officially posed, [...]
The European Commission intends to be flexible about the deadlines for the EU ISPA program, including those for the construction of Danube Bridge II. The information was reported by the EC spokesperson, cited Saturday by the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR. EC says they are willing to extend the deadline until 2012 for several ISPA projects [...]
A more detailed transcript of Thursday’s conversation between Erdogan and Borisov over the debate on the 10-minute Turkish-language news emissions on the Bulgarian national TV was reported Friday by CNN Turk. Turkey’s PM has called his Bulgarian counterpart a couple of days after Borisov declared himself in favor of the initiative of the nationalist party [...]
Ukraine has paid Russia for the October 2009 natural gas supplies, which has assuaged fears about the breakup of a new gas crisis between the two states not unlike the one in January. The news was announced Friday by Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, during her visit to the Eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. In [...]
It can be said Bulgaria’s state budget is already balanced as a surplus of BGN 52 M has been achieved for October 2009. This was announced Tuesday by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov during the Fourth Annual Meeting of Government and Business organized together with the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIBG). Borisov declared [...]
Bulgaria and another nine states from Central and Eastern Europe succeeded in agreeing on more beneficial terms with regards to climate change. That became confirmed by the close of the European Council in Brussels, announced the government press service. “It was a very difficult meeting. In the morning we had a working meeting with another [...]
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, said Thursday that the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, was making most EU leaders nervous. According to Borisov, Klaus is overdoing it with his unwillingness to sign into ratification the Lisbon Treaty. Borisov is in Brussels for the meeting of the EU Council. He vowed to defend Bulgaria’s [...]
Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister, MP Sergey Stanishev, is ready to ask Parliament to strip him off his immunity over the controversy with an allegedly missing top secret intelligence report. Prime Minister Borisov has accused Stanishev of concealing a report of the State National Security Agency DANS in October 2008, and warning the state officials that [...]
World Bank President Heaps High Praise on Bulgarian Govt
Bulgarian State Companies with New Orders for Bank Selection
World Bank President Robert Zoellick Heads for Bulgaria
Bulgaria Consolidates Control of Finance, Customs, Tax Authorities
Average Wage in Bulgaria Up 9% Q2 Y/Y
Bulgaria with Staggering Export Growth to Non-EU States in 2010 H1
Bulgarian State Railroads to Request Loan from World Bank
