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Prime Minister Sets Out National Education Priorities
September 26 (BTA) - Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki on Friday opened a public discussion on the national priorities in the field of education, hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Government Information Service reported.
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Bulgaria Has Enough Time to Align Laws to EU Deposits Guarantee Directive - Experts
September 26 (BTA) - Experts believe that the country has enough time to adopt amendments to the national legislation, so as to avoid an infringement procedure over the case with the troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank).
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Bulgaria Participates in Debate on Opportunities to Limit Veto Use in UN Security Council
September 26 (BTA) - Bulgaria believes there are grounds to consider the issue of the expediency of imposing a veto at the UN Security Council in the case of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov said, addressing a M...
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Laying of Subsea Pipes for South Stream Gas Project to Begin in November
September 26 (BTA special correspondent Boris Hamalski) - The laying of pipes on the bottom of the Black Sea for the South Stream gas pipeline project will begin in November, Jasper Jansen, Spokesman for the Netherlands-based South Stream Transport company, told journalists o...
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PM Bliznashki: "We Are Trying to Keep Budget Deficit at Under 3 Per Cent"
September 26 (BTA) - "We are trying to keep the budget deficit within the 3 per cent limit, but if we exceed it slightly, it will be on account of this extreme necessity facing the country in order to keep performing its vital functions," Bulgarian Prime Minister Georgi Blizn...
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Bulgarian Legislation, Practices for Sustainable Construction Lagging Behind and Outdated - Deputy PM Zaharieva
October 26 (BTA) - Bulgarian legislation and practices related to sustainable construction are lagging behind and outdated, said Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva here on Friday during a conference on sustainable development. There is...
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Electricity Price Rise Does not Include Old Costs for Belene, Tsankov Kamak Projects
September 26 (BTA) -The upcoming increase of the price of electricity for end users by close to 10 per cent as of October 1 does not cover old costs such as those for the abandoned Belene N-plant construction project and the Tsankov Kamak hydropower project, Deputy Prime Mini...
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Brussels May Split up Bulgaria and Romania in Justice, Home Affairs Monitoring - Minister
September 26 (BTA) - Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov warned Friday that Bulgaria may be separated from Romania in the European Commission monitoring of reforms in justice and the fiht against organized crime and corruption. The Minister was speaking on Nova TV - with the full ...
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Supreme Judicial Council Fails to Elect President of Supreme Court of Cassation
September 25 (BTA) - The Supreme Judicial Council Thursday failed to elect a President of the Supreme Court of Cassation. None of the two applicants for the post, the court's deputy presidents Tanya Raikovska and Pavlina Panova, managed to garner the required 17 votes "for". ...
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Air Force Takes Part in Rammstein Guard-8
September 25 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Air Force joined the NATO exercise, Rammstein Guard-8, the Defence Ministry said. The exercise will be conducted in the air space of Bulgaria, Romania and Greece in the period from September 22 to October 3. The purpose is to enhance the cou...
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Commission Approves "Bulgarsko Rozovo Maslo" as New Protected Geographical Indication
September 25 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The European Commission has approved the addition of a new Bulgarian product to the register of Protected Geographical Indication. "Българско розово масло" (Bulgarsko rozovo maslo) is an essential oil obtained by means of t...
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Bulgarian Foreign Minister Meets with Foreign Counterparts in New York
September 25 (BTA) - Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov met with his counterparts Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey, Nikola Poposki of Macedonia and Ibrahim al-Jaafari of Iraq on September 24 in the sidelines of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the Bulga...
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EC Opens Infringement Proceedings against Bulgaria over Bank Customers' Lack of Immediate Access to Their Money
September 25 (BTA Correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The European Commission is opening infringement proceedings against Bulgaria for its failure to correctly transpose Articles 1(3) and 10(1) of Directive 94/19/EC, the Deposit Guarantee Scheme (DGS) Directive, as well as its...
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European Commission Requests Bulgaria to Respect EU Rules on Freedom of Establishment, Free Movement of Services
September 25 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - The European Commission Thursday requested Bulgaria to respect EU rules on freedom of establishment and free movement of services (Directive 2006/123/EC on services in the internal market).
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Electricity Price Hike Inevitable, but Insufficient, National Electricity Company Says
September 25 (BTA) - The October 1 electricity price increase will cover only 140 million leva of the 1,000 million leva deficit which will be generated only within this regulatory period, Ventsislav Markov, who heads the Regulations Department at the National Electricity Com...
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Prime Minister: Budget Update Inevitable
September 25 (BTA) - A budget update is inevitable and there is a consensus in society on that matter, Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki told journalists in Dobrich on Thursday. He commented that if there were some doubts on the eve of the disbanding of Parliament in early Au...
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Bulgaria Will Work Toward Deepening EU - Colombia Relations, President Plevneliev Says
September 25 (BTA) - Bulgaria will work toward deepening EU's relations with Colombia, which is one of the EU's prospective partners in Latin America and the Caribbean, said President Rosen Plevneliev here on Thursday during a meeting at UN headquarters with his Colombian cou...
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National Health Insurance Fund to Ask for Lv 100 Mln Budget Update
September 25 (BTA) - The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) will ask for its budget to be updated by 100 million leva, NHIF Supervisory Board Chairman and Deputy Finance Minister Kiril Ananiev told journalists here on Thursday. Fifty million leva from the update will go fo...
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In Bulgaria, Europewide Problem of Non-Market Policies in Energy Sector Is Compounded by Structural Problems - Expert
September 25 (BTA) - Mixing the free market of electricity with non-market methods like greenhouse emission trading and green electricity purchasing is a Europewide problem, but in Bulgaria it is compounded by structural problems, Energy Management Institute Management Board ...
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Bulgarian Foreign Minister Meets with Turkish, Macedonian Counterparts in New York
September 25 (BTA) - Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov met with his counterparts Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey and Nikola Poposki of Macedonia on September 24 in the sidelines of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry report...

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