Members of the German-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DBIHK) have handed the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov a list with 101 ideas for legislation amendments.
The list with recommendations to change a total of 24 Bulgarian laws was presented to Borisov Thursday by Bertram Rollmann, President of the German-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Deutsch-Bulgarische Industrie- und Handelskammer) during a working breakfast, which also included Bulgaria’s Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev and German Ambassador to Bulgaria Matthias Hoepfner.
The 101 recommendations are mostly based on a comparison of the legislations in Bulgaria and Germany, and have been described as a response to Borisov call upon the German businessmen to support the realization of crucial reforms in the country….
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The highway connecting Bulgaria’s capital Sofia with the Kalotina border crossing on the Serbian border will be ready by 2015, announced Bozhidar Yotov, head of the Road Infrastructure Agency.
Yotov spoke Thursday after the first meeting of a special working group, during which Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov demanded from several ministries, the road agency, and several municipalities that the highway from Sofia to Kalotina should be constructed before Serbia can build its own section to the Bulgarian border, the extension of the Belgrade-Nis Highway.
The newly-founded working group for “shock” highway construction includes deputy ministers of regional development, transport, environment, agriculture, the head of the Road Infrastructure Agency, the Governors of the Sofia City District and the Sofia District, the Chief Architect of Sofia Petar Dikov, and the mayors of the towns of Slinitsa and Dragoman.
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Aleksey Skurlatov, the soldier who served as the model of Bulgaria’s most famous Soviet Army monument, has received a medal from the Bulgarian President.
Skurlatov is the man whose picture from 1944 was used by Bulgarian sculptors to design the Monument of Alesha in the city of Plovdiv, a monument representing Bulgaria’s gratitude to the Soviet soldiers.
The Red Army veteran, who now resides in the Altai Republic in Central Russia, has been award a medal entitled “65 Years since the Victory over Fascism”….
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If you plan a history trip around Bulgaria, then the Tsarevets fortress is the place to visit.
It is situated in Veliko Tarnovo, a city in the central part of northern Bulgaria which served as the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185 - 1396) and the home of the Bulgarian Tsars from that period.
The fortress Tsarevets is located on the central part of a hill with the same name, where the earliest evidence of human presence dates back from the 2nd millennium BC.
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Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has issued a warning over the strike of truck owners in its southern neighbor, which has starved Greece of fuel.
“The Ministry recommends that all Bulgarians traveling to Greece should fill up their tanks with enough gas in order to be able to reach their destination and to come back,” says a special statement released Thursday.
The Foreign Ministry has made it clear that it did not have any information about Bulgarians stranded in Greece but points out that the truck owners has created “temporary problems” with the supply of fuels in the latter….
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Cleves, a luxury Sofia apartment rentals company, has acquired a brand-new 15-unit development in the Bulgarian capital.
The new property, which was formally presented to the media Wednesday night, is in Cherkovna Str, just to the east of Doctors Gardens. The developer was Prime Property BG REIT.
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Bulgaria has been named the number one beach holiday destination for UK holiday-makers this summer in a brand new ranking released on Thursday.
Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast emerges as the top beach destination this summer, closely followed by North Tunisia, Antalya in Turkey, and Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, according to the study, commissioned by Kelkoo, and conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
The study rated the world’s most popular beach destinations using the latest official statistics to assess the performance of 10 key travel criteria, including: climate, security, local affordability of goods and services, quality of food, the cost of flights and accommodation, tourist attractions, and the exchange rate.
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Pakistan is observing a day of national mourning on Thursday after a plane crashed in hills north of the capital, Islamabad, in the country’s worst-ever air disaster.
An Airbus A321 crashed as it was about to land in the capital Islamabad, killing all 152 people on board.
The domestic flight from the southern city of Karachi was operated by the private Pakistani airline Airblue, which has a good safety record.
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Parts of St. John the Baptist’s relics might have been discovered during archaeological excavations in Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea town of Sozopol, report Bulgarian media.
Archaeologists investigating the Sv….
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By Stephen Glover, the Daily Mail
As Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor, cuddly Vince Cable was the nation’s best-loved politician. In government, he looks testy and grumpy, and evidently hates working with the Tories.
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