They insisted on a meeting with Borisov and his Deputy, Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, but did not get a positive response. Meanwhile, the demonstrators, represented by the National Grain Producers Association, were invited to meet with Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, but declined the invitation on the grounds he is not authorized to sign any decisions. [...]
The name of the actual buyer of the State-owned cigarette-maker monopoly Bulgartabac is going to be revealed very soon, Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, promised. Speaking Saturday from the Black Sea city of Varna, Traikov, however, stressed that the most important issue was who the investor is, not the buyer. He added that there [...]
The first Bulgarian store of the Swedish furniture giant IKEA aims at attracting over 1.5 million visitors during the first year after its opening. The information was announced by the Greek Fourlis company, which has the IKEA franchise rights for Bulgaria. The first IKEA store is located on the capital Sofia‘s beltway and is scheduled [...]
Bulgaria has demanded that Belene nuclear project is frozen for another three months as of July, the energy and economy minister announced on Friday. “We have proposed a three-month delay so that we have time to catch up with the so-called back office work,” Minister Traicho Traikov said at a conference about the energy infrastructure, [...]
Sting, the world renowned pop star, delighted nearly 15 000 spectators with a two hour concert at the Georgi Asparuhov stadium in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. He performed together with Sofia‘s philharmonic orchestra, one of the most illustrious symphonic orchestras in Europe, presenting symphonically re-orchestrated versions of 23 of his best known songs, covering all periods [...]
Philip Morris and British American Tobacco, the two biggest companies, which purchased public procurement documents for acquiring a majority stake in Bulgaria‘s cigarette maker Bulgartabac, have no intentions to bid, reports say. The two companies have bought documents just with the aim of collecting information, they have no plans to bid in the tender, Dnevnik [...]
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 [...]
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