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Bulgaria's Largest Winter Resorts Open Ski Season
December 13 (BTA) - Bulgaria's largest winter resorts: Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo, opened the ski season on Saturday. A 4-5 per cent increase of tourists is expected this winter in Bulgaria, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova told journalists in Pamporovo, where she atte...
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November Unemployment at 10.8%
December 13 (BTA) - In November, the unemployment rate was 10.8 per cent, up 0.1 percentage points from October, the Employment Agency reported on Saturday. Year-on-year, there was a drop of 0.7 percentage points. There were 47,600 fewer jobless from the beginning of 2014. The...
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National Book Centre Unveiled in Sofia
December 12 (BTA) - A national centre with Sofia's National Palace of Culture (NDK) will support Bulgarian literature, its translation and promotion abroad. The news was announced by NDK's leadership at a news conference on Friday. The centre will promote Bulgarian writers, th...
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Standard&Poor's Lower Bulgaria's Credit Rating to "BB+/B"
December 12 (BTA) - The Standard&Poor's rating agency Friday lowered their long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Bulgaria to "BB+/B" from "BBB-/A-3" with a stable outlook, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
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Tourism Ministry Targets Positioning Bulgaria among Top 5 European Tourist Destinations
December 12 (BTA) - Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova told a news conference here on Friday that her Ministry will target positioning Bulgaria among the top 5 identifiable round-the-year tourist destinations on the European market. Angelkova presented the prior...
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BTA Will Host the Alliance of European News Agencies' Spring Conference in April
December 12 (Metodi Yordanov of BTA) - BTA will host the Alliance of European News Agencies' (EANA) spring conference next April. Among the participants will be representatives from the largest to the smallest news agencies across Europe, including chief executives, editors-i...
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PES President Stanishev Does Not Expect Approval of Most Operational Programmes before End of Spring
December 12 (BTA) - "In all likelihood, most operational programmes will not be approved before the end of next spring," Party of European Socialists (PES) President and Bulgarian Member of the European Parliament Sergei Stanishev said here on Friday. In his words, the careta...
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Bulgaria Sends Commissioner Sevcovic Proposal to Develop Gas Hub
December 12 (BTA) - Bulgaria has sent European Commissioner for Energy Union Maros Sevcovic a letter proposing the development of a gas hub, Deputy Prime Minister for European Funds and Economic Policy Tomislav Donchev said Friday. The letter features the idea of a gas hub co...
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Growers Protest Delayed and Cheap Purchase of Tobacco
December 12 (BTA) - Tobacco growers from the southern region of Gotse Delchev are protesting Friday and Saturday against the delayed and slow purchase of their produce, and the low purchase prices this year.
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Polina Karastoyanova Heads Parliamentary Culture and Media Committee
December 12 (BTA) - Polina Karastoyanova, nominated by the Patriotic Front, was elected Chairperson of the Culture and Media Committee by a vote of 91-19, with 12 abstentions. She is replacing Slavi Binev.
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Bulgarian Parliament Ratifies New EUR 1,500 Mln Foreign Debt
December 12 (BTA) - The National Assembly Budget and Finance Committee Friday ratified a Loan Agreement between the Republic of Bulgaria and HSBC Bank, Societe Generale, CitiBank, N.A. (London Branch) and UniCredit Bulbank AD, in their capacity as underwriters and authorized...
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Judges Association Wants Case Allocation Software Replaced Immediately
December 12 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Judges Association (BJA) wants the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) to immediately replace the Law Choice random case allocation software and to find the optimum temporary solution until a new software is designed transparently by competent ind...
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Deputy PM Kuneva Wants to See Judiciary Showing More Responsibility
December 12 (BTA) - Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva wants to see the judiciary showing more responsibility. "What I want to see is more responsibility on the part of the judicial system. I want them to acknowledge their responsibility and show leadership," Kuneva told BT...
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BEH Chief: Bulgaria Did Not Bring South Stream Documents in Conformity with EU Legislation
Sofia, December 11 (BTA) - Despite all public announcements that the South Stream project has been cancelled, the Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) in its capacity as shareholder has not received a formal notification, BEH CEO Jacklen Cohen told a hearing by Parliament's energyco...
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Labour Minister Kalfin Sets Youth Employment as Priority During His Term in Office
December 11 (BTA) - Labour and Social Policy Minister Ivailo Kalfin took part in the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on Thursday, his ministry said in a press release.
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CEO: NEK Should Sell Electricity at 200 lv/MWh to Avoid Losses
December 11 (BTA) - Speaking to journalists on Thursday, National Electric Company (NEK) CEO Peter Iliev said that between January and October NEK generated over 850 million leva in losses on the regulated market. Also, it owes 1.2 billion leva to energy producers and 2.3 bil...
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No Losses of Funds under OP Transport in 2014 - Report
December 11 (BTA) - There have been no losses of funds under Operational Programme (OP) Transport in 2014, said Galina Vassileva, Director of Programme and Project Coordination Directorate at the Ministry of Transport, as quoted by her ministry. She was speaking at a meeting ...
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Kuneva, Ivanov, Vouchkov Present Bulgaria's Progress in Justice and Home Affairs to EC Mission
December 11 (BTA) - Addressing representatives of the European Commission (EC), Deputy Prime Minister for European Policy and Institutional Affairs Meglena Kuneva said: "We have a strong political commitment to carry out judicial reform, and we shall seek the broadest possib...
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Tourism Minister Angelkova Discusses in Madrid Options for Cooperation in Her Sector
December 11 (BTA) - Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova Wednesday discussed at working meetings with Spanish Secretary of State for Tourism Isabel Borrego Cortes and Spanish Development Minister Ana Pastor Julian the opportunities for strengthening the bilateral cooperation ...
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Report: Corruption Deals Reach 15-Year High
December 11 (BTA) - A corruption evaluation report by the Centre for the Study of Democracy suggests that in 2014 corruption deals in Bulgaria reached a 15-year high. The report was made public on Thursday.
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