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Bulgaria Boasts 22.2% Women in Government [May 17, 2012] Bulgaria ranks among the countries with over 20% of women in the government, outpacing a number of other European countries like Poland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia and Greece. Bulgaria has four women in a 17-strong cabinet (22.22%) - Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva, Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova, Environment ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Seeks Investor for Romania-Turkey Road [May 03, 2012] Bulgaria will seek public-private partnership for the construction of the Ruse-Veliko Tarnovo-Svilengrad-Istanbul toll road, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova. In a Thursday interview for private TV station bTV, she said that this would allow a faster connection of the Bosphorus with the Danube Bridge through European Transport Corridor #9. The Regional Development ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ups Highway Speed Limit in Controversial Move [Apr 25, 2012] Bulgaria's MPs have approved at first reading proposed legislative amendments that allow the country's highway speed limit to grow from 130 km/h to 140 km/h (87 mph). "We want to increase the speed limit because of the new highways under construction and the new, high quality roads. The existing restrictions will remain in the risky road sections," explained Regional Development Minister Liliana ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Govt to Complete Sofia-Black Sea Highway July 1 [Apr 06, 2012] Bulgaria's first major highway, "Trakiya", linking Sofia to the Black Sea coast at Burgas is to be completed ahead of schedule, Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova announced. In her words, the builders of the 360-km highway has committed to completing it ahead of schedule with July 1 being the most optimistic deadline for the still uncompleted Lots 2 and 3. At the same time, the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Devt Minister Vows Focus on Northern Highway Project [Jan 03, 2012] The construction of the Hemus Highway ? the one major highway project in Northern Bulgaria ? is set to get a boost, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova. She said the Borisov Cabinet hopes to complete the entire southern Traikya Highway between Sofia and Burgas in 2012, with Lots 2, 3, and most of Lot 4 being ready by July 1, 2012, for the summer tourist season, but that ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Tests High-Speed Railway Section to Turkish Border [Dec 22, 2011] Bulgaria's government has made a test run of a newly renovated southern highway railway section where trains can go at 160 km/h. The testing of a section of the Plovdiv-Svilengrad railway line, which runs from the center of Southern Bulgaria to the border with Turkey, was attended by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski, Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Water Sector Reform Won't Up Bills, Minister Says [Dec 05, 2011] Water sector reforms will not affect water prices but may reduce the number of water supply and sewerage operators, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova. In a Monday statement cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA), she explained that Bulgaria would need a minimum of EUR 2.5 B for the finalization of priority wastewater treatment plant projects in the next ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Regional Devt Minister Confesses to Omissions in Electoral Rolls [Oct 26, 2011] Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister, who is in charge of the Directorate General of Civil Registration and Administrative Service (GRAO), has admitted that there were cases of unfounded removal of names from electoral rolls at the October 23 presidential and local elections. Lilyana Pavlova attributed the errors to the faulty system for civil registration and insisted that the Civil ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Deputy Regional Minister Quits [Sep 20, 2011] Bulgaria's Deputy Regional Development Minister Georgi Pregyov resigned on Tuesday just two weeks after the replacement of the department's head, who will run for the presidency office. Pregyov, who was responsible for the Directorate for national construction control, the Agency for geodesy, cartography and cadastre and road projects, has cited personal reasons. It was not immediately clear who ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Most Popular Minister Quits to Run for President [Sep 07, 2011] Bulgaria's regional development minister is expected to resign from his cabinet post on Wednesday, three days after the ruling party nominated him to run for president in the October 23 presidential vote. Rosen Plevneliev, 47, will quit office after a two-year stint as minister, during which he put in lots of efforts to renew Bulgaria's crumbling infrastructure and managed to become the most ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria ruling party names presidential candidate [Sep 05, 2011] Bulgaria?s ruling right-wing GERB party has nominated regional development minister Rosen Plevneliev as its candidate for the October 23 presidential election, the prime minister announced yesterday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Opens Bids for Struma Highway Lot 1 [Jul 07, 2011] The bids, which were submitted for a section of the future Struma Highway, connecting Sofia to the border with Greece, will be opened on Thursday, the road infrastructure agency announced. A record number of bidders ? 19 ? applied with offers to build Lot 1 of the Struma Highway ? including companies from Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Germany, and Greece. Regional Development Minister Rosen ... [via YahooNews] More >>

EU Danube Strategy Paves Way for Bulgaria's Bright Future - Regional Devt Minister [Jun 30, 2011] The EU Strategy for the Danube Region is expected to contribute in a number of crucial ways for Bulgaria's development, Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev has declared in Ruse. Plevneliev hosted a news conference on a boat in the Danube River off Ruse's coast on Thursday, together with Hungarian Ambassador to Buglaria Judit Lang, Bulgaria's Deputy Economy Minister in charge of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Priority Projects Under 'Bulgaria 2020' Included in Trans-European Road Network [Jun 30, 2011] Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev has termed "a big victory for Bulgaria" the fact that the priority projects under the Bulgaria 2020 strategy (seven highways, seven high-speed thor [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Struma Highway to Feature Bear Bridges, Rabbit Fences [Jun 08, 2011] The future Struma Highway connecting Sofia to the border with Greece will be the first one in Bulgaria to feature special facilities for wild animals such as bears and hares. Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev told journalists Wednesday that Bulgaria will take after developed Western European countries such as the Netherlands in building highway facilities that protect wild animals ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Starts Rehabilitation of Abandoned Northern Road [Jun 03, 2011] A whole array of senior government officials have given the start of the rehabilitation of the road between the Northern Bulgarian cities Pleven and Lovech, its first repairs in 26 years. The road infrastructure project was opened by Deputy PM and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, a native of Lovech, Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev, and Parliament Chair Tsetska Tsacheva, who is ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Regional Development Minister Denies Presidential, Mayor Bid [Apr 18, 2011] Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister, Rosen Plevneliev, has denied the rumors hi will be running for president or Mayor of the capital Sofia in the upcoming Presidential and local elections in the fall of 2011. Plevneliev pointed out that he has been offered his current job because of his expert knowledge and business experience, and in order to achieve specific results. "I am not a ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Start Struma Highway Tenders by December [Oct 30, 2010] Bulgaria will begin the tenders for two more lots of the southwestern highway Struma by December at the latest, according to Regional Development Minister Plevneliev. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Pour BGN 1.7 B in Infrastructure in 2011 [Oct 26, 2010] Bulgaria's government is planning a total investment of about BGN 1.7 B in infrastructure construction in 2011. The figure was revealed by Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev on Tuesday, the professional holiday of builders in Bulgaria. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Socialists Said to Undermine Key Highway Project [May 03, 2010] Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister, Rosen Plevneliev, is pictured here during the signing of the contract for the construction of a new stretch of the Trakiya Highway. [via YahooNews] More >>