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Foreign Diplomats Stress Importanceof Longer Debate on Laws before Passage, Predictable Business Environment
September 10 (BTA) - "Bulgaria's Parliament and parliamentarians can benefit from a unique democracy: laws are moved and voted quite quickly here. What is important, however, is to pass fewer laws but to debate them longer," British Ambassador in Sofia Jonathan Allen said in ...
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July Retail Trade Turnover Up 0.5 Per Cent from June
July Retail Trade Turnover Up 0.5 Per Cent from June (BTA) - According to preliminary seasonally adjusted data, released by the National Statistical Institute on Tuesday, the turnover in 'Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles' at constant prices increased...
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Record Large Heroin Seizure at Vidin
September 9 (BTA) - Customs inspectors in Vidin (Northwestern Bulgaria) have seized a record large amount of heroin, nearly 200 kilos, the Customs Agency said. A mobile team stopped a Polish-registered truck for a check at the Danube Bridge 2 border checkpoint on September 6....
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Halting of Public Procurement Procedures Exposes Certification of Costs to Risk - Agriculture Minister
September 9 (BTA) - Agriculture and Food Minister Vassil Groudev issued a position in connection with a decision of the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) to annual a public procurement procedure for the selection of a Certifying Authority (CA) under the Rural...
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Polling Agency: Electoral Attitudes at Campaign Start Outline Five-party Parliament
September 9 (BTA) - Electoral attitudes at the launch of the parliamentary election campaign are outlining a five-party Parliament, a national representative survey of Alpha Research polling agency conducted between August 31 and September 5 among 1,025 respondents showed. Th...
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Another Report on Corpbank Due September 21
September 9 (BTA) - Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) Governor Ivan Iskrov told Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov on Tuesday that the central bank will publish another report on the condition of the ailing Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) on September 21. The news was report...
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OSCE Election Observers to Focus on Campaign Funding, Vote Buying, Participation of Minorities
September 9 (BTA) - The mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for the October 5 early general elections in Bulgaria will pay special attention to several issues, said Ambassador Audrey Glover of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institute and ...
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Pensioners Want Bulgarian MEPs to Press for EU Common Poverty Line
September 9 (BTA) - Speaking at a news conference at BTA's Press Club on Tuesday, Dimiter Kisimov, Chairman of the Association of Pensioners in Bulgaria, said pensioners want the Bulgarian MEPs to press for a common poverty line throughout the EU.
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European Commission Considers State Aid to BDZ Permissible
September 9 (BTA) - A special letter of support sent by Directorate General Competition to Transport, Information Technology and Communications Minister Nikolina Angelkova says that the European Commission considers the state aid for restructuring of Bulgarian State Railways ...
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Environment Ministry Elaborates Decision on Oil and Gas Development in Dobroudja
September 9 (BTA) - The Environment and Water Ministry said on Tuesday it has elaborated its earlier decision about a project for oil and natural gas prospecting and extraction in Northeastern Bulgaria.
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Finance Ministry Successfully Places Issue of One-year Lv-Denominated Government Securities
September 9 (BTA) - The Finance Ministry has successfully placed an issue of one-year leva-denominated discount government securities with maturity September 10, 2015, the ministry said in a press release Tuesday. At the auction held on Monday, the annual average weighted...
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Court Upholds Indefinite Custody for Turkish Heroin Trafficker
, September 9 (BTA) - The Appellate Court in Plovdiv upheld a lower court decision that Turkish national Nail Salaam should be held in indefinite custody on charges of trafficking 33.5 kg of heroin across the border from Turkey into Bulgaria. The price of the drug is estim...
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New British Ambassador to Sofia Emma Hopkins Expected to Take Up Appointment in May 2015
September 8 (BTA) - Mrs Emma Kate Hopkins OBE has been appointed Her MajestyÒs Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria in succession to Mr Jonathan Guy Allen, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment, the British Embassy in Sofia said on its website...
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Good Weather Conditions for Sowing of Wheat in Dobroudja
September 9 (BTA) - The wheat sowing campaign in Dobroudja - Bulgaria's breadbasket, is expected to start in the second half of the month in good weather conditions, Director of the Dobroudja Farming Institute Ivan Kiryakov said. Despite the heavy summer rains, the soil is ...
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GERB Sends All of Party's Runners for MPs to Help People in Flood-hit Areas
September 9 (BTA) - GERB has decided to send all of its candidates for the October 5 parliamentary elections to help people in areas hit by the recent floods, the party said in a press release. The more than 470 GERB runners will joint the effort of cleaning of people's f...
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Search for Corpbank Majority Owner Tsvetan Vassilev Is in Interpol's Competency, not in Prosecuting Magistracy's Powers
September 8 (BTA) - The search for Corporate Commercial Bank's (Corpbank) majority owner Tsvetan Vassilev is not in the powers of the prosecuting magistracy, but in the competency of Interpol, reads a press release published by the prosecuting magistracy on Monday in light of...
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Justice Minister Meets with Prison Officers; 24-Hour Duty to Be Partially Reintroduced in Prisons
September 8 (BTA) - The Justice Ministry yielded to the demands of prison officers' trade unions: a mixed regime of duty will be introduced in 80 per cent of the detention facilities in Bulgaria. This transpired after a Monday meeting between Caretaker Justice Minister Hristo...
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Negligible Difference between Number of People with Voting Rights Announced by Civil Registration Authority and Number ...
September 8 (BTA) - The difference in the number of people with voting rights announced by the Directorate General of Civil Registration and Administrative Services and in the number of people with valid ID cards is negligible so that it is wrong to allege the presence of "on...
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BD Bank Analysis: Bulgarian Banking System Passed through Serious Shock, Interest on Creditsand Deposits Is Going Down
September 8 (BTA) - At the end of June the Bulgarian banking system went through a serious shock, with two of the system's commercial banks being subject to a run on deposits, a financial analysis for the second quarter of 2014 prepared by the Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB)...
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Unemployed People Decrease by 58,730 So Far in 2014
September 8 (BTA) - Bulgaria's unemployed people have decreased by 58,730 so far in 2014, the Employment Agency reported on Monday. The unemployment rate stood at 10.4 per cent in August 2014, down by 0.2 percentage points compared with July 2014 and down by 0.3 percentag...
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