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  • Bulgaria, Croatia Agree Joint Positions on Migrant Crisis, EU Enlargement, Schengen Membership

    May 3 (BTA) - Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov, who is on a two-day official visit to Croatia, talked with his Croatian counterpart Miro Kovac on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said. Mitov said the coordinated positions of Bulgaria and Croatia and of the countries of Central and E...

  • Bulgaria, Croatia Agree Joint Positions on Migrant Crisis, EU Enlargement, Schengen Membership

    May 3 (BTA) - Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov, who is on a two-day official visit to Croatia, talked with his Croatian counterpart Miro Kovac on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said. Mitov said the coordinated positions of Bulgaria and Croatia and of the countries of Central and E...

  • Finance Ministry Expects LV2.3 Bln Budget Surplus at End-April

    May 3 (BTA) - The Finance Ministry expects a budget surplus of 2,348 million leva as at the end of April, which amounts to 2.6 per cent of the projected GDP. The Ministry made public its estimates Tuesday, citing preliminary data. By comparison, the January-April period of 201...

  • European Commission Projects Moderate Economic Growth for Bulgaria in Spring Forecast

    May 3 (BTA) - The European Commission projected moderate economic growth for Bulgaria in its spring forecast. The GDP is expected to drop to 2 per cent in 2016, as some boost factors, such as the absorption of EU funds weaken. GDP growth is set to recover to 2.4 per cent in 2017 ...

  • Public Board in Reformist Bloc Urges Postponement of Pension Insurance System for Half-Year

    May 3 (BTA) - The Public Board of the Right-wing Reformist Bloc urged Tuesday the Finance Minister to withdraw changes he has proposed in the legislation concerning the handling of personal pension accounts. The Reformist Bloc's Public Board argues that the proposals should be...

  • Interior Minister Buchvarova Leaves on Working Visit to Turkey

    May 3 (BTA) - A Bulgarian delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova leaves on a two-day working visit to Turkey, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday. Within the high-level visit, on Thursday Buchvarova and her Turkish counterpart Efkan Al...

  • President Plevneliev to Decide About Veto on Election Code Amendments Within Days

    May 2 (BTA) - President Rosen Plevneliev will announce within days whether he will veto recent amendments to the Election Code. The head of state spoke to journalists in Koprivshtitsa, whether he attended observances of the 140th anniversary of the April Uprising.

  • Socialist Party Celebrates Labour Day

    May 1 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) held a rally in central Sofia Sunday to celebrate Labour Day. In a speech delivered at the rally, leader Mihail Mikov called for a fight for more rights and fairer pay for Bulgarian, European and world workers.

  • Consolidated Fiscal Programme for March 2016 Shows Surplus

    April 30 (BTA) - The consolidated fiscal programme (CFP) balance for March 2016 shows surplus to the amount of BGN 1,863.6 million (2.1 per cent of forecast GDP), the Finance Ministry said. It is formed by a surplus under the national budget of BGN 819.7 million and a surplus und...

  • Temporary Ban Introduced on Fishing in High-Altitude Water Basins

    April 30 (BTA) - A ban on fishing during the reproduction period becomes effective as of May 1 due to the beginning of the spring-summer reproductive cycle.

  • Vidin School to Teach Children to Make Bread

    April 28 (BTA) - The students at the Tsar Simeon the Great school in Vidin will have access to optional classes on making bread and baking it in a real oven. As of Thursday, the school basement will house a bakery. The idea belongs to its principal, Ventsislav Stanev, he told BTA...

  • 23rd Edition of Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2016 Begins in Plovdiv

    April 29 (BTA) - Plovdiv is hosting the most prestigious independent wine competition in the world, Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. The event started Friday with the participation of a record-high number of Bulgarian wines, around 260 samples.

  • BNB Launches Stress Test of Banks

    April 29 (BTA) - The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) begins implementing the stress test of the banks in the country, the BNB press centre said on Friday. The purpose is to establish their capability of withstanding unexpected losses of capital resulting from continuous negative...

  • Parliament Concludes Passage of Election Code Amendments, Takes Recess

    Bulgaria's Parliament Thursday passed conclusively the last batch of amendments to the Election Code and took an Easter recess. Reversing an earlier resolution, the legislature voted, 105-29 with one abstention, to modify the ban on overseas voting outside the Bulgarian embassies...

  • Payment of NEK Arrears Allows Settlement of Debts Down the Energy Chain

    April 28 (BTA) - The settlement of NEK's arrears of over 1 billion leva to two US-owned thermo-electroc power plants in Bulgaria, AES Maritza East 1 and ContourGlobal Maritsa East 3, has allowed the settlement of all debts down the chain in the energy sector. This transpires from...

  • Joint Bulgarian-US Exercise Thracian Eagle 2016 Begins

    April 28 (BTA) - Eight F-15 C/D fighters of the 104th Fighter Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard are being relocated on Thursday to the Graf Ignatievo Air Base (near Plovdiv, South Central Bulgaria) for a joint Bulgarian-US exercise codenamed Thracian Eagle 2016, the Bu...

  • Parliament Repeals Ban on Camping, Parking in 100 m Coastal Strip

    April 28 (BTA) - Bulgaria's Parliament Thursday passed conclusively amendments to the Black Sea Coast Development Act, repealing a ban on camping and car parking in the 100 m wide coastal strip outside the territories of nucleated settlements.

  • President Plevneliev Unveils Bulgarian Christian Art Exhibition in Austrian Monastery

    April 28 (BTA exclusive by Tsvetana Delibaltova) - Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev attended the opening of a large exhibition of Bulgarian Christian art, titled "The Glory of the East," in the Klosterneuburg Monastery in the Austrian state of Lower Austria on April 27.

  • E-Voting to be Experimented after January 2018

    April 28 (BTA) - Electronic voting will be experimented after January 1, 2018 in three successive elections, including by-elections, in one Bulgarian region, according to Election Code amendments adopted on second reading late on Wednesday.

  • President Plevneliev Confers with Lower Austria Governor Proll

    April 27 (BTA) - On the second day of his visit to Austria, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev conferred with Lower Austria's Governor Erwin Proll. Bulgaria and Lower Austria share a common vision for the European and regional development and have actively developing trade and ...