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Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has dismissed the appeal against the Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) decision that re-instated Saudi Arabian Arkad Engineering as the winner in the tender to […]
Eric Rubin, former United States ambassador to Bulgaria, was among those named an honorary citizen of Bulgaria’s capital city on September 17, the annual Day of Sofia. Rubin, a career […]
An investigation has established that claims that technical reasons were why Bulgarian National Radio’s Horizont programme went off air for five hours on September 13 are not true, the Prosecutor’s […]
Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 2.9 per cent inflation in August, unchanged from July, with prices up by 0.1 per cent on a monthly basis, according to data […]
The controversy over the five-hour stoppage of broadcasting of Bulgarian National Radio’s Horizont programme is continuing, with Prime Minister Boiko Borissov claiming on September 16 that the incident was “sabotage […]
More than five million leva (about 2.5 million euro) has been paid so far as financial support for the cleaning and decontamination of private holdings as a step against African […]
Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry has invited bids to supply four propeller-driven training aircraft for the Bulgarian Air Force. The call follows Bulgaria spending more than two billion leva on the acquisition […]
A festival entitled “Serdica is my Rome” is to be held in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on September 21 and 22. The organisers said that it will be “the first […]
Bulgaria’s Traffic Police began on September 16 a week-long operation involving stepped-up checks against the use of mobile phones by motorists, the Interior Ministry said. Continuing until September 22, the […]
September 15 was a happy and historic day for the children of the Bulgarian Jewish community as the country’s first new Jewish school in decades, named for World Jewish Congress […]
