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Bulgaria scraps plan for second nuclear plant
Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River with Russian firm Atomstroyexport, a top official said Wednesday.
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Bulgaria Abandons Belene Nuclear Plant
Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build a nuclear power plant with a Russian reactor at Belene, which Sofia and Moscow agreed on in 2008, the country?s Deputy Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said on Wednesday.
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Bulgaria abandons the Belene nuclear plant project
Sofia (dpa) - Bulgaria has definitively abandoned plans to complete a second nuclear power plant, a high-ranking official said Wednesday after a government meeting.Instead of establishing a nuclear plant at the town of Belene on the Danube, Bulgaria will construct a gas-powered thermal plant, deputy finance minister Vladislav Goranov told reporters.The Belene plant project hit a wall when its ...
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Bulgaria drops nuclear power plant plans (News)
Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build its second nuclear power plant based on Russian technology, an official announced today (28 March). Dnevnik, the EurActiv partner in Bulgaria, reports. More ?
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Bulgaria abandons nuclear project for gas power plant instead
Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build the 2,000 megawatt Belene nuclear power plant on the Danube River and will construct a new gas power plant instead, a deputy finance minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Bulgaria to Appoint 4 New Envoys Abroad
Bulgaria's major diplomatic reshuffle is set to continue, as the country's Council of Ministers has suggested the appointment of four new Ambassadors abroad. Career Diplomats Lyubomir Todorov and Georgi Karastamatov will be appointed as heads of the Bulgaria's diplomatic missions in Finland and Armenia respectively. Former Deputy Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Maya Hristova has been ...
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Bulgaria Socialists Slam Quitting Belene N-Plant
Bulgaria's former energy minister, part of the previous Socialist-led coalition, has blasted the decision of the current center-right government to abandon plans for a second nuclear power plant in Belene. Bulgaria?s government announced on Wednesday it has abandoned plans to build a new, 2000 megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River for which it has contracted Russian state firm ...
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Bulgaria scraps plan for second nuclear plant
Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River with Russian firm Atomstroyexport, a top official said Wednesday.After a government meeting, Vladislav ...
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Bulgaria to Scrap Belene NPP - Report
Bulgaria will officially cancel the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project on Wednesday, according to a report. "Prime Minister Borisov called me at 12:20 today and told me that the Belene NPP project is canceled," journalist Ivo Indzhev wrote in his blog on Wednesday. Bulgaria keeps holding its breath because it is anticipated that Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will inform Wednesday the members of ...
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Bulgaria's Electric Co with New CEO
The financial director of Bulgaria's National Electric Company, NEK, Ivo Lefterov, is temporarily taking over the company. Lefterov will be acting CEO of NEK until the conclusion of the job competition, Deputy Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Valentin Nikolov, announced Wednesday. The latest reshuffle became necessary because NEK CEO, Mihail Andonov, was appointed over the weekend as ...
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Bulgaria Illegal Assets Law to Target Parties Too - Report
Bulgaria's long-delayed bill authorizing widespread confiscation of illegal assets will probe the financing of parties, as well as participants in public procurements, insiders say. "The ruling GERB party is preparing on the sly serious changes to the bill in between the first and second readings," the opposition-leaning Sega daily reported on Wednesday, citing well-informed sources. For the ...
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Bulgaria to Fork Out BGN 2 M after Quitting BA Pipe
Bulgaria will issue another 18 000 shares to cover expenses of Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline, the government decided on Wednesday without providing details. The shares will be worth BGN 1.8 M to be used for covering costs before Bulgaria can conclusively withdraw from the project, the government said in a statement. ...
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Bulgaria Quits Belene Nuclear Power Plant Project
Bulgaria's Belene Nuclear Power Plant will not be constructed, the country's Deputy Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov announced on on Wednesday. A natural gas power plant will be built in the Danube town of Belene instead, Goranov told reporters after Wednesday's Council of Ministers sitting. The nuclear reactor already assembled by Rosatom subsidiary Atomstroyexport and originally meant for ...
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Bulgaria Termed Cheapest 2012 Holiday Destination for Russians
Bulgaria and Greece are the cheapest summer holiday options for Russians, said Tuesday Alexander Tugolukov, Executive Director of the Biblio Globus company. In a statement at the international tourism exhibition MITT 2012 held in Moscow he explained that German tour operators had given up on Greece in 2012. He specified that German travel agencies accounted for 40% of the tourism revenues of ...
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Research and Markets: Bulgaria Defence and Security Report Q2 2012 - Bulgaria Proposes a Procurement With Croatia ...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dc487c/bulgaria_defence_a) has announced the addition of the "Bulgaria Defence and Security Report Q2 2012" report to their offering.
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Bulgaria Set to Ease Full Smoking Ban Once Again - Report
Bulgaria's MPs are allegedly set to go for a "liberalized" version of the much anticipated full smoking ban. The draft bill that bans smoking in closed public spaces is yet to pass first reading, but lawmakers are already considering softening it, according to the Standart daily. MPs from the ruling centrist-right GERB have been quoted saying that the bill will most likely not be passed the way ...
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Bulgaria Phenomenal Gymnast Skips European Championship
Bulgaria's legendary gymnast Yordan Yovchev will skip the European championship in May as he prepares to compete in his six Olympic Games, a record among male gymnasts. Yovchev was scheduled to lead the Bulgarian team to the 2012 European Championships in Montpellier, France in end-May, but gave it up, fearing this could put at risk his performance in London. "We decided not to take any risks....
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Bulgaria Appoints New Deputy Foreign Minister
Bulgaria's ambassador to Poland Ivan Naydenov has been appointed Deputy Foreign Minister in charge of European affairs, the government announced. Naydenov will replace Konstantin Dimitrov, who headed earlier this month for London as the new ambassador there. Ivan Naydenov is a diplomat with long experience in foreign policy, the government said. ...
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Research and Markets: Bulgaria Defence and Security Report Q2 2012 - Bulgaria Proposes a Procurement With Croatia ...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dc487c/bulgaria_defence_a) has announced the addition of the "Bulgaria Defence and Security Report Q2 2012" report to their offering.
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Bulgaria Welcomes Czech President Vaclav Klaus
Czech President and former Prime Minister of the country, Vaclav Klaus, is arriving in Bulgaria Tuesday on a working visit. Klaus is traveling on the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart, Rosen Plevneliev. The two will hold a behind closed door meeting, prior to talks between the official delegations. ...
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