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Bulgaria Criminal Property Agency Head Mysteriously Resigns
Todor Kolarov, chair of Bulgaria's Commission for Establishing of Property Acquired from Criminal Activity, has submitted his resignation Friday. Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov has promptly responded he will accept the resignation, arguing that Kolarov had obstructed the work of the Commission. On his part, Kolarov pointed out "a lack of a reform-minded majority in the Commission and a lack of ...
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Bulgaria's GERB to Audit Predecessors' Bonuses
Bulgaria's ruling GERB have asked the National Audit Office, NAO, to submit a report for bonuses obtained by Deputy Ministers during the term of the previous Three-Way Coalition cabinet. The news was reported Friday by the Chairman of the parliamentary group of Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, in the heels of a publication in "Trud" (Labor) daily that politicians - current ...
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Bulgaria's Retirement Funds' Assets Grow by 15% to BGN 4.5 B
The assets of Bulgaria's retirement funds grew by 14.68% in 2011 year-on-year, a report of the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission shows. The preliminary results about the private retirement funds in Bulgaria are based on their financial reports to the FSC. ...
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Bulgaria Joins First 'Friends of Syria' Meeting
Some 70 nations and international organizations, Bulgaria included, are holding Friday in Tunisia the first formal meeting of the self-styled "Friends of Syria" group. The group will also bring together Syrian opponents of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The group, which was formed to address Syria's crisis outside the UN, is expected to hear Syrian opposition pleas for military ...
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Bulgaria Backs Serbia in Becoming Official EU Candidate
Bulgaria declared Thursday its support for granting Serbia an official EU candidate member statute. The country followed in the footsteps of France, Italy and Austria, who made similar moves earlier during the day. The support was voiced by Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, in connection of the forthcoming meeting of the European Union's General Affairs and External Relations ...
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FinMin: EC Ranks Bulgaria 5th in EU by Growth Forecast
Bulgaria's Finance Ministry has reacted to Thursday's drastic lowering of the European Commission economic forecast for the country with a relativistic approach. Bulgaria's economy will register a growth of 1.4% in 2012, stated the February Interim Economic Forecast of the European Commission unveiled Thursday. ...
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Bulgaria to Sign MoU on "Roman Emperors' Road" Tourism Project
Traicho Traikov, Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, will sign Friday in Novi Sad a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the implementation of the "Roman Emperors' Road" tourism project. The "Roman Emperors' Road" is a project for an international cultural itinerary of four countries ? Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Serbia. It is aimed at promoting cultural heritage from the Roman Empire ...
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Bulgaria to Take Part in Danish Tourism Fair
Bulgaria's Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism has organized Bulgaria's participation at this year's "Ferie for Alle" (Vacation for Everyone) tourism fair in Herning, Denmark. The fair will take place between February 24 and February 26. Bulgaria's 24-square meter pavilion will present the country as a year-round tourists destination, with sea, cultural, Spa and golf tourism in the focus. ...
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Bulgaria's abandoned children crave tenderness
The pallid little face and big sad eyes of two-year-old Gergana say it all -- she is starving for tenderness like thousands of other children abandoned in social care homes across Bulgaria.
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Bulgaria's Ex-President, Deputy to Explain Decree, Pardoning Scandal
Bulgaria's former President, Georgi Parvanov, and Vice President, Angel Marin, have called their first conference since their last term in office ended in January. On Thursday, Parvanov and Marin are expected to discuss the decree scandal that recently emerged involving Marin's potential illegitimacy as Vice President and his pardoning of felons. It was recently revealed that Parvanov failed to ...
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Bulgaria to Open Honorary Consulate in Iceland
Bulgaria will open an honorary consulate in Reykjavik, it has been announced. Sigridur Ingvarsdottir, who is President of the Caritas world charity organization since 1993, will head the consulate, the Bulgarian government has informed. Ingvarsdottir has graduated in political science from the University in Iceland in 1984....
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Bulgaria Worried, Says Romania Is Blocking Its Trucks
Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry has expressed its concern with the difficulties Bulgarian trucks have been experiencing in Romania that have led to queues of vehicles at the two countries' border cross points with each other. The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has demanded that Romanian authorities explain the situation. "Bulgaria cannot accept actions that hamper the free movement of people, goods and ...
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Europe's 1st Chinese auto plant opens in Bulgaria
BAHOVITSA, Bulgaria (AFP) - Great Wall Motors became on Tuesday the first Chinese automaker to open an assembly plant in Europe, aiming to produce 50,000 vehicles per year for the whole continent in northern Bulgaria.
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Bulgaria MPs Swallow the Bitter Pill of Frozen Pay
Bulgaria's members of parliament have agreed, though reluctantly, to extend the freeze on their salaries that expired at the beginning of 2012. The motion, tabled by the ruling GERB party, was approved by 133 MPs, three voted against and one abstained. It did not pass without a bit of drama, however. ...
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Bulgaria's Lokomotiv sign 18 players in survival bid
Struggling Bulgarian club Lokomotiv Sofia have signed 18 new players in a bid to stay in the domestic top flight, the Bulgarian Football Union said on Wednesday.
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Summary Box: China carmaker plant in Bulgaria
CHINA ARRIVES: Great Wall Motors launched operations in Bulgaria on Tuesday, becoming the first Chinese automaker to assemble cars in the European Union.
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Great Wall opens in Bulgaria, as Chinese automakers flock to Europe
Chinese automaker Great Wall has inaugurated its first European plant in Bulgaria, the latest Chinese name to set foot on the continent in a bid to challenge the dominance of European and US brands.
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Europe's first Chinese auto plant opens in Bulgaria
BAHOVITSA, Bulgaria (AFP) - Great Wall Motor became on Tuesday the first Chinese automaker to open an assembly plant in Europe, aiming to produce 50,000 vehicles per year for the whole continent in northern Bulgaria.
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Bulgaria's Rulers Seal Sacking of Discredited Health Chief
Bulgaria's ruling center-right party GERB has approved the resignation of discredited Bulgarian National Health Insurance Fund (NZOK) Director, Neli Nesheva The "Nesheva" scandal flared after Members of the Parliament from the right-wing Blue Coalition released for the media documents showing that all while NZOK is in shambles, its employees have received in 2011 over BGN 2 M in bonuses, of ...
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