Bulgarian Business and Investment News

Economy

5 June 2012

Bulgaria Expects Wheat Harvest of 3.8 M Tons in 2012

Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov has said that he expects a wheat harvest of around 3.8-3.9 million tons. Speaking Tuesday in the southern town of Sadovo,...

Economy

4 June 2012

All Bulgarian Poultry Farms Meet EC Welfare Standards

Bulgaria's Minister of Agriculture and Food, Miroslav Naydenov, has announced that the country has fulfilled all requirements of the European Commission (EC) regarding la...

Economy

4 June 2012

Private Investor to Salvage Bulgaria's Flopped Nuclear Project

A private investor could possibly purchase by the end of 2012 the abandoned project to build a second Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, in the Bulgarian Danube town of Belene, an...

Interesting Facts

1 June 2012

Full Smoking Ban Effective in Bulgaria

The full smoking ban in Bulgaria became effective on Friday, June 1, at midnight. In April, after heated debates, Bulgaria's Parliament passed on first reading a bill ban...

Interesting Facts

21 May 2012

Moderate earthquake rattles Bulgaria

Moderate earthquake rattles Bulgaria A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Bulgaria on Tuesday, about 14 miles outside the capital of Sofia, the U.S. Geological Survey said....

Investments

12 May 2012

Bulgaria has secured a one-year extension on Belene loan

Bulgaria has secured a one-year extension to repay the 250 million euro bridge loan arranged by BNP Paribas to fund preliminary work on the planned Belene nuclear power p...

Interesting Facts

7 May 2012

Tourism: Bulgaria to spend 300M leva on restoring castles, ancient sites

Bulgaria is to spend about 300 million leva (about 150 million euro) in European Union funds over the next two years restoring 11 castles and a large number of ancient si...

19 February 2012

Bulgarian Watchdog Empowered against 'Significant Market Power'

Bulgarian companies will be monitored for and fined in cases of abuse of "significant market power," according to draft amendments to the Competition Protection Act. The...

Infrastructure

14 February 2012

Bulgaria becomes second state to impose ban on shale-gas exploration

Shukri Hussein was only 23 when he first bought some land, with a friend, to start a farm at Praventsi, a village close to Novi Pazar, in north-east Bulgaria. Ten years l...

Politics

23 January 2012

Salary of Members of the Government

Members of the Parlament receive at least 18 000 lv ( 9 000 euro) salary per month