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) Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:55:46 +0200 comment@bgnewsnet.com webmaster@bgnewsnet.com http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24565 Rosen Plevneliev took oath as president of Bulgaria Thursday and pledged to work for the poorest EU member state to rise to the bloc's medium living standards. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:55:46 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24564 Bulgaria's pro-American Prime Minister Boiko Borisov is souring relations with a major U.S. investor. His government on Tuesday bowed to street protests and imposed a moratorium on Chevron shale gas prospecting in northeastern Bulgaria. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:46:50 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24559 Bulgaria's energy system was under strain as some 3,000 workers in the country's main coal mine went on strike for indefinite time on Sunday over a pay dispute with the management. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:03:05 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24558 President-elect Rosen Plevneliev said Sunday he would work to raise Bulgaria to a medium-developed EU state in 2020 from the bloc's poorhouse now. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:27:29 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24555 Bulgaria's main opposition leader Sergei Stanishev on Saturday ruled out coalition with the centre-right party of current Prime Minister Boiko Borisov after next general elections due in mid-2013. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:28:04 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24552 Thousands of Bulgarians rallied across the country on Saturday to demand the government ban prospecting for shale gas. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:21:42 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24550 President Georgi Parvanov angrily reacted Friday to comments by Prime Minister Boiko Borisov that an order conferred to Vice-President Angel Marin was not deserved. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:32:09 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24542 Bulgaria on Wednesday firmly opposed ideas that a draft agreement on tighter fiscal discipline and economic co-ordination in the EU should entail co-ordination of the different member states' taxation policies. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:53:14 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24541 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:57:43 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24540 Bulgaria's parliament on Wednesday condemned former Communist regime policies which forced the exodus of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Turks from the country in mid-1989. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:17:48 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24538 A close ally of Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borisov quit the Sofia city administration, citing media reports which accused him of corruption and conflict of interests. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:24:44 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24532 The head of Bulgaria's Industrial Association Bozhidar Danev on Monday said soaring corporate debt was threatening the stability of the country's banking system. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:58:35 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24530 Bulgaria's January-November 2011 foreign trade deficit narrowed to leva (BGN) 4.8 billion from BGN6.3 billion in the same period a year earlier, the National Statistics Institute (NSI) reported on Monday. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:14:22 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24529 A total of 167 senior state officials have failed to fully disclose their wealth in their mandatory annual declarations, the Audit Office announced. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:18:36 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24528 Two men have died of cold and millions of people remained without electricity as heavy snowfall paralysed Bulgaria over the weekend, the authorities announced. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:56:23 +0200 http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24524 It has become known that the French journalists from the international epizootic information bureau have information that Georgia is carrying out research on invention of different new viruses on its territory. It's being done under the cover of realizat Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:04:58 +0300