Bulgarian Cabinet appoints new utilities regulator chief
Bulgaria’s acting Cabinet has appointed Deputy Economy Minister Evgenia Haritonova as chairperson of the State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission
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Sofia mayor asks prosecutors to investigate heating utility
Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova has asked police and prosecutors to investigate why the city’s heating utility, Toplofikatsiya Sofia, did not
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Bulgaria’s Vayant announces Lufthansa partnership
Bulgarian IT solutions provider Vayant, which specialises in business-to-business airfare shopping, has become the new technology partner of Lufthansa, the
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Bulgaria records 0.8% economic growth in 2012
Bulgaria’s economy grew by 0.8 per cent last year, the country’s National Statistics Institute (NSI) said on March 6. In
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EU fines Microsoft 561M euro for browser screen fail
The European Commission said on March 6 that it imposed a 561 million euro fine on Microsoft for failing to
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Tourism’s ‘robust’ performance in Europe to continue in 2013, survey says
The tourism industry’s “robust and resilient” performance in 2012 is expected to continue in 2013, according to the results of
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Bulgarian utilities regulator approves lower electricity prices
Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) said on March 5 that it approved the proposed electricity price cuts
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Latvia asks to join euro zone
Latvia has officially asked the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) for an extraordinary convergence report “in order
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Nabucco pipeline signs co-operation memo with Turkey’s TANAP
The consortium behind the planned Nabucco gas pipeline has signed a memorandum of co-operation with the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP), reports
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