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Bulgaria found to be cheapest European destinations
The cost of taking a break in Bulgaria is the best-value of all the European destinations, a recent Post Office study has found.
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Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry Braces for Layoffs
There will be inevitable layoffs in Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry due to budget cuts, the country's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov revealed on Monday. In an interview for the Bulgarian National Television, Mladenov neither confirmed nor denied the rumor that a total of 130 people will lose their jobs. Commenting on recent statements that border control may be reinstated within the Schengen area ...
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Bulgaria Tries to Lure Indian Business, Tourists
Bulgaria has invited Indian companies to take advantage of its multi-lingual workforce and tax incentives and use it as a gateway to the European Union. There is immense scope to increase trade ties between India and Bulgaria in the area of IT, hi-tech, pharmaceuticals, food processing and other areas, according to Bulgarian Ambassador to India Borislav Kostov. Kostov has pointed out that his ...
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Bulgaria's Parliament to Discuss Failed No-Confidence Vote
Bulgaria's Parliament will hold a sitting on Monday on which a recently submitted no-confidence motion against ruling centrist-right GERB is scheduled to be discussed. The lawmakers are expected to discuss whether there are legal grounds for the no-confidence vote to be canceled or not rather than the reasons for the no-confidence vote per se. Last week, far-right Ataka's parliamentary group ...
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Bulgaria woos Indian firms, tourists
Bulgaria has invited Indian companies to make it a home base for the European Union and take advantage of its multi-lingual workforce and tax incentives.
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Bulgaria woos Indian firms, tourists
Assures hassle-free investment opportunity: The Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister, Mr C. Damodar Raja Narasimha, the Ambassador of Bulgaria to India, Mr Borislav Kostov, and the State Civil Supplies Minister, Mr D. Sridhar Babu, during the inauguration of Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Bulgaria in Hyderabad.
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Bulgaria woos Indian firms, tourists
Bulgaria has invited Indian companies to make it a home base for the European Union and take advantage of its multi-lingual workforce and tax incentives.
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Bulgaria, India cooperate closely in international arena
Hyderabad, Apr 21 : Mr Borislav Kostov, Ambassador of Bulgaria to India, said today Bulgaria and India cooperate closely at the international arena.
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Bulgaria Expects 20% Increase in Russian Tourists 2012 - EconMin
Bulgaria expects to see an approximately 20% increase in Russian tourists this year, according to the country's Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Delyan Dobrev. Dobrev pointed out that Russian tourists with Schengen visas can now visit Bulgaria, which would boost the Bulgarian tourism sector. "We expect a significant growth, especially on the Russian market," the Minister said. ...
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Bulgaria's Socialist Opposition Call for IMF Aid
A leading politician from the opposition Bulgarian Socialist party has called for an urgent deal with the International Monetary Fund, saying the country badly needs it. "We need the IMF to restore Bulgaria's financial policy, bring it back to where it was before the center-right government of GERB took office in 2009," former Energy and Economy Minister Rumen Ovcharov said on Saturday in an ...
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Bulgaria opens consulate in Hyderabad
Bulgaria is all set to open its consulate in Hyderabad following the appointment of Y Kiran Kumar, Chief Executive Officer of Suchir India -- a major infrastructure player, as honorary consul.Bulgaria... Related Stories Congress leaders want leadership change in the state Kerala fishermen's relatives feel cheated Kerala expecting huge overseas investment: Chandy Plan panel approves Rs 14,010 ...
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Bulgaria Opens Consulate in India's Hyderabad
Bulgaria is to inaugurate officially on Saturday its consulate in India's Hyderabad, to be headed by the CEO of a major local infrastructure player. Bulgarian Ambassador Borislav Kostov will formally inaugurate the consulate at a ceremony, to be attended by Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha and Minister for Civil Supplies and NRI Affairs D. Sridhar Babu. ...
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Bulgaria's NPP Kozloduy Moves to Extend Reactor Life by 20 Years
Bulgaria's only operational nuclear power plant in the Danube town of Kozloduy has started the first phase of the procedure to extend the life of its two 1000 MW reactors by 20 years. The Kozloduy NPP has made a contract with a consortium of Rosenergoatom Russia and French company EDF formally called Consortium OAD "Concern Rosenergoatom" (Russia) ? EDF (France) for complex surveying and ...
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Bulgaria opens consulate in Hyderabad
Bulgaria is all set to open its consulate in Hyderabad following the appointment of Y. Kiran Kumar, chief executive officer of Suchir India -- a major infrastructure player, as honorary consul.
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World Football - Petrov thanks Bulgaria fans for support
Bulgaria captain Stiliyan Petrov has expressed his gratitude to fans back home for their support as he battles acute leukaemia.
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Bulgaria Slams Switzerland for Restoring Foreign Worker Quotas
Bulgaria has criticized Switzerland for the decision of its authorities to restore the quotas for foreign laborers from eight Eastern European member states of the EU (Bulgaria included). "Bulgaria is concerned by the decision of the Swiss authorities to re-introduce quotas for foreign workers from eight European Union member states," Vesela Cherneva, spokesperson of the Bulgarian Foreign ...
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Bulgaria offers citizenship to Gorani community
BELGRADE -- Bulgaria is intensifying efforts to provide citizenship and other benefits to the poverty-stricken Gorani community in Kosovo and Albania, SETimes writes.
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Bulgaria-Romania 2nd Danube Bridge 73% Completed
The second bridge linking Bulgaria and Romania across the Danube has been completed at 73%, the Spanish construction firm FCC announced Thursday. The adjacent infrastructure of the Vidin-Calafat bridge has been completed at 89%, with the so called Danube Bridge 2 expected to be fully operational at the end of 2012. FCC also said a total of 942 personnel are working on the construction of the ...
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Bulgaria's Wheat Output to Drop by 20%, Ukrainian Firm Predicts
Bulgaria's wheat harvest will fall about 20% in 2012, following adverse weather, according to Kiev, Ukraine- based UkrAgroConsult. Thus, if UkrAgroConsult's forecast is correct, Bulgaria's wheat production will decline to about 3.4 million metric tons in 2012, down from the record output of 4....
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Bulgaria's President Outlines 6 Badly Needed Devt Priorities
Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev has outlined six major priorities for regional development at the first meeting of the Bulgarian Council for Development of Regions and National Infrastructure. The newly-founded Council has been initiated by Plevneliev himself as part of his presidential election campaign promises. According to the President, a former construction entrepreneur and Regional ...
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