Section: Bulgaria
BGN 5.8 million Have Been Spent by the Bulgarian MFA on Projects Abroad
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs spent BGN 5.8 million on the financing of 67 development projects abroad. The biggest aid is for Serbia and Northern Macedonia, BGNES reported. For comparison, BGN 4.96 million was spent in 2017, BGN 4.6 million in 2016, and BGN 3.5 million in 2015. “The figures undoubtedly testify to a successful increase in...
UN: Human Rights Around the World are in Retreat
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern at rising xenophobia, racism and intolerance, and warned that human rights are losing ground in the world, the Associated Press reported. At the opening of the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Guterres alarmed that civil society collapsed and journalists and...
Opinions of economists and representatives of government differ when asked if economic crisis was soon to be expected
Are we expecting a new global crisis – economic, debt, or financial one and how would the global threat affect this country? Yesterday, at a round table organized by the Higher School of Insurance and Finance, economists, businessmen and representatives of the government were searching for an answer to these questions but opinions differed...
Hamlet quote sounds in 32 languages in Plovdiv
“To be or not to be – that is the question” is a quote of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays Hamlet. It will sound in 32 languages in the Small Basilica in Plovdiv on occasion of the International Mother Language Day marked on February 21. The works of the English dramatist were chosen for this event, because in 2019 we mark his birth...
Bulgaria calls on Ukraine to guarantee the rights of minorities
We are sending clear message in support of the independence, the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Ukraine. We also support the diplomatic efforts towards a sustainable and peaceful settlement of the conflict in the eastern part of this country, Bulgaria’s Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva who...
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Will Take Part in Today’s Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva is to represent Bulgaria at today’s Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. The Council will be discussing events in Syria and Venezuela, as well as the situation in Ukraine, with a focus on the upcoming elections in the country. …read more Source:...
Ekaterina Zaharieva to take part in today’s Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva is to represent Bulgaria at today’s Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. The Council will be discussing events in Syria and Venezuela, as well as the situation in Ukraine, with a focus on the upcoming elections in the country. …read more Source: Radio...
New regulation of business with automobiles in Bulgaria underway
The Bulgarian labor unions have been dealing with the topic related to gray economy, informal employment and non-registered jobs for a long time. One day ago one of Bulgaria’s biggest syndicates the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) presented a year project to combat gray economy mainly in four sectors: trade and...
Bulgaria’s programmers fourth in DataArt ranking
Bulgaria has advanced from the fifth to the fourth position in this year’s ranking of programmers demonstrating widest diversity of knowledge and interests in various technologies made by the software development company DataArt. The statistics covers over 15,000 participants from 74 countries. Bulgaria ranks after Ukraine, Poland and...
US Launches Campaign Against “Turkish Stream”
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during their tour to European countries next week, will call on them to give up their support for the Turkish Stream project, a senior State Department official said,quoted by Econ.bg Pompeo will visit Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Belgium and Iceland on 11-15 February. “In Hungary we will continue to insist...
