Commercial areas in Varna have increased by over 30% for the first half of 2008. Only by opening Varna Mall in June their size has increased by 33 000 square meters. New stores, which opened in this period, possess over 40 000 square meters total. This constitutes almost one third of the completed commercial areas in the entire country, whose amount reaches 138 000 square meters, "Narodno delo" writes. още »

The approved SAPARD projects are 3509 as their total investment value is 2,8 billion levs. The approved subsidy for them is 1,4 billion levs, BNR announced.The participants in the 15th regular session of the Committee for observation in SAPARD, which takes place twice a year, were informed of this result.The amount of work done by the SAPARD agency and the Ministry of Agriculture in the last months is huge, regarding the control exerted in the application of the programme as well as the strengthening of the administrative capacity, Vice Premier Meglena Plugchieva emphasized. още »

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Nearly two hours after the beginning of the trading session, the indexes of the Bulgarian stock exchange (BSE) are on the negative side. Five minutes to 12am SOFIX decreased with 4.72% to 655.76 points. BG40 lost 2.67 of its value to 166.91 points. BGTR30 is down with 3.89% to 437.84 points. BGREIT fell with 5.36% to 67.14%.There are sales on the positions of Monbat and Chimimport. още »

The visits of electric plants are the newest trend in the tourism field in Italy. After the tours of wine cellars, castles, Roman sightseeings, the curious Italians turned their attention of the places where the man meets the technologies, informs ProntoSofia. A similar practice will be introduced in Bulgaria.Thousands of residents on the Apennines visit structures of the energy production, which are very often part of the dazzling scenery. още »

The preparation of a pilot project for local development of “Strandja” natural park gathered in Tsarevo municipality, Bulgaria the expert mission of foreign and local representatives, informs Expert.bg.Tatjana Rener from Slovenia, Terry O'Reagon from Ireland, experts from the Council of Europe and Peter Miladinov – head of unit in the Ministry of culture are visiting in order to work on a long-term strategy for the development of Strandja including the development of the culture of the reason. още »

The former chief of the Monetary fund Martin Zaimov claimed for money.bg that it was possible the world financial problems to lead to slowing of the economy, but he did not accept the option for a possible financial crisis in Bulgaria. According to Zaimov, the banks could have problems with profitability. Maritn Zaimov explained that in fact the economic power is already in the private sector and not in Bulgarian national bank. още »

Bulgarian banks have reported 1 billion levs profit for the first 8 months of the year. This was announced by the manager of Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) Ivan Iskrov for BNR (Bulgarian National Radio).The manager of the central bank surmised that by the end of the year the profit will reach 1,5 billion levs."The behavior of our banks shows that this will probably not be distributed as a dividend", the manager of BNB announced. още »

Sofia municipality will increase its capital in "Toplofikatsiya" - Sofia with up to 50 million levs. This was announced by the Chair of the Commission on agriculture policy of the Sofia municipal council Danail Kirilov, cited by BNR (Bulgarian National Radio).At the moment the official capital of the company is 107 million levs, as 58% belong to the municipality, while the other 42% - to the Ministry of Economy. още »