Bulgaria Politics

At the spring European Council, the leaders of the European Union agreed to postpone making a decision on when Romania and Bulgaria join the Schengen Area until September, because of The Netherlands' veto.A More specifically, the Dutch Government argues that Romania and Bulgaria have not made enough progress against corruption and organised crime.

Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Estonia 's government will start discussions on whether the country should close its embassy in Bulgaria, according to a Russian news agency.

Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Estonia 's government will start discussions on whether the country should close its embassy in Bulgaria, according to a Russian news agency.

The Bulgarian government is implementing a full-scale program to ensure the safe disposal of sewage waters along the Black Sea coast, assured Bulgaria's Minister of Regional Development Lilyana Pavlova .

Malta recorded the sharpest drop in government debt in the EU during the third quarter of last year, Eurostat figures issued today show. Eurostat said that at the end of the third quarter of 2011, the government debt to GDP ratio in the euro area (EA17) stood at 87.4%, down compared with 87.7% at the end of the second quarter of 2011. In the EU27 the ratio increased from 81.7% to 82.2%. Compared with the third quarter of 2010, the government debt to GDP ratio rose in both the euro area (from 83.2% to 87.4%) and the EU27 (from 78.5% to 82.2%). The highest ratios of government debt to GDP at the end of the third quarter of 2011 were recorded in Greece (159.1%), Italy (119.6%), Portugal (110.1%) and Ireland (104.9%), and the lowest in Estonia (6.1%), Bulgaria (15.0%) and Luxembourg (18.5%). Compared with the second quarter of 2011, fourteen Member States registered an increase in their debt to GDP ratio at the end of the third quarter of 2011, and thirteen a decrease. The highest increases in the ratio were recorded in Hungary (+4.8 percentage points - pp), Greece (+4.4 pp) and Portugal (+3.6 pp), and the largest decreases in Italy and Malta (both -1.6 pp) and...

Ex Bulgarian EU Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva, and ex Education Minister, Daniel Valchev , both appointed to the posts on the ticket of the party of former Tsar Simeon Saxe-Coburg, during the Saturday meeting in the city of Shumen.

The Ukraine government says 18 people have died of hypothermia in recent days as the country was hit by a severe cold spell.

Bulgaria's government plans to sell a minority stake at the Bulgarian Energy Holding to raise several hundred million euro.

Bowing to public pressure, Bulgaria's government says U.S. oil company Chevron cannot explore for shale gas in the country using the extraction technique known as "fracking." Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said that under Tuesday's decision "Chevron can still have the right to test for oil and gas, but without using the controversial technology of ... (more)

Owners of destroyed FMD-infected livestock are seen awaiting the payment of compensations by the government in the Tsarevo municipality.

Several thousand Bulgarians demonstrated across the country on Saturday against plans for shale gas exploration by US company Chevron that they say could harm the environment.

About 1,000 youngsters marched along the streets of the capital Sofia, beating drums and blowing whistles as "a wake-up call to all Bulgarians," an AFP correspondent at the scene reported.

They urged people to push the government to impose a ban on hydraulic fracturing or "fracking", the most commonly used method for shale gas exploration that opponents say might contaminate drinking water.

The Bulgarian government gave military intelligence to Germany and NATO regarding "Operation Horseshoe" in 1999, the alleged plan by Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic for the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, according to Novinite .

Bulgaria's government turned over to Germany and NATO intelligence information about " Operation Horseshoe " - the Kosovo ethnic cleansing plan of ex Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic back in 1999 .

The Transport Ministry has said that parts of the east-west route stretching from Bulgaria to Albania, which forms part of the European Corridor 8, will be financed through loans raised by the government.

Preserving Bulgaria's fiscal and economic stability is among the main tasks of the government for 2012, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has declared on the first day of 2012.

Bulgarian producers and sellers of alcoholic drinks of suspicious origin will face hefty fines, the government decided on Wednesday, bringing local laws in line with EU legislation.

Several regional archaeology museums in Bulgaria have been accused by Cabinet ministers of "sabotaging" construction work on two of the country's motorways, according to the Government meeting transcripts published on December 23.

Bulgaria's government has approved a draft agreement with Romania for the creation of a joint venture to operate the future " Danube Bridge 2", the second bridge to link the two Balkan states over the Danube river.

Bulgaria's government has approved a draft agreement with Romania for the creation of a joint venture to operate the future " Danube Bridge 2", the second bridge to link the two Balkan states over the Danube river.

The trade with shares from the Bulgarian government 's 33% minority stake in the local unit of Austria's EVN AG started early on December 21.

The Bulgarian government's decision to withdraw from the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project has left Athens and Moscow disappointed, but has been welcomed by people in the Balkan nation's southern Black Sea coast.

The Bulgarian government's decision to withdraw from the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project has left Athens and Moscow disappointed, but has been welcomed by people in the Balkan nation's southern Black Sea coast.

The parliament of Bulgaria through Foreign Affairs and Defense Commission, Anti-corruption and Ethics Committee, and Bilateral Cooperation Group, addressed their wish to the delegates of the Regional Representative Council of Indonesia (DPD RI) who visited Sofia, Bulgaria, December 7-8, 2011, that the Government and the Parliament of Bulgaria really want to plan the visit of the Indonesian President and Minister of Foreign Affairs to Sofia to be implemented.

Bulgaria's government is proposing a total ban on smoking from next June in indoor public places, after earlier attempts failed due to strong opposition from restaurant owners.

Bulgaria will seek to rake in at least BGN 78.4 M from the sale of the government 's 33% minority stake in the local unit of Austria's EVN AG, the local stock exchange said.

Several major transport infrastructure projects in Bulgaria - including the expansion of the Sofia Metro to Sofia International Airport - will be funded with EU money from Operational Program Transport, the government announced.

Germany's government agreed on December 7 2011 to facilitate access of job-seekers from Bulgaria to its labour market, Bulgaria's Labour Ministry said in a statement.

Bulgaria 's financial regulator has greenlighted the listing of the government 's 33% minority stake in the local unit of Austria's EVN AG on the local stock exchange.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has announced officially the government's decision to quit the Burgas-Alexandroupolis project.

Since the 1990s, nationalism has become a major part of politics and society in Bulgaria. Racist violence, too, is becoming more and more a part of everyday life. The state, however, is...

Since the 1990s, nationalism has become a major part of politics and society in Bulgaria. Racist violence, too, is becoming more and more a part of everyday life. The state, however, is...

Since the 1990s, nationalism has become a major part of politics and society in Bulgaria. Racist violence, too, is becoming more and more a part of everyday life. The state, however, is...

German company E.ON has decided to shed its Bulgarian power utility E.ON Bulgaria due to an overregulated market and political attacks by senior government officials, according to Bulgarian comentators.

Faced with a rising wave of street protests, on November 30 Bulgaria's government backtracked on plans to bring a rise in retirement age forward by ten years - a move the the ruling centre-right GERB party had earlier warned is necessary for the country to avoid severe... Faced with a rising wave of street protests, on November 30 Bulgaria's ... (more)

SOFIA, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Protesters on Wednesday blocked roads and border crossings throughout Bulgaria, urging the government to honor its commitments undertaken before the elections in late October. Trade unionists held a national protest rally in front of the country's Parliament, demanding the retirement age be increased after the year 2021 as it has been agreed, rather than from the beginning of 2012 as the ruling GERB party last week proposed. At the same time, grain producers bloc ...

SOFIA, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Bulgaria announced Wednesday it would withdraw three quarters of its 610-member contingent in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. According to a strategy adopted by the government, Bulgaria will pull out its medical team from the city of Herat by the end of 2012 and the country's contingent based in Kabul and Kandahar would return home at the beginning of 2013 and by the end of 2014 respectively. But the country w ...

Bulgaria's government has decided in favor of a major pullout of the Bulgarian troops stationed in Afghanistan, Defense Minister Anyu Angelov announced after Wednesday's Cabinet sitting.

- The Egyptian government is mulling adding Hungary and Bulgaria to its official list of wheat providers, according to official sources. The sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm that a government panel ...

- The Egyptian government is mulling adding Hungary and Bulgaria to its official list of wheat providers, according to official sources. The sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm that a government panel ...

Vasil Velev, Chairman of the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association , has outlined the benefits that the introduction of the e-government would bring.

RESIDENTS of Tsumeb on Friday demonstrated, demanding the immediate halt of copper concentrate imports for refining at the Namibia Custom Smelters (NCS). They also called on the Government to ban the import of copper, especially from Bulgaria.

Finland's government has reportedly reversed its stance on the admission of Bulgaria and Romania to the border-free Schengen Zone, Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat said on November 16 2011, citing the country's Inferior Minister Minister Pivi Rsnen.

Bulgaria launched on November 14 2011 its 14th consecutive public tender envisaging the sale of Government stakes in local companies reports Sofia Echo.The state will place stakes in a total 25 entities on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange , the bulk of which are smaller holdings... Bulgaria launched on November 14 2011 its 14th consecutive public ... (more)

Bulgaria launched on November 14 2011 its 14th consecutive public tender envisaging the sale of Government stakes in local companies.

Macedonia 's government has agreed with Bulgaria's that the still imaginary project for Pan-European Transport Corridor No.

A proposed gold mine in southeastern Bulgaria has been mired in controversy from the beginning, but this year the government provisionally granted the company a go-ahead, overriding the fierce opposition of the community.

Rosen Plevneliev was declared the winner of Bulgaria's presidential election on Monday in an outcome that now gives his party control over all major government posts and will bolster its push for painful economic reforms.

Now, even though not in power, Ahmed Dogan is still fit to play the role of a parallel authority, the journalists from an anti-government newspaper claim.