25.4.2007

US president George W Bush is to pay official visit to Bulgaria on a two-day trip in July, Bulgaria's official state news agency BTA reported Tuesday.Bush is expected to meet President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev during his first ever visit to Bulgaria. President Bush will...

25.4.2007

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared an official day of mourning on April 25 to commemorate the death of Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999, will be buried the same day in Moscow.The funeral service will be held in the country's biggest church and will be followed by burial in a...

24.4.2007

If you lose your job, you can sell your home. If you lose your home, you can sell your possessions. If you lose your possessions, you can prostitute yourself. And if you lose everything else, you can sell one more thing: your organs. Twice in the past few weeks, transplant experts from around the world have convened in Europe to discuss the...

24.4.2007

The average residential property prices in Bulgaria for the first quarter of 2007 reached 988.2 leva per sq m, data of National Statistical Institute (NSI) showed.The price increase is 9.3 per cent compared to figures for the last quarter of 2006 when the average price reached 904 leva per sq m, investor.bg reported.Most expensive apartments in...

24.4.2007

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry is working day and night to reduce the human trafficking of Bulgarian citizens and seal its borders for such criminal activities, country's IM Rumen Petkov said on Tuesday. The Ministry must continue its efforts for fighting the as Bulgaria tops the list of people traffickers, Interior Minister Petkov added. He opened...

24.4.2007

‘International Fair Plovdiv' - the largest fair on the Balkans, is planning to start massive and ambitious investment program on the amount of 100 million EUR in autumn 2007, reported money.bg. The necessary resources for the realization of the investment program will be covered by banks and investment funds. Main purpose in the program is...

23.4.2007

SOFIA, Bulgaria: In Bulgaria, people are more likely to be the victim of a car crash than punished for bribery, according to a survey Monday.A report on anti-corruption reforms in this EU newcomer country showed that Bulgarians identify corruption as the country's worst problem.The survey, prepared by the independent Center for the Study of...

23.4.2007

April 15 was the last day of this past winter’s skiing season in two of Bulgaria’s most famous ski resorts, Pamporovo and Bansko. The ski season for the two resorts, the first in Rhodope Mountain and the second in Pirin Mountain, ended simply because on April 15 all ski and lift facilities were closed for repairs. Despite the...

23.4.2007

This is a road safety initiative which will start today under the patronage of Prime minister Sergey Stanishev. With this initiative Bulgaria joins the first United Nations Global Road Safety Week 23-29 April. The Minister of transport Petar Mutafchiev will present the European Chart for road safety, which unites the efforts of the whole society...

23.4.2007

Material and labour costs, as well as stricter control raise construction companies' costsConstruction prices in Bulgaria have gone up by between 10 and 15% in the first months of the country's EU membership, data of entrepreneurs and real estate brokers show. The increase may be attributed mainly to the higher costs of materials, mechanisation...