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MRF Party Leader Meets Mayors of Two Towns Protesting Election of Controversial MP on His Party's Ticket
October 22 (BTA) - Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) leader Lyutvi Mestan Wednesday met with the mayors of the southwestern towns of Kyustendil and Doupnitsa which have been protesting for weeks against the election of a controversial MP of the MRF as a representative o...
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Reformist Bloc Deems Patriotic Front Acceptable Partner
October 22 (BTA) - After a meeting of the Reformist Bloc's parliamentary group on Wednesday, Nayden Zelenogorski said that the things in common between the Bloc and the Patriotic Front were many more than their differences. Zelenogorski, who is a member of the Bulgaria for th...
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Government Adopts Strategy for Development of Vocational Training, Education
October 22 (BTA) - The Council of Ministers Wednesday adopted a strategy for the development of vocational education and training in Bulgaria in 2015-2020, the Government's information service said.
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Tenth World Meeting of Bulgarian Media Continues in Tsaribrod
October 22 (BTA) - "Copy-paste" journalism is turning into a tumour and this theft of materials is flourishing with the development of technologies, said the participants in the Tenth World Meeting of Bulgarian Media on Wednesday. The third day of the forum, which is organize...
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Bulgaria, Romania to Cooperate in Construction of New Bridges over Danube
October 22 (BTA) - The Council of Ministers Wednesday approved a draft memorandum of understanding between the governments of Bulgaria and Romania on the conduct of research for the construction of new bridges over the Danube. The Transport, Information Technology and Communi...
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Sofia to Host 10th Albert Roussel International Piano Competition
October 22 (BTA) - An Albert Roussel International Piano Competition, tenth running, will take place in Sofia from October 27 to 30. Selected to participate are thirteen pianists, laureates in international competitions with a rich concert activity, from Italy, China, Romania...
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Former Deputy Prosecutor General Manchev Commits Suicide
October 21 (BTA) - Former deputy prosecutor general Hristo Manchev committed suicide at his home on Tuesday afternoon, a BTA reporter learned from police sources. The police received an alert about the incident around 5 pm.
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GERB, Reformist Bloc Hold Meeting
October 21 (BTA) - A meeting between GERB and the Reformist Bloc took place at GERB's headquarters on Tuesday evening. It was not announced officially and in advance.
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Bulgarian Community in Serbia Receives Scarce, Biased Information
October 21 (BTA) - The Bulgarian community in Serbia receives insufficient, one-sided and biased information, said Ivan Nikolov, chair of the Cultural Information Centre in Bosilegrad on Tuesday. He was speaking at a panel on communities, institutions and media at the Tenth W...
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Socialist Party to Participate in Second Round of Consultations with GERB if Invited
October 21 (BTA) - In case it receives an invitation from GERB for serious political talks the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will take part in a second round of consultations, BSP Chairman Mihail Mikov told a news conference Tuesday, emerging from a meeting of the party Exe...
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Bulgaria, Romania to Sign Memorandum on Designing Two Danube Bridges
October 21 (BTA) - Bulgaria and Romania are expected next week to sign a memorandum launching the preparation for construction of two new bridges over the Danube - between Nikopol and Turnu Magurele and between Silistra and Calarasi, said Transport, IT and Communications Mini...
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Think Tank Reports 9% More Preference Votes in Second Elections since Introduction
October 21 (BTA) - In the October 5 parliamentary elections, there were 9 per cent more preference votes compared with the European elections on May 24, Antoaneta Tsoneva of the Institute for Public Environment Development told a BTA-hosted news conference on Tuesday.
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Bulgarians Abroad Object to Appointment of Acting Bulgarians Abroad Agency Head
October 21 (BTA) - Bulgarians abroad have addressed caretaker Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki, Deputy Prime Minister Iliyana Tsanova and the Deputy Chair of the State Agency of Bulgarians Abroad, Iva Yordanova, who is now acting as chairperson, in connection with her appoin...
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Media Monitoring Report: Election Campaign Coverage Marred by Apathy
October 21 (BTA) - The coverage by Bulgarian media of the election campaign between June and September was unpolarized just as the election contest itself, said Orlin Spassov of the Media Democracy Foundation at a BTA-hosted news conference on Tuesday. In his words, an apa...
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Experts Suggest Equalizing Retirement Age for Men, Women in 2028 or 2036
October 21 (BTA) - As of 2015, the retirement age is to increase by four months until reaching 63 years for women in 2021 and 65 years for men in 2018. The requisite contributory length of service for retirement is to increase by four months as well, until reaching 40 years f...
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Regulator Proposes Fee on All Electricity Producers to Boost Energy Benefits
October 21 (BTA) - State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission chief Svetla Todorova on Tuesday suggested a fee for all energy producers to collect more revenues to pay energy benefits. Todorova was speaking to journalists after open meetings of the commission.
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Deficit in General Government Sector Decreases in Past Four Years, Debt Grows
October 21 (BTA) - The deficit in the General Government sector for 2013 was 1.2 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or 989 million leva, the National Statistical Institute said, releasing data about the General Government deficit and debt in 2010-2013.
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Four Test eCall-equipped Cars Hit Road in Bulgaria
October 21 (BTA) - Four test eCall-equipped cars are going to hit the road in Bulgaria. The launch is part of a pilot project for the implementation of the eCall system in this country, Director General of the National 112 Emergency Call System Stoyan Gramatikov said in an in...
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Three Bulgarian Nominations for European Citizen's Prize of European Parliament
October 21 (BTA) - Bulgarian MEPs have made three nominations for this year's edition of the European Citizen's Prize conferred by the European Parliament (EP), said sources from EP's Information Bureau in Sofia. The three nominations will be evaluated and ranked by a nationa...
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Audit Report on Quality of Assets of Corpbank Submitted to BNB
October 20 (BTA) - An audit report on the quality of the assets of Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) and Commercial Bank Victoria that have been placed under conservatorship was submitted to the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) on Monday, the central bank said. The report has...
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