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Interior Minister: Ex Agents Should Not Represent Bulgaria
Bulgaria's Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov. Photo by BGNES Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has expressed his opinion that people who have collaborated with the former State Security should not represent the country abroad and be involved in foreign policy.
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Bulgaria's Right-wing Leader Supports Removal of Discredited Diplomats
Bulgaria's ruling party GERB has to clean the country from the agents of the former State Security because they are like an anchor to the past, the leader of the right-wing Democrats for Strong Bulgaria party, Ivan Kostov , said.
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Bulgaria Might Kill Burgas-Alexandroupolis Pipeline by Not Paying Dues
Bulgaria has failed to pay the EUR 6 M that it owes as its contribution to the joint project company with Greece and Russia, which is supposed to construct the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline.
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Bulgaria Braces for Snowy Weekend
Significant snowfall is impeding traffic in Bulgaria?s capital Sofia Thursday morning. File photo
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Bulgaria To Recall Former Communist Spies Serving As Diplomats
(RTTNews) - Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov said Wednesday that his government would request President President Georgi Parvanov to recall ambassadors who had previously served as agents of the former communist secret service.
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Bulgaria CO2 trade could be restored by May June
Bulgaria's carbon trading rights could be fully restored by next May or early June an environment ministry spokeswoman told Reuters.
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Bulgaria Delays Plan on Decreasing Gas Emissions
Bulgaria has delayed the completion of a plan on decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Photo by BGNES
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Germany's WAZ sells its Bulgaria assets
German media group WAZ has sold Bulgaria's two leading newspapers to an investment group led by Austrian, Karl Habsburg.
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Bulgaria diplomats in spying row
Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boiko Borisov says 45 diplomats revealed to be former agents of the country's communist secret service should be fired.
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Bulgaria red-faced over diplomats with dark communist past
Bulgaria said Wednesday it may recall many of its top diplomats in capitals across the world following embarrassing revelations that they were former spies.
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Bulgaria's Only Stock Exchange Goes Public
Bulgaria's only stock exchange became a public company after the Financial Supervision Commission approved its prospectus and the bourse was listed on its own platform.
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Bulgaria's Police Boss Urges for Full Use of Schengen Information System
Bulgaria should take advantage of the Schengen Information System (SIS) because it is a powerful tool against organized crime, Bulgaria's Secretary General to the Interior Ministry, Kalin Georgiev , has announced.
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Bulgaria Commits to Painful Railway Reforms to Get World Bank Loans
Bulgaria's Cabinet and the World Bank have singed a "memorandum of understanding" for reforms in the Bulgarian state railways company BDZ.
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Bulgaria examines the CO2 capture and storage technology
Bulgaria's Economy Ministry is examining the possibility of using the storage and capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) technology on the territory of the country, Dnevnik said.
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Bulgaria Doubles Electricity Export in 2010
Bulgaria has marked a record high of sales of electricity abroad in 2010, doubling the amount sold for the previous year. For 2010, Bulgaria will have exported 7500 GWh, while the amount for 2009 was 3700 GWh, announced the National Electric Company (NEK) Saturday.
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Bulgaria's Ex-Foreign Minister not Surprised by Diplomats with Communist State Security Past
Bulgaria's former Foreign Minister Solomon Passy. Photo by BGNES The list with Bulgarian Ambassadors and Consuls, who have been agents of the former Communist State Security , has been known by all recent Foreign Ministers.
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Bulgaria's President to Tackle Election Code Amendments
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov will take part in a public discussion focusing on the " Election Code " changes, organized by his own civic movement.
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Bulgaria Rulers, Opposition Clash over Flat VAT in Tourism
Bulgaria's ruling party has opposed proposals for a delay in the introduction of a flat 9% value-added tax (VAT) in the tourism sector, scheduled for April 1 next year.
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Bulgaria Again Offered Nuclear Plant Financing
GOVEDARTSI, Bulgaria ? Bulgaria needs to reach a deal with Russia on the price of a planned nuclear plant at Belene before it decides how to proceed with the 2,000-megawatt project, the executive director of state power utility NEK said.
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Bulgaria to Have New Rennewable Energy Act
Bulgaria's new Renewable Energy source act will be ready in two weeks, the country's Energy Minister has stated.
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