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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and MPs from ruling party GERB met on June 15 with representatives of conservation groups to discuss the latest amendments to the Forestry Act, which […]
Lyubomir Pavlov and Ognyan Donev, the two Bulgarian businessmen that own the country’s two top circulation dailies, Trud and 24 Chassa, have been indicted on charges of money laundering. Separately, […]
Odd as it may sound, the seemingly endless economic malaise enveloping Europe has not dimmed the appetite for investment in Bulgaria, a development that the country’s investment agency hopes to […]
Football may be Bulgaria’s most popular sport, but for the past decade and a half, the men’s national volleyball team has had by far the most success. But with good […]
Despite making the issue a priority ever since the current Cabinet took office, the Finance Ministry now appears unlikely to push forward with reform of civil service pensions, news website […]
Three European Parliament committees voted against the Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty Agreement (ACTA) on May 31, only a day after Dutch parliament soundly rejected the treaty. Dutch MPs not only shot down […]
Bulgaria’s abandoned project to build a nuclear power plant at Belene on the Danube River can be profitable for a private investor, but only if the state subsidises construction, maintenance […]
Lovech-based businessman Grisha Ganchev is often mentioned in Bulgarian media as “an emblematic figure of Bulgaria’s transition”. The precise meaning of the phrase is open to interpretation, but it is […]
