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Exacta Pollsters: GERB Supported by 25.1%, Socialists by 12.2%
April 21 (BTA) - If parliamentary elections were held now, the GERB party would garner 25.1 per cent of the vote and the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) 12.2 per cent, according to a nationally representative poll of Exacta Research Group between April 1 and 9.
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AES Maritsa East 1 Sure There Is No State Aid in Contract with American Power Plants
April 21 (BTA) - The European Commission has not contacted us to require information whether the contract with the National Electric Company (NEK) for long-term purchase of electricity constitutes state aid, but we are sure that the final decision of the EC will be that there...
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Prime Minister, European Commissioner Discuss Electronic Government
April 21 (BTA) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip on Tuesday that the accelerated development of an electronic government system is among the priorities of the Bulgarian government, the Cabinet's Press Service report...
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Deficit of BGN 2,337 Mln Reported in General Government Sector Statistics
April 21 (BTA) - Preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) show that the General Government sector posted a deficit of 2,337 million leva, or 2.8 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in 2014.
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Finance Ministry Successfully Places10-Year Leva-Denominated Securities
April 21 (BTA) - The Finance Ministry said on Tuesday it has launched a 10-year issue of leva-denominated government securities maturing on April 22, 2025. At an auction held on Monday, the Ministry placed 50 million leva worth of securities with an average weighted yield o...
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Georgi Purvanov:Two Ministers Are Pulling Cabinet Down
April 21 (BTA) - "The ABV party has criticism for some of the government ministers, particularly Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov and Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev, who are definitely pulling the cabinet down," ABV Chairman Georgi Purvanov told journalists in Plovdiv on April...
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Bulgarian Parliament Leader Calls for More EU Investment in High Technology
April 20 (BTA) - Addressing a Conference of Speakers of European Union Parliaments in Rome, Bulgarian Parliament Chairwoman Tsetska Tsacheva said that her country has a strong interest in increased EU investment in high technology, biofarming and territorial development, the ...
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Food Safety Agency Destroys Blocked Food Additive Containing Banned Substance
April 20 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency has started the destruction of blocked quantities of the food additive Tribest which were found to contain a banned substance, stanozolol, sources from the Agency said. The stanozolol in the additive was found in doping sample...
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Alpha Research Agency Finds Continuing Upward Trend in PM Rating, Limited Support for Key State Institutions
April 20 (BTA) - There is a continuing trend of rising personal rating of PM Boyko Borissov (33.4 per cent) and a limited support for basic state institutions, a regular survey of the Alpha Research polling agency showed. The survey was conducted between April 7 and 17 among ...
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ABV Wants Judicial Reform Council Established in Parliament
April 20 (BTA) - It would be best if a special council is established in Parliament, which can decide how the judicial reform will be conducted, said here on Monday ABV deputy leader Roumen Petkov. According to him, the Justice Minister has failed in changing the system.
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Traffic in Bulgaria's Airspace to Increase by Some 50% Next Two Years - Minister
April 20 (BTA) - After the opening of the new airport in Istanbul, the traffic in the airspace over Bulgaria's territory is expected to increase by over 50 per cent, Minister of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications Ivailo Moskovski said at the opening of the...
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Stones Hurled at Socialist Party HQs in Sofia
April 20 (BTA)- An unidentified man hurled stones at the windows of the headquarters of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) on Sunday afternoon, breaking glass windows, BSP Spokesman Atanas Merdjanov said. No one was hurt.
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Bulgarian-U.S. Military Exercise "Thracian Eagle" Starts at Graf Ignatievo Air Base
Graf Ignatievo, Southern Bulgaria, April 18 (BTA) - U.S. jet fighters F-15 C/D part of the Louisiana Air National Guard have arrived at the Graf Ignatievo air base to take part in the second edition of the Bulgarian-U.S. Exercise "Thracian Eagle", sources from the Graf Ignatievo ...
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Socialists to Seek Support from ABV to Petition Constitutional Court about New Debt
April 17 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) have prepared a petition to the Constitutional Court concerning the parliamentary sanction for a possible new debt of 16 billion leva for Bulgaria to take out in the next three years.
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Bulgaria's Population Totals 7,202,198 at End-2014, Down 0.6% on 2013
April 17 (BTA) - Bulgaria had a population of 7,202,198 at December 31, 2014, 1.4 per cent of the EU's population. It ranked 16th immediately below Austria (8,507,000 population) and above Denmark (5,627,000 population). Compared to the end of 2013, Bulgaria's population...
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Court Releases Judge Roumyana Chenalova on Lv 8,000 Bail
April 17 (BTA) - After a five-hour hearing, the Sofia City Court released Roumyana Chenalova from custody on 8,000 leva bail late Thursday evening.
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Pelican Death Toll in World-Heritage Lake Increases to 31
April 17 (BTA) - The pelican death toll in the Sreburna Nature Reserve increased to 31 after two more birds were found dead on Friday, Sebahtin Halid, Director of the Regional Food Safety Directorate in Silistra, told the media.
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Property Theft Was Commonest Criminal Offence Committed by Juveniles in 2014
April 17 (BTA) - A total of 10,705 juveniles had a police counselling centre record for anti-social behaviour and criminal offences in 2014, insignificantly more than the 10,536 in 2013, the National Statistical Institute reported on Friday. The rate of persons aged 8-17 wit...
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Prosecutor General Tsatsarov:"Constitution Must Be Amended Parallelto Revisions of Procedural Laws"
April 17 (BTA) - "The amendments to the Constitution must go hand in hand with revisions of the procedural laws," Bulgaria's Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov told journalists here on Friday. "The change cannot happen without changing the fundamental rules for the work of j...
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Supreme Court of Cassation to Rule on Case against Tsvetan Tsvetanov within a Month
April 17 (BTA) - Tsvetan Tsvetanov MP of GERB appeared at the hearing of his case by the Supreme Court of Cassation on Friday. Tsvetanov, who was interior minister of Boyko Borissov's first cabinet, was given four years in prison by the first- and second-instance courts for t...
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