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Cabinet Ministers Donchev, Kuneva Meet with Guests from Serbian National Assembly
March 31 (BTA) - Deputy prime ministers Meglena Kuneva and Tomislav Donchev had a working meeting with representatives of the Serbian National Assembly's European Integration Committee on Tuesday, the Cabinet's press service said.
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President of Specialized Court Perceives Presence of Tendency Whereby Court's Decisions Are Unnecessarily Revoked by Hig...
arch 31 (BTA) - President of the Specialized Court Georgi Oushev said that a tendency exists whereby some judges of the Appellate Specialized Court revoke decisions of the lower instance court without errors made in them. Oushev spoke at a news conference Tuesday where a rep...
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Prosecution Adds Eight More Defendants in Case Against Anti-Democratic Ideology Group
March 31 (BTA) - The prosecution has added eight more defendants in a case against a group preaching anti-democratic ideology, the prosecuting magistracy said in a press release Tuesday.
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PM Borissov Confirms Meeting Corpbank Majority Shareholder Vassilev Last Year
March 31 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov confirmed Tuesday that he met with controversial banker Tsvetan Vassilev last June. The meeting was held at Borissov's home in Sofia's suburb Bankya, he told journalists after he emerged from the court where he gave evidence on t...
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PM Borissov, Other Politicians Questioned as Witnesses in Lawsuit against Former Head of National Intelligence Service
March 31 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov testified as a witness in the lawsuit against the former head of the National Intelligence Service, Kircho Kirov, who is tried for embezzling 5 million leva. Kirov claimed that the lawsuit against him is political in its core, ...
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Chinese Companies Interested in Winning Concession at Plovdiv Airport
March 31 (BTA) - Chinese companies are interested in winning a concession of the Plovdiv, Southern Bulgaria, Airport, and making it a logistical hub for Europe and Asia, the Economy Ministry said after a meeting of Economy Minister Bozhidar Loukarski and Tianting Jiang [name ...
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Price Cuts of Heating Energy Smaller than Preliminary Announced Reductions
March 31 (BTA) - The Electricity and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) has determined new, lower, prices of heating energy and hot water as of April 1, it emerges from a decision of EWRC uploaded on its website. The reductions are smaller than the preliminary announced price...
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Trade Unions Propose Gradual Increase of Retirement Age, Pensionable Service
March 30 (BTA) - Trade unions on Monday proposed that the retirement age and the required length of pensionable service should be increased gradually by one month a year for men and two months a year for women over a period of 20 to 25 years. Pensions should be increased to e...
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National Assembly Chair Tsacheva, Croatian Parliament Speaker Leko Discuss Cooperation in Various Spheres
March 30 (BTA) - A Croatian parliamentary delegation headed by Croatian Parliament Speaker Josip Leko is on a three-day official visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of National Assembly Chair Tsetska Tsacheva, Parliament's press service said Monday.
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Finance Minister Refers 26% Tax Introduced by Greece on Transactions from Bulgaria to EC
March 30 (BTA) - Minister of Finance Vladislav Goranov sent a letter to the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, Pierre Moscovici, Goranov's ministry said Monday in a press release.
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Corpbank Victims Association Calls for Proper Control over Trustees in Bankruptcy
March 30 (BTA) - The Corpbank Victims Association (CVA) on Monday called for proper control over the actions of the temporary trustees in bankruptcy working at the bank and said that its bankruptcy estate should be preserved. CVA representatives and lawyers gave a news confer...
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Energy Minister Discusses Progress in Greece-Bulgaria Interconnector Project with Partners from Greek-Italian Consortium
March 30 (BTA) - The Greece-Bulgaria gas interconnector is an exceptionally important project not only for the two countries, but also for the whole EU, Energy Ministry Temenouzhka Petkova said at a meeting with the Bulgarian Energy Holding's partners in the project, the Gree...
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Natural Gas Likely to Drop by Another 10 Per Cent in July
March 30 (BTA) - The price of natural gas may decrease anew in July, by about 10 per cent, after dropping by nearly 13 per cent in April, Bulgargas Executive Director Petyo Ivanov told the Bulgarian National Radio on Monday. Ivanov said that if oil prices and the dollar/leva ...
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Tourism Ministry: All Measures Have Been Taken to Compensate for Expected Drop in Russian, Ukrainian Tourists
March 29 (BTA) - All measures have been taken to overcome the expected drop in the number of Russian and Ukrainian tourists and to compensate for it with tourists from other markets, the Tourism Ministry said Sunday.
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Protestors Stage Car March in Bourgas Against "Chasing of Russian Tourists Away"
March 29 (BTA) - Protestors staged a car march with nearly 200 vehicles here on Sunday because of the "chasing of Russian tourists away". The protestors also demanded more large-scale advertising of Bulgaria in East European countries.
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Prime Minister Borissov: Judicial System, Grey Economy Are Main Problems for Bulgarian Business
March 29 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Sunday said that the main problems the Bulgarian business is facing are the judicial system - particularly the slow resolution of cases - and the grey economy. He was speaking at a meeting of his party's business formation, Ent...
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MRF Leader Mestan: Events from So-called Regeneration Process Must Find Their Proper Place in History Books
March 28 (BTA) - The events from the so-called Regeneration Process, a forcible assimilation campaign against ethnic Turks carried out by the communist regime before 1989, must find their proper place in history books, said leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MR...
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Bulgaria Switches to Daylight Saving Time at 3:00 a.m. on March 29
March 28 (BTA) - Clocks in Bulgaria will be advanced one hour to daylight saving time at 3:00 a.m. local time (1:00 a.m. UTC) on Sunday, March 29, the Bulgarian Institute of Metrology said. Daylight saving time was introduced in this country in 1979, and since 1997 has b...
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BSP Establishes Itself as Main Left Party and Only Alternative to Present Governance - Socialist Leader Mikov
March 28 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is establishing itself ever more successfully as the main Left party and the only alternative to the present governance, said here on Saturday socialist leader Mihail Mikov during a meeting of his party's National Council.
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Finance Minister Defends in Parliament Ratification of Non-reciprocal Agreement between Bulgaria, United States under FA...
March 27 (BTA) - Non-ratification of the Agreement between Bulgaria and the United State under FATCA will have a negative impact on Bulgarian financial institutions, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said at Parliament's Question Time on Friday.