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Police Get Extra Lv 100 Mln for Pay Rise, Protests Suspended
January 11 (BTA) - An extra 100 million leva was allocated for a pay rise to the Bulgarian police after a meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov on Thursday. The largest police trade union will suggest Friday that uniformed police suspend or end their protests.
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Traffic along Danube Bridge 2 Increases 18 Per Cent in 2017 from Preceding Year
January 11 (BTA) - Road traffic along the second bridge over the Danube connecting Bulgaria and Romania at Vidin and Calafat increased 18 per cent in 2017 compared to the preceding year, Lyubomir Nizamov, head of the joint Bulgarian-Romanian company managing the bridge, said. In ...
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Parliamentary Committee Rejects Presidential Veto, Radev Says This Shows Reluctance to Fight Corruption
January 10 (BTA) - The Legal Affairs Committee in the National Assembly on Wednesday overturned a presidential veto of provisions in the new Counter-Corruption and Unlawfully Acquired Asset Forfeiture Act. Ten committee members voted against the veto and seven others supported it...
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President Radev, Chinese Scholar Concur Bulgaria, China Should Develop Excellent Relations in All Areas
January 10 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev Wednesday received the Chinese scholar and author Gordon Wang, Vice President of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, and stated that "Bulgaria and China have excellent relations and we would like them to develop comprehensively". The meeting...
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Socialists Want Hearing of Prime Minister in Wake of Recent Murders
January 10 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) wants a parliamentary hearing of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov about the situation in the country after the recent murders, BSP Deputy Chairman Kiril Dobrev said here Wednesday. He was speaking at a news conference after emer...
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Bulgarian EU Presidency is Faced with Responsibility of Drawing Internal Rules of European Public Prosecutor's Office
January 10 (BTA) - The Bulgarian EU Presidency is faced with the huge responsibility of drawing up the internal rules, statutes and composition of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) and of providing it with sufficient financing so that EPPO commence work in 2020, Bulg...
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Borissov: "No Need to Tout Bulgaria, We'll Show What We Are"
January 10 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Wednesday criticized the removal Tuesday night of a billboard poster of the police who have scheduled protests for Thursday when EU leaders will be in the capital for the opening of Bulgaria's EU Presidency. Speaking at the Council...
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Foreign Minister Zaharieva:Bulgarian EU Presidency Should Rebuild Trust in European Idea
January 10 (BTA) - Against the backdrop of Brexit and Euroscepticism, the future EU presidencies, including that of Bulgaria, should rebuild trust in the European idea, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva says in a BTA interview. This can be a...
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President Radev: EU Council Presidency in Context of CSDP Is Great Responsibility
January 9 (BTA) - The participants in Tuesday's meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security (CCNS) with the head of State agreed that the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council in the context of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) is a great responsibi...
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Municipal Hospital Workers to Stage Protest Next Week
January 9 (BTA) - Staff at municipal hospitals will stage a symbolic protest on January 15, said Tuesday Nedelcho Totev, chair of the National Association of Municipal Hospitals. Totev said that the main demands are not political and that "this was the last plea for help to th...
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Police Protests Planned on Opening Day of Bulgarian EU Presidency
January 9 (BTA) - Police protests will be held on the day when the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council will open officially. Trade unions said that between 4:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on January 11 demonstrators will "welcome" arriving delegations with posters at the intersection of ...
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Q3 GDP Up 3.8% on Year
January 9 (BTA) - In its regular monthly economic review, Raiffeisenbank Bulgaria EAD reported a 3.8 per cent increase in GDP year on year in the third quarter of 2017. Domestic demand was the key driver of GDP growth, unlike in the third quarter of 2016 when external demand w...
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Transport Minister Moskovsky Gives: End of June as Deadline for Submittal of Proposals for Sofia Airport Concession Awar...
January 9 (BTA) - The preliminary studies for the award of a concession on the Sofia Airport performed by international institutions are expected to be ready within a month, Transport, IT and Communications Minister Ivailo Moskovski told reporters on Tuesday. The studies will the...
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Presidents Radev and Aliyev Discuss Air Service between Bulgaria and Azerbaijan
January 9 (BTA) - Presidents Rumen Radev of Bulgaria and Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan have talked by telephone about the forthcoming establishment of a direct air service between Sofia and Baku, Radev's press secretariat said on Tuesday. The air service was agreed during President ...
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Ivan Hadjiiski Institute Identifies "Structural Insecurity" in the World
January 8 (BTA) - In its analysis of 2017, the Ivan Hadjiiski Institute highlights 18 important things one ought to know about the world and Bulgaria at the start of 2018.
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Businessman Shot Dead in Sofia in Broad Daylight
January 8 (BTA) - A businessman was killed in a shooting in Sofia on Monday morning, police sources told BTA. Peter Hritsov was assaulted in his car in the Manastirski Livadi residential district shortly after 10:00 a.m. According to eyewitnesses, Hristov was fired at from a car...
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EC Welcomes Sofia Summit Meeting on Western Balkans
January 8 (BTA correspondent Nickolay Jeliazkov) - The European Commission welcomes the fact that the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council has set a date in May for a European leaders' summit meeting with the countries of the Western Balkans, European Commission spokesman Marga...
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Miners of Closed Mines Become Eligible for Early Retirement
January 8 (BTA) - Miners who have worked in mines closed down in 2017, will be eligible to early retirement. This was announced at a news briefing by National Ombudsman Maya Manolova here Monday after a meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and FInance Minister Vladoslav Gor...
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Bulgarian PM Borissov Meets with Turkish President Erdogan and PM Yildirim
January 7 (BTA) - "There will be a serious debate on the future of the European Union in light of Brexit, but Bulgaria will make efforts to restore the good tone and the partnership between Turkey and the EU countries," said Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov at a meeting on...
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Iconic Bulgarian Church in Istanbul Reopens, Bulgarian PM Borissov Meets with Turkish President Erdogan and PM Yildirim
January 7 (BTA) - "There will be a serious debate on the future of the European Union in light of Brexit, but Bulgaria will make efforts to restore the good tone and the partnership between Turkey and the EU countries," said Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov at a meeting on...
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