Bulgarian prosecutor to charge two former defense ministers in airport deal...
Former ministers of defense Nikolai Svinarov and Veselin Bliznakov will be charged of causing a leva (BGN) 37 million loss to the budget by swapping a former military airbase near Sofia for appartments...
View ArticleBomb blast kills woman, 5 year-old boy
A bomb blast killed a 29 year old woman and her 5 year-old son in the southwestern Bulgarian town of Razlog on Tuesday, state TV reported. Medics are struggling to save the life of the woman's other...
View ArticleBulgaria's govt to close state agencies in step to cut spending
Struggling to bridge a looming EUR 1 billion budget gap, Bulgaria's Cabinet announced Tuesday it was planning to close eight government agencies and transform them into directorates within the...
View ArticleEthnic Turkish leader to be fined EUR 22,000 for dodging parliamentary sessions
Bulgaria will fine the leader of its ethnic Turkish party Ahmed Dogan with the equivalent of EUR 22,000 because of excessive absence from his workplace for the past four years - of a lawmaker in the...
View ArticleBulgaria expects to restore economic growth in 2011
Bulgaria expects to reverse current recession and be back to economic growth in 2011, a finance ministry forecast said Wednesday.
View ArticleBulgaria to emerge from crisis in April 2010, to cut VAT as from 2011: Fin Min
Bulgaria's minister of finance Simeon Djankov expects the country to emerge from the economic crisis next April and is planning to cut its 20% flat-rate value added tax (VAT) to 16% between 2011 and 2013.
View ArticleBulgaria to charge three former ministers: Official
Bulgaria will charge three former ministers with mismanagement and mishandling public procurement, interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said Thursday.
View ArticleBulgaria's president blasts PM on Russian energy projects
President Georgi Parvanov on Tuesday sharply criticised plans by new Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to revise three multi-billion euro projects that Russia wants to build in Bulgaria.
View ArticleBulgaria's former agriculture minister charged because of land swaps
Former agriculture minister Valeri Tsvetanov was handed Tuesday charges of abuse of office because of signing 15 swaps of state-owned forests for private land, which allegedly inflicted losses to the...
View ArticleBulgaria sharply cuts budget deficit
Bulgaria's budget deficit contracted to leva (BGN) 105 million in August from BGN 565 million in July due to belt-tightening measures enforced by the new government, finance minister Simeon Djankov...
View ArticleSupport for Bulgaria's new government rises - pollster
Support for Bulgaria's new centre-right prime minister Boiko Borisov has risen by 3.7% on the month to 50% September, Gallup reported Monday.
View ArticleBulgaria's economy to contract by 2% in 2010 - Fin Min
Bulgaria's economy will contract by 2% next year compared to a 6.3% contraction this year, finance minister Simeon Djankov said as quoted by the media on Monday.
View ArticleJudges urge magistrate council to sack members suspected of corruption
The Union of Judges in Bulgaria on Tuesday issued a statement demanding the Supreme Judicial Council to expell three of its members, which have been implicated in corruption.
View ArticleThe International epizootic bureau worries about situation in Georgia
It has become known that the French journalists from the international epizootic information bureau have information that Georgia is carrying out research on invention of different new viruses on its...
View ArticleIMF chief Strauss-Kahn undergoing tests over sex charge
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has consented to a medical examination over allegations of serious sexual assault. Mr Strauss-Kahn, who was arrested in New York, denies charges of attacking and...
View ArticleThe International epizootic bureau worries about situation in Georgia (full...
The studies of the Georgian-American team of scientists permitted to develop a detailed and accurate outline of cholera spread across the territory of Georgia. Specifically, water samples, used to...
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