Bulgaria’s export to non-EU countries grew by 44.1% in the first half of 2010 year-on-year, according to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute. Thus, in January-June 2010, Bulgaria exported outside the EU goods and services worth a total of BGN 5.4 B. Over 50% of the Bulgarian non-EU exports went to Turkey, Serbia, Russia, [...]
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, leaves Monday, April 26 on an official trip to Serbia, the cabinet’s press center informs. Borisov is scheduled to have meetings with his Serbian counterpart, Mirko Cvetkovi? and Serbia’s President, Boris Tadic. During the visit, Borisov is to sign a bi-lateral agreement for the establishment of a joint contact center [...]
Bulgaria’s President, Georgi Parvanov, has congratulated the Presidents of Serbia and Montenegro on the occasion of the abolition on Saturday of the EU visa regime for citizens of Serbia and Montenegro. The Bulgarian President sent telegrams to President Boris Tadic of Serbia and to Filip Vujanovic, Montenegro’s President, according to the Presidential press center. In [...]
A day after a Serbian daily slammed Bulgaria as “a backstabber”, another Belgrade-based newspaper carries on the same furious line, saying Bulgarians always hit Serbians when they are at a loss which side to take. “The Serbian legal team is deeply disappointed with Bulgaria’s energetic support for Kosovo independence at the International Court of Justice [...]
The European Commission has approved the requested financial aid for construction gas pipeline connections from Bulgaria to Greece and Romania. This has been announced Friday night by the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Transport. Thus, the Commission has approved the granting of EUR 45 M for the construction of a connection between the natural [...]
The hit 2008 Bulgarian movie “The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the corner” won Sunday the grand prix at the Listopad Festival in Belarusian capital Minsk. Thus, movie of director Stefan Komandarev, which is based on the novel of Bulgarian-German writer Iliya Troyanov (Ilija Trojanow), and is co-produced with Slovenia, Germany and Hungary, [...]
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution, which recommends the lifting of the visa regimes for citizens of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro on December 19 this year instead of January 1, 2010, as proposed by the European Commission. During the debates, which started late on Wednesday, the MEPs expressed their support for removing the visa [...]
Bulgaria Defense Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, has welcomed the adoption of Serbia and Montenegro as full members of the South-Eastern Europe Defense Ministerial (SEDM) process. The annual meeting of the Ministers of Defense of South-Eastern Europe took place in Sofia, on Wednesday. The event was attended by the defense ministers of the countries, which all had [...]
Russia and Serbia signed several cooperation agreements Tuesday including a deal on the South Stream gas transit pipeline. The documents were signed by the two Presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Boris Tadic, in Belgrade, ITAR-TASS reported. Russia’s energy giant Gazprom and Srbijagaz signed a protocol on the Serbian section of the South Stream pipeline. According to [...]
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