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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The reports that I have visited Ahmed Dogan in his mansion and kissed his hand are unfounded rumors, Bulgaria's PM, Boyko Borisov, said Saturday. The Prime Minister spoke in an interview for the TV channel bTV. Borisov, who is also a general, further denied speculation that he owed his general stars to the leader of the ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Ahmed Dogan, pointing...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Bulgaria President Georgi Parvanov has stated that Bulgaria's support for Macedonia joining the EU is not unconditional after speaking to Macedonia's President, Gjorge Ivanov, Parvanov held a telephone conversation with Ivanov on Friday, at the initiative of the Macedonian side, the President's press office reported. Ivanov stated that he was grateful for Bulgaria's consistent position in support of...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, vowed full-fledged support for badly needed reforms at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). Borisov met Wednesday with the BAS Director, Nikola Sabotinov. The meeting comes after a public controversy in which Finance Minister Simeon Djankov and President Georgi Parvanov exchanged offensive remarks. ...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov, has slammed Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, over a controversy between the two regarding state funding for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In an article entitled "The Question Is Not Science or Economy but Science for the Benefit of Economy and Society", which was published on the Presidency website, Parvanov expresses his hopes that the "administrative...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov is facing rising pressure over allegations that the Socialist Party he headed in the late 1990s has received money from Saddam Hussein. The leader of the right-wing party Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) Ivan Kostov presented on Monday to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov a letter, which allegedly proves that President Georgi Parvanov asked the former Iraqi dictator...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov, said Sunday the Sofia Mayor Elections campaign had been lackluster and devoid of real emotion and clash of ideas. Parvanov voted shortly before 10 am saying he cast a vote for an more orderly Sofia with better traffic and public transport. He expressed hope that the extremely low voter turnout during the morning was going to increase significantly by the end of...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has stated that President Georgi Parvanov is planning to set up his own political party. The center-right GERB party leader and Prime Minister Borisov, speaking in Smolyan, said that it is obvious that Parvanov will be working on his new political project over the next two years. "Only the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Bulgaria and Azerbaijan signed two energy cooperation memorandums in Sofia Friday in the presence of the two country’s Presidents, Georgi Parvanov, and Ilham Aliyev. One of the documents was signed by Bulgaria’s Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, and Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Energy and Industry, the other one – by Bulgartransgaz, subsidiary of Bulgaria’s gas monopoly...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov, welcomed Friday in Sofia the newly-elected Bulgarian Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova. “Today you are the symbol of the Bulgarian success,” the President told Bokova, who is not just the first woman and first Eastern European to chair UNESCO but also the highest ranking Bulgarian in a major international organization in all time. Parvanov stressed...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Bulgaria's parliament has unexpectedly started its Friday session with a debate of a bill on medicines and health insurance, postponing the debate of a declaration demanding that the president recall the Bulgarian ambassadors to Turkey and the US. The change was done at the proposal of Lachezar Ivanov, deputy parliamentary speaker. The center-right ruling GERB party, far-right ‘Ataka’,...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Bulgaria and Azerbaijan are expected to sign an agreement for cooperation in the energy field on Friday as President Ilham Aliyev is paying a working visit to Sofia at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Georgi Parvanov. Earlier in the week Bulgaria’s Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, Traicho Traikov, announced that Bulgaria’s state-owned gas operator Bulgartransgaz, a subsidiary...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Irina Bokova, Bulgarian diplomat and new head of UNESCO, is scheduled to confer with President Georgi Parvanov as she pays a visit to her native country. Sofia-born Bokova, who moves to UNESCO from a post as Bulgaria's Ambassador to France, narrowly defeated Faruq Hosni, Egypt’s Minister of Culture, for the UNESCO leadership on September 22 after five rounds of voting. When defeated, Hosni complained...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Bulgaria's parliament is scheduled to debate on Friday a a declaration demanding that President Georgi Parvanov recall the Bulgarian ambassadors to Turkey and the United States. The center-right ruling GERB party, far-right ‘Ataka’, the rightist Blue Coalition and the conservative ‘Law, Order, Justice’ party (RZS) submitted on Wednesday the declaration, which is the first step...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov spoke publicly for the first time on the debate for his impeachment, referring to a "secret coalition" that would soon be revealed. “The secret coalition will come out in the open with the debate about impeachment,” he stated, in a reference to cross-party demands for his impeachment. “I intended not to make any statements, but the game...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The formerly ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party has been hit once again by allegations that it received money from Saddam Hussein in the late 1990s. "There is evidence that the Bulgarian Socialist Party has had dealings with the regime of Saddam Hussein," Bulgaria's former intelligence head Dimo Gyaurov said on Thursday, adding that he has alerted the prosecutors about this several times. Gyaurov...
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