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Bulgaria lifts women in submarines ban -- but too late [Oct 28, 2010] Bulgaria's defence ministry on Thursday lifted a ban on women serving aboard submarines just as parliament decided to mothball the country's only submarine. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Secures German Investor for Belene Nuclear Plant [Oct 24, 2010] Bulgarian will for sure build its second nuclear power plant at Belene, Parliament Chair Tsetska Tsacheva has declared. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Introduce Flat 9% VAT in Tourism April 2011 [Oct 22, 2010] Bulgaria will introduce a flat 9% value-added tax (VAT) in the tourism sector as of the beginning of April next year under amendments that parliament adopted at first reading on Thursday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Shies Away from Sending Combat Battalion to Afghanistan [Oct 15, 2010] The announcements that Angelov made in July 2010 that Bulgaria will be starting to train a combat battalion for Afghanistan subsequently led to a scandal that nearly lost him his job as Prime Minister Borisov was infuriated by such statements when the Cabinet, not to mention the Parliament, never made any such decisions. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Rejects Informed Consent of Living Donors [Oct 15, 2010] Bulgaria's Parliament has rejected at first reading the proposal to restore the so-called informed consent of living donors in the Human Organ Transplant Act. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Borisov Loses Ground and Temper [Oct 12, 2010] Just over a year after taking office as Bulgaria's prime minister, Boyko Borisov has faced his first no-confidence vote in parliament. He comfortably survived it - not so much due to his own strength but rather thanks to the weakness of his opponents and his allies' fears of early elections. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Says No to Keeping Clients in the Dark over Bank Rates [Oct 08, 2010] Banks in Bulgaria will be obliged to inform customers of any significant movements in interest rates on their accounts or expenses if they are in credit under legal amendments that parliament adopted on Friday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria government survives no-confidence vote [Oct 08, 2010] Source: Reuters SOFIA, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The Bulgarian parliament rejected on Friday the first no-confidence motion against the centre-right government, which was accused by the opposition of failing to overhaul the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Govt Survives No-Confidence Vote [Oct 08, 2010] The proposal was supported by 70 votes and received 144 votes "against" and 1 abstained. The opposition submitted to the Parliament on Friday a motion of no-confidence vote against the government of the center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria ( GERB ) party pver "the failure of its police in health care." [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Parliament Elects New Health Minister [Oct 06, 2010] Bulgaria's parliament has expectedly supported the nomination of Stefan Konstantinov for new health minister to replace Anna-Maria Borisova , who quit last week over a funding row that has put hospitals in debt. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Interior Minister to Answer on ID Documents Issues [Sep 10, 2010] Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov will answer questions in the Parliament about the problems with the issuing of the new identity documents. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Pushes for Unfettered Job Rights, Cites Roma Woes [Sep 09, 2010] Bulgaria has renewed its calls for an open door labor market in the ten older member states that still impose restrictions for job-seekers from the country and its northern neighbor Romania right after the end of the European Parliament summer recess. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Parliament Mulls 2% Tax on Insurance Premiums [Sep 08, 2010] Bulgaria's parliament will debate on Wednesday a bill, which provides for the introduction of a 2% tax on insurance premiums and was moved by the government earlier this year in a bid to boost revenues to the budget. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Interior Faces Opposition Ire over Police Brutality [Jul 28, 2010] Bulgaria's parliament will hear on Wednesday Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov in connection with an incident in the southern town of Kurdzhali, in which plainclothes police officers beat up by mistake a family during an operation. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Interior Minister Demands Transparency, Bigger Sentences [Jul 26, 2010] Bulgaria's Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, reported Monday in the PArliament the work that has been done by his ministry for the past year. Photo by BGNES [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's PM to Report about Russian Talks in Parliament [Jul 16, 2010] Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov will announce Friday at the Parliament the results from the discussions with the Russian First Deputy PM Viktor Zubkov. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's PM to Announce New Deputy Parliamentary Chair [Jul 13, 2010] Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov will decide Tuesday who will replace Lachezar Ivanov as Deputy-Speaker of the Parliament. The GERB MPs Anastas Anastasov, Krasimir Tsipov and Zhivko Todorov are some of the candidates. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ruling Party Dealt Heavy Blow over State Gazette Scandal [Jul 13, 2010] A blunder that put an illegitimate amendment to the drugs law in the State Gazette will most probably throw out of their high posts two members of Bulgaria's parliament, elected on the ticket of the ruling GERB party. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Marks 20 Years since Convention of Constitutional Assembly [Jul 09, 2010] Bulgaria's Parliament is holding a special sitting commemorating 20 years since the convening of the Grand National Assembly in 1990 which led to the country's current Constitution. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Parliament Debates Conclusively Revised Budget 2010 [Jul 08, 2010] Bulgaria's Parliament will discuss at second reading the 2010 Budget Revision Act tabled in early June by the center-right government of the GERB party over rising deficit necessitating austerity measures. [via YahooNews] More >>