Danube Bridge 2 ready for use, official opening June 14
Danube Bridge 2 linking Vidin on the Bulgarian bank to Calafat in Romania is ready for use, construction inspectors have
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Final stretch of Bulgaria’s Sofia-Bourgas Trakiya Motorway ‘to open July 1’
The final stretch of Bulgaria’s Trakiya Motorway, linking capital city Sofia to the Black Sea city of Bourgas via Plovdiv,
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Proposed Oresharski cabinet to be presented to Parliament for vote on May 28
Expectations are that Bulgaria’s next cabinet, of “experts” headed by prime minister-designate Plamen Oresharski, will be presented to Parliament for
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Economy, energy focus in talks between Bulgarian PM Raykov and Italy’s Letta
Talks in Rome between Bulgarian Prime Minister Marin Raykov and his Italian counterpart Enrico Letta focused entirely on economic matters,
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Flight from Leipzig skids off runway at Bulgaria’s Varna Airport
An Air Via aircraft, a charter flight from Leipzig with 172 passengers aboard, left the runway at Varna Airport, Northeastern
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Socialist nominee Oresharski handed mandate to form next Bulgarian government
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev handed on May 23 the mandate to form the next cabinet to socialist prime minister-designate Plamen
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Bulgaria’s socialists ask President to halt appointment of ambassadors
The Bulgarian Socialist Party, which ran second in the May parliamentary elections but which by default will be forming the
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Bulgaria’s GERB returns mandate to form government
GERB leader Boiko Borissov has returned the mandate to form Bulgaria’s next government on May 23, once again slamming his
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Radoslav Yankoulov appointed new director of Bulgarian National Radio
Bulgaria’s Council on Electronic Media (CEM) voted on May 23 to appoint Radoslav Yankulov as the new director general of
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