Section: Radio Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
Bulgarians receive awards for family business
Bulgarian entrepreneurs Vassil and Alexandra Mirchevi, owners of “VM Finance Group” got the grand prix for “Most outstanding family business in Central and East Europe” given by the Austrian Bank Gutmann. They received two more of the Bank’s awards – “for Charity in Central and East Europe” and for “Best family business in Bulgaria”. The...
President Plevneliev to attend NATO summit in Bucharest
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev will pay a working visit to Bucharest to attend the meeting of heads of states and governments of NATO member countries from Central and Eastern Europe. The attendants in the forum are to discuss the challenges NATO is facing in the context of the changes of the geo-political medium of security. According to...
Bulgaria and Italy coordinate positions on European hot issues
The Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria and Italy Daniel Mitov and Foreign Minister Paolo Gentriloni discussed in Sofia the migration flow towards the EU, the need of differentiation between economic migrants and refugees as well as bilateral relations and energy security in Europe. Furthermore, the two countries coordinated their positions on the hot...
Grigor Dimitrov starts with success in Basel
Bulgaria’s top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov qualified for the second round of the indoors tennis tournament in Basel by winning against Sergei Stahovski, Ukraine by 6:3, 6:4. In this way in 3 matches the two have played in professional tennis, Dimitrov strikes his second success. To obtain a place in the quarterfinals the Bulgarian will...
Wine makers insist on receiving EU financing
Since the beginning of the Russian embargo, the export of Bulgarian wine to Russia has dwindled by 62% and the Bulgarian alcoholic beverage has been replaced with wine produced in Crimea and Abkhazia, Chairman of the National Wine and Vine Chamber Radoslav Radev said. Against the backdrop of this negative trend the Bulgarian wine producers are...
Mostly Russians, Turkish and Ukrainians granted right of Bulgarian residence in 2014
During the past year Bulgaria granted the right of permanent residence to a total of 8795 nationals of non-EU countries. This has been announced by the European Commission, quoting data by Eurostat. Most often, the right of permanent residence in Bulgaria was given to Russians (3307), Turkish (2347), and Ukrainians (598 persons). One third of the...
Go2BalkansForum – joint efforts for a successful tourism product
Bulgaria is often regarded as a “terra incognita” in Europe. At present, itseems to have a less attractive tourist image than during socialism. There is no advertising of the Bulgarian tourism product. Since Bulgaria’s EU accession in 2007 until today the share of European tourists decreasesevery year. Noteverybody abroad is...
2015 – toughest for Bulgarian tourism as of 10 years
The Association of Bulgarian Tour Operators and Tourist Agents declared that 2015 has been so far the heaviest year for Bulgarian tourism as of a decade. There was a 9 percent drop over the first 8 months of the year due to the decreased number of Russian and Ukrainian tourists. At the same time the European markets didn’t see any...
Kubrat Pulev to make a long-awaited return on the professional ring
Bulgaria’s best boxer Kubrat Pulev is to make a long-awaited return on the professional ring with a match against Brazilian athlete George Arias. On October 17, he is to play his first match after the defeat in the heavy weight match against world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine). Arias scored 56 victories (14 knockouts)...
Ivaylo Kalfin: EU should declare its refugee receiving capacity
A day before the Brussels’ held summit of the heads of states and governments, the EC has reminded that the implementation of the quotas for the receiving of 160,000 refugees should begin. The migration subject is the leading topic at the sitting of the European Council. The referendum for Great Britain’s staying within the EU is also...
