Bulgaria’s prime minister has demanded for a check of contracts, signed during the term of the previous government without secured financing.
In the words of Boyko Borisov the contracts, signed in the period 2007-2009 by the Socialist-led cabinet of Sergey Stanishev, are the major reason for the delay in payments from the state to the business, the press office of the prime minister said in an statement.
The check will also include annexes to contracts, won in public procurement tenders, which obliges the state to pay more than the bid of the winner, such as the contract for the construction of Lyulin highway, whose costs increased more than three times over a period of five years….

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There are no reports of Bulgarian nationals injured in the 5,0 magnitude earthquake, which was registered Wednesday afternoon in Kosovo, Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry announced, citing information from the country’s embassy in Pristina.
The building of the embassy has not suffered any damages, all its officials and the members of their families are safe and sound, the ministry said.
The epicenter of the tremor was registered at 46 kilometers West of Pristina, 26 kilometers Southwest of Kosovska Mitrovica and 220 kilometers West of Sofia.
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Romania’s credit rating outlook was raised to stable from negative at Standard & Poor’s after the International Monetary Fund resumed a bailout loan to the country and the government passed an austerity budget.
It affirmed its ‘BB+/B’ long- and short-term foreign currency sovereign credit ratings and its ‘BBB-/A-3′ long- and short-term local currency sovereign credit ratings on the country.
The EU’s second poorest country, which aims to sell euro-denominated bonds in the next week, is rated below Bulgaria, its neighbor, and in line with Azerbaijan and Montenegro.
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In January 2010 the construction production in Bulgaria is down 31% year on year, data published by the National Statistics Institute (NSI) reveals.
The reduction is explained by the crisis in building construction - over 38% less compared to January 2009.
In the infrastructure construction, the decrease is 12% year on year, which according to NSI experts, is a sign building contractors are redirecting their attention….

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Bulgaria commemorated the 67th anniversary of the salvation of Bulgarian Jews and the 65th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust on March 10 with a ceremony at the memorial by the National Assembly.
“The salvation of Bulgarian Jews, which began with the participation of MPs and was supported by members of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, as well as of hundreds and thousands of honest Bulgarian citizens, was a peak achievement of the civic society,” Parliamentary speaker Tsetska Tsacheva said.
Even though Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany in World War II, 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were not deported to the Nazi death camps in 1943 thanks to mass civil protests, active stance by 43 Bulgarian MPs, and Tsar Boris III’s resistance to Hitler’s demands for deportation.
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A 5,0 magnitude on the Richter scale was registered Wednesday afternoon in Kosovo, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center announced.
The epicenter is 46 kilometers West of Pristina, 26 kilometers Southwest of Kosovska Mitrovica and 220 kilometers West of Sofia.
The earthquake was felt lightly in the Bulgarian capital but there is no information about casualties or material damage.
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? special panel, investigating Bulgaria’s communist-era police files, has exposed more than eighty officials from the interior ministry as state security agents and collaborators.
The check has covered people, occupying the top posts in the department - chief secretaries, general directors, deputy general directors, directors, etc.
The blacklist of former state security agents and collaborators already features Socialist President Georgi Parvanov, MPs, former constitutional judges, supreme magistrates, investigators, members of parliament, prominent and well-known former and current Bulgarian journalists.
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The nomination of Mayor of the central city of Gabrovo, Tomislav Donchev, for Minister without Portfolio in Charge of the EU Funds moved one step forward Wednesday.
The Council of Ministers discussed Donchev’s possible appointment and decided to make the nomination official a week from now.
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, put Donchev’s candidature on the table during the March 5 parliamentary control, pending the approval of the European Commission….

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