http://www.bgnewsnet.com/ The latest bulgarian news online in English. The shortest cut to the heart of the Balkans. Section: Bulgaria. en Copyright 2002-2004, Bulgarian News Network (BNN) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:18:19 +0300 comment@bgnewsnet.com webmaster@bgnewsnet.com http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24524 France's utility operators Gaz de France and Dalkia are interested in the forthcoming privatisation of Sofia's steam heating company "Toplofikatsiya", minister of industry Traicho Traikov said Tuesday. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:04:58 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24523 The Union of Judges in Bulgaria on Tuesday issued a statement demanding the Supreme Judicial Council to expell three of its members, which have been implicated in corruption. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:50:40 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24518 Bulgaria's economy will contract by 2% next year compared to a 6.3% contraction this year, finance minister Simeon Djankov said as quoted by the media on Monday. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:14:57 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24517 Support for Bulgaria's new centre-right prime minister Boiko Borisov has risen by 3.7% on the month to 50% September, Gallup reported Monday. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:36:36 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24510 Bulgaria's budget deficit contracted to leva (BGN) 105 million in August from BGN 565 million in July due to belt-tightening measures enforced by the new government, finance minister Simeon Djankov said Tuesady. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:10:58 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24509 Former agriculture minister Valeri Tsvetanov was handed Tuesday charges of abuse of office because of signing 15 swaps of state-owned forests for private land, which allegedly inflicted losses to the state budget. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:42:26 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24508 President Georgi Parvanov on Tuesday sharply criticised plans by new Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to revise three multi-billion euro projects that Russia wants to build in Bulgaria. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:29:55 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24504 Bulgaria will charge three former ministers with mismanagement and mishandling public procurement, interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said Thursday. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:35:20 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24503 Bulgaria's minister of finance Simeon Djankov expects the country to emerge from the economic crisis next April and is planning to cut its 20% flat-rate value added tax (VAT) to 16% between 2011 and 2013. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:00:50 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24502 Bulgaria expects to reverse current recession and be back to economic growth in 2011, a finance ministry forecast said Wednesday. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:20:36 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24501 Bulgaria will fine the leader of its ethnic Turkish party Ahmed Dogan with the equivalent of EUR 22,000 because of excessive absence from his workplace for the past four years - of a lawmaker in the country's parliament, the daily 24 Chasa reported Wednes Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:09:30 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24500 Struggling to bridge a looming EUR 1 billion budget gap, Bulgaria's Cabinet announced Tuesday it was planning to close eight government agencies and transform them into directorates within the respective ministries. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:23:18 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24498 A bomb blast killed a 29 year old woman and her 5 year-old son in the southwestern Bulgarian town of Razlog on Tuesday, state TV reported. Medics are struggling to save the life of the woman's other two year-old son, the report said. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:22:58 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24499 Former ministers of defense Nikolai Svinarov and Veselin Bliznakov will be charged of causing a leva (BGN) 37 million loss to the budget by swapping a former military airbase near Sofia for appartments in the capital, mediapool.bg reported Tuesday. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:53:06 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24497 Bulgarian prosecutors will look into a leva (BGN) 44 million repair of the headquarters of the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, state TV said. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:44:13 +0300 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24496 Police seized a cache of EUR 60,000, while searching the home of Bulgaria's parliament chief secretary Ognyan Avramov, the daily Trud reported Thursday. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:20:02 +0300