Bulgaria’s Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism has organized Bulgaria’s participation at this year’s “Ferie for Alle” (Vacation for Everyone) tourism fair in Herning, Denmark.
The fair will take place between February 24 and February 26. Bulgaria’s 24-square meter pavilion will present the country as a year-round tourists destination, with sea, cultural, Spa and golf tourism in the focus.
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For a fourth day in a row, long queues of freight vehicles have been amassing on both sides of the Danube Bridge.
The congestion is due to the introduction of a new procedure in Romania for processing documents of vehicles weighing over 10 tons, which has been in force since Monday, Bulgarian border police reported, as cited by the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).
The new procedure extends processing time per vehicle by 10 minutes, meaning that an estimated 15 freight vehicles pass the Giurgiu point per hour.
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In the fourth quarter of 2011, 844.3 thousand Bulgarian residents1 travelled to the country or abroad, preliminary data of the National Statistics Institute (NSI), released Thursday, shows.
The total number of persons who travelled with private purpose decreased by 9….
In 2011, the trade turnover between Germany and Bulgaria has reached EUR 4.5 B.
This is a 14% increase, compared to the previous year – 2010.
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Georgi Harizanov, the notorious former Chair of the Board of Directors of Bulgaria’s Irrigation Systems, is not an important official, Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev reckons.
“Who is Mr.Harizanov?” Velchev rhetorically asked on Thursday, stating that the crime he committed 10 years ago should not be made into a national problem.
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Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has declared that Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov will not be leaving the club this summer.
“He’s fit and he’ll be here next year,” Ferguson told reporters, as cited by ESPN.
As Wayne Rooney is out of Thursday’s Europa League tie with Ajax due to a sore throat, Berbatov may get an opportunity to return in attack for the Red Devils in their Thursday Europa League encounter with Ajax.
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Bulgaria will open an honorary consulate in Reykjavik, it has been announced.
Sigridur Ingvarsdottir, who is President of the Caritas world charity organization since 1993, will head the consulate, the Bulgarian government has informed.
Ingvarsdottir has graduated in political science from the University in Iceland in 1984….
Swedish Crown Princess Victoria gave birth to her first child, a girl, her husband Prince Daniel said Thursday.
The baby is be second-in-line to the throne after Victoria.
Prince Daniel told reporters he was overwhelmed with emotions, adding that Victoria and the baby were doing “very well….
Bulgaria’s former President, Georgi Parvanov, and Vice President, Angel Marin, have called their first conference since their last term in office ended in January.
On Thursday, Parvanov and Marin are expected to discuss the decree scandal that recently emerged involving Marin’s potential illegitimacy as Vice President and his pardoning of felons.
It was recently revealed that Parvanov failed to issue a decree for Marin’s second term appointment back in 2006.
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Sergey Stanishev, former Bulgarian PM and current interim President of the Party of European Socialists, has declared he has not given up fighting to stay in charge of Bulgaria’s left-wingers.
Despite rumors that he may voluntarily step aside as leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Stanishev said on Wednesday that he would definitely stay in charge until the party’s congress in May, when he will run for a new term.
Stanishev’s main enemy is former President Georgi Parvanov (2002-2012) who made an expected comeback to BSP after his second term in office ended in January….