Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) has mastered the skill of blaming thers for their own faults, Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov, declared Saturday. The Prime Minister spoke in an interview for the TV channel bTV. When asked about the so-called "Stoyan Sariiski" scandal, Borisov was firm the case is slander, and an attempt to discredit him. ...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Bulgaria's Environment Ministry is preparing for defense against EC criticism over waste disposal in the European Communities Court case to be initiated by the Commission. This was stated Sunday by Bulgaria's Environment Minister, Nona Karadzhova, in an interview for the National Radio after on Friday the EC announced it would file a suit against Bulgaria as a last stage of its infringement procedure...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister, Rumiana Jeleva, has left for an official visit to the USA, where is she is going to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday, November 23. Jeleva is going to invite US energy companies to invest in the large-scale energy projects in Bulgaria, including the Belene Nuclear Power Plant, and is going to inform Clinton about the progress of the fight against corruption...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dzheihan Ibryamov is the new Chair of the youth organization of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS). Ibryamov, who is the Executive Director of the "Tolerance" Union, takes the lead of the DPS youth organization after the 3-year term of Korman Ismailov. The new Chair was elected at the Fifth National Conference of the DPS youth organization, held Saturday...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
The fifth National Conference of the youth organization of the Bulgarian ethnic Turkish party Movement for Right s and Freedoms (DPS) is being held Saturday in Sofia. The conference takes place at the National Palace of Culture and its official guests include the party leader, Ahmed Dogan, the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, Hristo Biserov, and other high-ranking party members. The current leader...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Environment, and the Sofia Municipality have send a letter to the EC in response to its announcement it was starting a trial against the country over garbage disposal in Sofia. The Bulgarian institutions have expressed their disagreement with the Commission's conclusion that the system for processing waste in the capital Sofia does not meet the requirements...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Two people were buried Thursday in Sofia when a building in the so-called "Sugar Factory" complex collapsed. The incident happened after two Roma men entered the building to look for scrap, according to a Darik radio report. The Civil Defense informs that rescue teams, including experts from the Bulgarian Red Cross and a canine unit, have been immediately dispatched to the location upon receiving...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Bulgarian PM Boris Borisov has undertaken to renew the investigation into property managed by the ethnic Turkish party (DPS), or rather its leader Ahmed Dogan. This has been announced on Thursday in the Bulgarian parliament by Ivan Kostov, leader of the Democrats for Strong Bulgaria party (DSB), following a meeting with the Prime Minister to warn him about the properties. The investigation will probe...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Deepining cooperation on international security, and assisting in Bulgaria's military modernization are the top priorities of the new US Ambassador to Sofia, James Warlick. Warlick spoke Wednesday during the official hearing before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The Committee is to approve Warlick's official nomination by President Obama to become Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria....
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From The National Post, Canada Sofia Bulgaria can pass the Czech Republic as Eastern Europe's most lucrative solar energy market if the government removes legal pitfalls blocking investment in the country's strong sun potential, experts say. Investors are looking for new opportunities in central and southeastern Europe after Spain and Germany, the global industry leaders in photovoltaics (PV) that...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
For the first time in Bulgaria's history a former Member of the Parliament has been convicted for insulting a colleague. The information was reported by the press center of the Sofia District Court Thursday. The unprecedented guilty verdict is for the former MP from the National Movement of Stability and Prosperity (NMSP) party, Olimpi Katev, who used rude qualifications in addressing the Member of...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Sergey Ignatov has been approved by the Bulgaria Parliament to become Bulgaria's new Education, Youth and Science Minister. Finance Minister Simeon Djankov presented Ignatov's credentials to Parliament and he was sworn in soon after. The new appointment comes after Education Minister Yordanka Fandakova was elected new mayor of the capital Sofia in a landslide on Sunday, replacing the former mayor and...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A 15-year-old youth was stabbed with a knife in a fight between four youths of Bulgarian origin and four of Roma origin. All are pupils either at the Professional High School for Tourism or a local school in Samokov, a town some 60 kms south east of the capital Sofia. According to the Samokov police, the incident occurred Wednesday morning between the two schools which are situated across the street...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Energy security is expected to top the agenda of the meeting of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Rumiana Jeleva and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton next week. According to a statement of the US Embassy in Sofia, transparency in energy contracts and diversity of supply as key points to Bulgaria's energy strategy be matters of the talks. Another major issue on agenda to be discussed by Jeleva and Clinton...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The illegal drugs market in Bulgaria's capital Sofia does not have a single boss at the moment after the police made a number of recent arrests according to the Sofia Interior Ministry Chief, Valery Yordanov. Due to the arrests there is now a vacuum in Sofia with a struggle for new territory and influence set to start according to Yordanov, cited by Darik Radio. He continued, "As we have made...
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