Economy
Bulgaria Opens Bids for Struma Highway Lot 4
Bulgaria's Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, Rosen Plevneliev, is attending Friday the opening of the public tender bids for Lot 4 of the Struma Highway....
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BCCI: Zambia Offers Big Opportunities for Bulgarian Business
Bulgaria must seek new markets for its products, and the countries in Southern Africa such as Zambia offer big opportunities, according to officials from the Bulgarian Ch...
Rolling Stone Magazine Fails to Survive in Bulgaria
One of the most popular magazines in the music world, Rolling Stone, has stopped to appear in a Bulgarian language edition less than two years after its launch. Rolling S...
Tangibly More Foreign Tourists Visited Bulgaria in Q2 2011
Data from the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (NSI) is confirming the various reports that Bulgaria's tourism sector is enjoying a very strong summer season in 2...
Real Estate
RGI's Europa Capital Completes Acquisition of 'Mall of Sofia'
Europa Capital LLP, a member of the Rockefeller Group, has completed the acquisition of Mall of Sofia, the first shopping mall in Bulgaria's capital, the company has anno...
Passenger Traffic at Sofia Airport Up by 3% Y/Y in July
Sofia Airport registered a monthly slowdown in passenger traffic growth in July. In July 2011 Sofia Airport serviced a total of 336.5 passengers, up by 3% compared to the...
Economy
Bulgarian Local Wine Sales up 40% H1 2011 Y/Y
The sales of wine on the local market in Bulgaria are up 40% in the first half of 2011, compared to the same period of last year. The data was released Wednesday by the B...
Financial
Greeks, Romanians Rush to Stash Savings in Bulgaria
Bulgarian banks have seen a significant growth in deposits over the last two months thanks to Greek and Romanian nationals, who rush to stash their savings here, official...
'Unknown Sofia' Project Advertises Lesser Known Tourist Attractions
A map with little-known yet interesting places to visit in Sofia will be presented Wednesday to Sofia municipal councilors and the business sector. The colorful leaflet t...
Economy
New Air Traffic Control Tower at Sofia Airport to Be Built in 10 Months
Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski will attend Friday the signing of a contract for the preliminary design and construction of a new control tower at Sofia Air...
Financial
Bulgaria Registers 0.1% GDP Growth Q2 2011 Y/Y
The Gross Domestic Product, GDP, increased by 0.2% in both the Eurozone and the EU during the second quarter of 2011, compared with the previous quarter, according to fla...
Economy
Tickets on Sale for Qatar Airways Sofia Flights
Qatar's national carrier has confirmed it is about to launch flights to and from Sofia in the middle of September and tickets are already on sale. The flights will be lau...
Financial
Bulgarian Revenue Agency Hits on Black Sea Yacht Owners
Bulgarian Revenue Agency, NRA, has launched a probe of 47 yachts at the beach resort towns of St. Vlass and Nessebar on the southern Black Sea coast. The information was...
Economy
Sofia City Hall Overhauls Entire Trolleybus Park
The trolleybus park in the Bulgarian capital Sofia will be replaced nearly 100% in the next year to year and a half. Thirty new trolleys have been purchased with EU fundi...
Infrastructure
Sofia Revamps Public Transport over Launch of 2nd Metro Line
Sofia Municipality is taking a number of measures to revamp the public city transport in order to make a better use of the second line of the Sofia Metro that is to be la...
Financial
Bulgaria to Shift Budget Focus from Security to Education - Finance Minister
Bulgaria's government has been giving too much money for the security sector, and too little for, and that is bound to change in 2012, Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has...
Economy
Bulgarian Govt Makes BGN 12 M by Privatizing Construction Firm
Bulgaria's government is selling "Industrial Construction Holding", a state company, to a local private investor for BGN 12.01 M, the Privatization Agency announced. The...
Financial
Bulgaria Gets Deplorable Amount of FDI in H1 2011
Bulgaria attracted a total of only EUR 7.9 M in foreign direct investment in the first six months of 2011, according to latest data from the Bulgarian National Bank. Comp...
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