09.7.2007

Thanks to its strategic geographical location, Bulgaria is a valuable ally and partner to any of the world's superpowers as, in fact, it has always been. Being a young democracy, the changes in Bulgaria's geopolitical situation are not so much the result of our own political actions, as of some global reshuffles on the world and European...

08.7.2007

SOFIA (AFP) - Bulgaria's wilderness areas, among the largest in Europe, are threatened by property investors who use legal loopholes to contest the territories' protected status to build holiday flats.Last week, Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court stripped the protected status from the country's largest nature area, Strandzha, which spreads...

08.7.2007

Swiss foundation New7Wonders, who organised the six-year campaign to pick a new set of world wonders to replace the ones destroyed in the Ancient era, has now turned its sights on the natural world.Fresh after Saturday's gala event in which the new seven wonders of the world were unveiled, the foundation has now announced it was taking...

06.7.2007

Slovenia – on the top, Bulgaria – at the bottom, conclude American scientists in a research on East European countries- members of the EU.This became clear from a survey of The University of California, published on the website of the European delegation in Bulgaria.The Los Angeles scientists believe that East European countries have...

05.7.2007

The urban property market is booming across ex-communist EU member states as foreign investors flood in and locals climb onto the property ladder -- even in the region's dour concrete tower-block estates.Average prices in the Polish capital Warsaw rose by more than 50 per cent last year to reach 1,935 euros (2,620 dollars) per square metre,...

05.7.2007

Bulgaria's Environment Ministry is to fight a Supreme Court decision revoking the protected status of a Black Sea nature park, a ruling which opens the door to the construction of holiday homes. "We will definitely appeal. We are preparing the appeal at the moment," a ministry spokeswoman on Wednesday. Last week the country's Supreme...

05.7.2007

One of the most often seen vehicles in Bulgaria’s Bansko winter resort is a heavy-loaded truck, Capital weekly reported. Bansko mayor Alexander Kravarov told Capital several months ago that none of the constructions were illegal. Soon after, the Supreme Administrative Prosecution ordered inspection of all projects. Results presented three months later revealed that inspectors found irregularities in nearly half of the constructions. The inspection focused on 400 projects, started...

04.7.2007

Jazz represents a merging of different people and cultures. The phenomenon spread across America and Europe merging with traditional music creating the basis for blues and ragtime from which jazz evolved. And now, the music genre that originated in the plantation fields of deep southern America, is a form of music celebrated globally. Bansko in...

04.7.2007

Bulgaria’s capital city, Sofia, could be the next big thing in property investment, according to independent European property investment analysts, Property Secrets.Although Bulgaria has been pegged as one of Europe’s best investment opportunities for the last few years, there has always been a focus on coastal and ski resorts. But...

03.7.2007

The owners of Mall of Sofia, private equity and property company Quinlan Private and GE Real Estate, Monday announced the purchase of the Mall of Plovdiv shopping center in Bulgaria, reports news agency Dow Jones Dow Jones said no price was disclosed but a person familiar with the situation told the news agency the shopping center was sold for...