10-09-2010/15:23 Sofia - Transport, Information Technology and Communications Minister Aleksandar Tsvetkov met with Armenian President Serzh Sargsian within the framework of a two-day working visit to Yerevan, Tsvetkov's ministry said Friday. The sides discussed measures for the promotion of bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
10-09-2010/14:43 Sofia - The system for processing of ID papers will be put in place by the end of September, said Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov during Question Time in Parliament on Friday. An annex has been signed between the Interior Ministry and the contractor Siemens to extend the initial time frame by six months.
10-09-2010/12:39 Sofia - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov confered with the visiting Bavarian Landtag delegation, the government information service said Friday. The delegation is paying a two-day visit at the invitation of National Assembly Chair Tsetska Tsacheva and is headed by Landtag President Barbara Stamm.
10-09-2010/11:58 Sofia - The government will extend an additional 65 million leva to the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), Finance Minister Simeon Djankov said during Question Time in Parliament Friday. Djankov was speaking in response to a question of MP Yanaki Stoilov (Coalition for Bulgaria) concerning increasing the budget of health care.
10-09-2010/11:57 Sofia - The optimal forecast for 2011 VAT revenue is 2,900 million leva and 3,900 million leva from excise duties,Customs Agency Director Vanyo Tanov stated at a hearing before the National Assembly Committee on Anti-Corruption,Conflict of Interests and Parliamentary Ethics Thursday.
10-09-2010/10:48 Sofia - Two earthquakes were felt on the territory of Sofia Friday morning. The National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy, and Geography with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences said they were registed at the same time - 10:08 hrs - and had a magnitude of 3.5 and 3.3 on the Richter scale. Both struck on the territory of Sofia.
10-09-2010/09:57 Sofia - A light earthquake with a magnitude of 3.4 on the Richter scale was registered at 3:43 hrs local time on Friday, the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy, and Geography with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences said. The tremor was epicentred some 130 km southwest of Sofia, outside the territory of the country and was not felt in Bulgaria.
10-09-2010/00:10 Sofia - Question Time in Parliament.
10-09-2010/00:10 Sofia - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov confers with Bavarian Landtag President Barbara Stamm who leads a German parliamentary delegation to Bulgaria. The German guests are also scheduled to meet President Georgi Purvanov.
10-09-2010/00:10 Sofia - Labour and Social Policy Minister Totyu Mladenov opens a national meeting entitled, "Childhood for All". The event, to be attended by children without parents, children from the Children's Council with the State Agency for Child Protection, representatives of state institutions, local powers, social partners and NGOs, is within the European Year of Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion.
10-09-2010/00:09 Sofia - Sofia hosts an international conference discussing employment and poverty in Bulgaria.
09-09-2010/18:45 Sofia - Bulgaria's National Assembly and the Bavarian Landtag have almost identical problems and challenges. This was the conclusion drawn Thursday by National Assembly Chairperson Tsetska Tsacheva and visiting here Landtag President Barbara Stamm. She is leading a parliamentary delegation on a two-day visit here at Tsacheva's invitation.
09-09-2010/18:44 Sofia - State-run gas supplier Bulgargaz has proposed that natural gas cheapens by 1.36 per cent in the last quarter of 2010, the company said on Thursday. In August Bulgargaz said that it plans to up the gas price by 3 per cent as of October 1 to adjust it to the pricing factors, changing its outlook later.
09-09-2010/18:43 Varna - Bulgaria may supply products to Moscow using river sea ships, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said here on Thursday. He attended the opening of a newly built Raduga Children's Rehabilitation Camp in the Kamchiya Resort Complex. Such possibilities were discussed during his meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who reportedly approved of the idea.
09-09-2010/18:10 Sofia - There has been an increase of VAT revenues compared to 2009; the Customs Agency budget target for the 2010 revenues is sure to be met, the Agency's Director Vanyo Tanov said on Thursday. He presented the forecasts for the implementation of the Agency's budget before the National Assembly Budget and Finance Committee.
09-09-2010/17:18 Sofia - On Thursday the National Assembly ratified an interim agreement on economic partnership between the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire and the European Community. The document will provide Cote d'Ivoire with better access to the Community market and will promote regional integration, economic cooperation and good management of West Africa.
09-09-2010/16:51 Sofia - Norway would be happy to increase its commodity exchange with Bulgaria, Norwegian Ambassador in Sofia Tove Skarstein told Bulgarian Agriculture and Food Minister Miroslav Naydenov on Thursday, Naydenov's Ministry said. The two expressed their readiness to seek ways to boost two-way trade. They discussed matters related to the implementation of the common EU agricultural policy.
09-09-2010/16:00 Varna, on the Black Sea - The Bulgarian ship Panega had been released by Somali pirates, said Friday Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in the Kamchia seaside resort. In his words, all Bulgarian sailors are well. They are expected to arrive in Bulgaria on September 15 on an aircraft specially committed by the Prime Minister. The ship was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden in May.
09-09-2010/15:59 Varna, on the Black Sea - Some 11,000 Russian children and 3,500 veterans will be accommodated at the Kamchiya resort (on the Black Sea), Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said at the inauguration of the newly built Raduga Children's Rehabilitation Camp Thursday.
09-09-2010/15:59 Ivailovgrad, South Central Bulgaria - Presidents Georgi Purvanov of Bulgaria and Karolos Papoulias of Greece on Thursday opened officially a new crossing on the easternmost section of the two countries' common border between Ivailovgrad and Kiprinos.
09-09-2010/15:48 Strasbourg - The restrictions for access to the labour market still existing in some EU member states for Bulgarian workers are unjustified and the European Commission, in its capacity as guardian of the treaties, should not allow applying of double standards regarding any member-country. This was the opinion voiced by Bulgarian MEPs of the Group of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats with the European Parliament at a debate held at the European Parliament plenary hall in Strasbourg late Wednesday evening. The debate concerned the restrictions imposed on the access of Bulgarian and Romanian workers by ten member states, the press service of the Bulgarian Socialists at EP said.
09-09-2010/15:19 Sofia - Bulgaria has moved up six places from 76th to 70th in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) 2010-2011 of the World Economic Forum (WEF), compared with 2009-2010, the Center for Economic Development (the WEF's official partner in Sofia) said on Thursday. The Index is contained in The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011.
09-09-2010/15:15 Sofia - A minor earthquake with a magnitude of 2.5 on the Richter scale struck near Sofia at 14:29 hrs local time on Thursday, said Nikolai Miloshev, head of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy, and Geography with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
09-09-2010/14:09 Sofia - During the January-July 2010 period the Bulgarian exports to third countries amounted to 6,400 million leva, up 48.6 per cent from the same period a year ago, according to preliminary figures released by the National Statistical Institute on Thursday.
09-09-2010/14:08 Sofia - The 8th International Scientific Conference "Security in South-Eastern Europe" opened at Sofia's InterExpo Center on Thursday.
09-09-2010/14:08 Sofia - A campaign for cost-free neutering, anti-parasite treatment, rabies vaccination, identification marking and registration of outdoor dogs is under way in Sofia's Vrubnitsa borough between September 8 and 24, the City Hall said on Thursday.
09-09-2010/11:47 Sofia - At a hearing on the way the balance brought forward (surplus) of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) at the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) is managed, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov told Parliament on Thursday that an estimated 1,234,700,000 leva were available on the NHIF accounts with the BNB at July 31, 2010. In 2007, the NHIF ran a deficit, which is why the State subsidized it with 339 million leva from the national budget.
09-09-2010/01:46 Sofia - A charity soccer match between the teams of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and MTG CEO Hans Holger. The money raised will be used to build playgrounds for children deprived of parental care.
09-09-2010/01:46 Sofia - Economy, Energy and Tourism Minister Traicho Traikov and his deputy Ivo Marinov meet with Reinhard Petry, Director of the International Policy and EU Projects Department with the European Spas Association.
09-09-2010/01:45 Sofia - An international conference on the European Union 2010 strategy and security in Southeastern Europe opens at Inter Expo Centre in Sofia. defence Minister Anyu Angelov will discuss Bulgaria's defence policy and its role in security of the region. Attending the conference will be the ambassadors of US, UK and Spain, representatives of diplomatic missions and the Representation of the European Commission in Sofia, military and police attaches.
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