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2013 Revenue from Drug Production, Cigarette and Alcohol Contraband and Prostitution Stands At Lv 225 Mln - Statistics
June 22 (BTA) - Preliminary, but largely close to final data of the National Statistical Institute for 2013, show that the revenue from the production and sale of drugs, cigarette and alcohol contraband and prostitution amount to 225 million leva. As a whole, the inclusion ...
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Botevgrad Mayor Taken Forcibly to Prosecution Service
June 22 (BTA) - Botevgrad Mayor Georgi Georgiev was taken forcibly to the prosecutor's office on Monday morning, the Interior Ministry said. Georgiev is being investigated on a tip about irregularities with public procurement deals and the lease of municipal properties.
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Deputy PM Donchev: Government Is Against Increase of Electricity Prices
June 21 (BTA) - For two hours and a half on Sunday, ministers and experts discussed at an extraordinary meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov the options for limiting the increase of electricity prices, which was proposed by the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (...
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Deputy PM Donchev: Government Is Against Increase of Electricity Prices
June 21 (BTA) - For two hours and a half on Sunday, ministers and experts discussed at an extraordinary meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov the options for limiting the increase of electricity prices, which was proposed by the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (...
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Bulgarian Regional Development Minister Confers with Russian Deputy PM Dvorkovich, Construction Minister Men
June 21 (BTA) - Within the 19th Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, Bulgarian Regional Development and Public Works Minister Liliyana Pavlova conferred with Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Minister of Construction, Housing and Public Utilities...
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Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov Places First after Round 4 at Stavanger Chess Supertournament
June 20 (BTA) - Playing white, Bulgarian chess grandmaster Veselin Topalov defeated Armenia's Levon Aronian at move 58 in a game in a third-round game at the Supertournament 2015 in Stavanger. The Bulgarian thus took the lead in the points standings after Round 4, with a s...
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Fitch Affirms Bulgaria's Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating at 'BBB-; Outlook Stable
June 20 (BTA) - Fitch Ratings announced on Friday that it had affirmed Bulgaria's Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'BBB-' and 'BBB', respectively. The Outlooks are Stable. The issue ratings on Bulgaria's senior unsecured foreign and loca...
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Kristalina Georgieva: "If we Want to Succeed, Carping Is Not the Best Policy"
June 20 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - "Carping is not the best policy if we want to succeed. We should better look around, see the people who work well for themselves and for their families, for their countries, so as to give them more credit," European Commissio...
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Demonstration Centre for Milk Processing Opens with Financial Support from Switzerland
June 20 (BTA) - A demonstration centre for processing milk from rare local buffalo and sheep breeds and direct sale of dairy products was opened in the Village of Vassil Levski near Karlovo on Friday. The centre has been built and furnished with financial support from the B...
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Energy Ministers Petkova, Novak Discuss Bulgarian-Russian Joint Projects, Russia Will Consider Bulgaria's Gas Hub Propos...
June 20 (BTA) - Conferring within the framework of the St Petersburg 19th International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Energy Ministers Temenouzhka Petkova of Bulgaria and Aleksandr Novak of Russia stressed that the Bulgarian-Russian Joint Economic Commission is an appropriate forma...
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Vice President Calls for Action Plan for Refugee Integration
June 19 (BTA) - Vice President Margarita Popova told a conference on Friday that Bulgaria needs an action plan for the implementation of the National Strategy for Migration, Asylum and Integration 2015-2020, the President's Press Secretariat reported. Popova said that the peo...
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Institute Warns of Massive "Election Tourism"
June 19 (BTA) - A total of 80,200 people obtained current-residence registration between February and April 2015, almost double the number in February-April 2014, Antoaneta Tsoneva of the Institute for Public Environment Development (IPED) told a BTA-hosted news conference on...
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Energy Minister Petkova: Security of Supplies, Energy Network Are Government's Priority
June 19 (BTA) - Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova Friday said that guaranteeing the security of energy resources' supply, as well as the functioning of the Bulgarian energy network are a key priority in the Government's work. Petkova was speaking at the 19th Saint Petersbur...
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Sofia Appellate Court to Decide on Corpbank Insolvency Case within Weeks
June 19 (BTA) - Within several weeks the Sofia Appellate Court will come out with a decision about the date on which the insolvency of Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) will be declared.
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MRF Starts Consultations with Other Parliamentary Parties on Election Rules Referendum
June 19 (BTA) - The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) on Friday started consultations with the other parliamentary parties on a planned referendum on election rules. Emerging from the first round of talks, MRF Chairman Lyutvi Mestan said the idea is to achieve broad pol...
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European Commission Tests Commitments by Bulgarian Energy Holding concerning Domestic Electricity Market
June 19 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The European Commission said on Friday it is inviting comments from interested parties on commitments offered by the state-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) to address competition concerns about BEH's behaviour on the non-reg...
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Q1 2015 Hourly Labour Cost up 6.9% Y/Y - Statistics
June 19 (BTA) - The total hourly labour cost has risen by 6.9 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2014, according to preliminary data released by the National Statistical Institute on Friday. The total hourly labour cost grew by 5.6 per cent in industry, by 8.6 per cent...
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Enterprises to Suspend Work for One Hour on June 26 in Protest against Electricity Price Hike
June 19 (BTA) - Employers begin protests against the pending increase of the price of electricity, reads a statement of five business organizations received Friday by BTA. The statement says that all employers organizations in Bulgaria unanimously and categorically state that...
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Bulgaria's Deputy PM Kalfin Confers with EIB President Hoyer
June 19 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Labour and Social Policy Minister Ivailo Kalfin discussed the activity of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Bulgaria with EIB President Werner Hoyer at a meeting held at the Bank's Luxemb...
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Socialist Leader Pays Working Visit to Germany
June 19 (BTA) - The development of the processes in Europe and the relations between Bulgaria and Germany topped the agenda of a meeting in Berlin of Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Mihail Mikov and German MP from the Social Democratic Party Gernot Erler, who is also c...
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