Bulgaria

The Bulgarian tourist industry must be a flagman of local winemaking, according to Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev. The Head of State met Tuesday, on the day of the traditional Bulgarian celebration - the feast of St. Trifon Zarezan, the patron of vine growing and wine producing, with representatives of 20 winemaking companies. ...  

Four cars have been set on fire in Bulgaria's southern city of Yambol and one in the capital Sofia Monday into Tuesday. The call for burning automobiles in Yambol has been placed on the emergency 112 hotline – all have been parked in front of the same apartment building and 3 had Yambol title plates, while one was from the Black Sea city of Varna. A Volkswagen Passat was set on fire in Sofia in the "Fondovi Zhilishta" district, the Sofia...  

The traffic of freight trucks in Bulgaria will be suspended in the afternoons of official holidays and days off, announced Bulgarian Minister of Transport Ivaylo Moskovski. The ban will be valid for the remainder of 2012 and will supend all heavy freight truck traffic from Bulgarian roads between 4 pm and 10 pm, including the day before the holiday, and the last official day off. The move is implemented to ease the transportation of...  

The Regional Director for Northeastern Bulgaria of the Executive Agency for Fishery and Aquacultures (IARA) at the Bulgarian Agriculture Ministry, Sashko Grudev, had been surprisingly dismissed from his post. The news was reported by the Bulgarian "Dnevnik" daily, citing its own sources. Grudev held the post for just half year, after being appointed in August 2011 as replacement of predecessor, Prodan Prodanov. ...  

A battle is raging and a bickering is taking place in the Bulgarian left-wing Socialist party on the backdrop of huge problems with the polar temperatures and deadly floods. As soon as he left office, after two terms as President, Georgi Parvanov, former leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, started articulating new political ambitions. His chair's seat at the President's office still warm, he began rounds of TV channels and other media to...  

Bulgaria's new President, Rosen Plevneliev, has vowed to tame the "war" between the police and judiciary. Plevneliev made the statement when commenting on the European Commission's interim report on Bulgaria, which was once again highly critical of the judicial system in the country and the progress in the fight against corruption and organized crime. The Head of State explained he has scheduled a number of meetings with the involved parties...  

Bulgaria's Minister of Economy and Energy, Traicho Traikov, is presenting Tuesday the official position of his institution on the controversial international Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA. It emerged Monday that the government will sign ACTA with reservations regarding spying on internet users or will withdraw its support entirely. Legal experts have advised that Bulgaria will not endure serious consequences if it gives up on the...  

There are 600 potentially unsafe dams in Bulgaria, according to data of the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, made public several days after a Bulgarian dam burst and flooder several villages killing 10 people. This makes about one-fifth of the some 3 000 water reservoir dams all over Bulgaria, government data shows; each of the 27 Bulgarian districts is said to have about 20 potentially unsafe dams. "The results from an all-out...  

Bulgaria's Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism Traicho Traikov is going to participate in the opening of the European Ski Cup contest in the southern mountain resort of Pamporovo, the Economy Ministry announced. Traikov, who is an ardent skier himself, will help open the contest together with Bulgaria's Sports Minister Svilen Neykov, at 7 pm on Saturday, February 11, 2012, before the Perelik Plaza Hotel in Parmporovo. A total of 120 top...  

Nine researches from Bulgaria's 20th Antarctic Expedition have managed to reach South America alive and well after suffering tremendous setbacks on their way back, announced Nikola Petkov, head of the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute. Petkov has revealed that on Friday, after waiting for two days for a calmer ocean and weather, the crew of the Hesperides, Spain's main Antarctic support vessel, decided to pick up the nine Bulgarian scientists...  

The Bulgarian section of the Danube River completely froze over during the course of Friday night into Saturday. The data was reported by the Bulgarian Agency for Study and Maintenance of the Danube River. Saturday morning, the ice cover at the eastern Bulgarian Danube port of Silistra was 100% - the total freeze includes a 11-km-long section, from kilometer 386 to kilometer 375. ...  

BLAGOEVGRAD, Bulgaria (AP) - Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria on Friday observed a holiday traditionally associated here with bees and honey. It was the Day of St. Haralambos, a patron saint of beekeepers, who also is known as "the lord of all ...  

On Monday, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov vowed that Bulgaria would comply with EU minimum standards for keeping egg laying hens by April 2012. He had to vow something, because in end-January, the European Commission launched infringement procedures against 13 EU member states, including Bulgaria, over their failure to implement EU legislation concerning the welfare of laying hens. The compliance deadline Naydenov faces is end-May...  

Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev supports regulation of small credit lines, but has reservations about administrative regulation of bank interest rates. Plevneliev made the comment during a meeting with the Governing Board of the Central Bank, BNB, which was part of his agenda to get acquainted with different institutions at the start of the new term. Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister, and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, just announced...  

The Bulgarian community in the Netherlands is getting ready to stage a protest rally against the website set up by the Dutch far-right Freedom Party of Geert Wilders. The news was reported Tuesday by the Bulgarian TV channel Nova TV. The protest is scheduled for 11 am on February 21 in front of the building of the Parliament in The Hague. ...