The Vice Premier and Minister of Internal Affairs Ivaylo Kalfin and the Minister of Labor and Social policies Emilia Maslarova were accepted by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea. The purpose of the visit of the two ministers is the signing of an agreement for economic cooperation and social security. The Korean premier emphasized that the two agreements will aid the increased interest of Korean business in investment in Bulgaria, but added that this can be expected right after the world financial crisis. още »

From all fields which should be saved urgently because of the financial crisis, the triple coalition chose the construction. “The government has the intention to realize urgently new investment program of 200 million euro, which to be invested in infrastructural projects and thus the whole economy to be stimulated”, announced the prime minister Sergei Stanishev. още »

The seventh national conference on energy efficiency “Implementation of the politics on energy efficiency: use of the national and international opportunities” was opened today at Sofia Sheraton Hotel Balkan, informed Focus agency. At the beginning of the conference a greeting from the minister of economy and energy Peter Dimitrov was read. It is well known, that the energy intensity of the Bulgarian economy is high and the country ranks at one of the last places among the EU member states in terms of efficiency of the energy sources use. още »

Lufthansa Technik AG opened its own repairs facility in Bulgaria through its subsidiary company "Lufthansa technik Sofia". The new company, which is a joint venture between Lufthansa Technik AG (80%) and Bulgarian Aviation Group (20%) is located in Sofia Airport.Lufthansa Technik and Bulgarian Aviation Group invested more than 20 million Euro for modernization of the hangar, docking facilities, instruments and working materials as well as employee training. още »

Central heating will probably increase in price in two consecutive months - December and January. This was announced by the chair of the State commission for energy and water regulation Konstatin Shushulov.A scenario is being considered according to which the price of heating energy and natural gas will be corrected every 3 months, Shushulov said.The price of natural gas increased by 24% on October 1 after a decision by the Commission. още »

The Bulgarian commerce chamber insists that the project law for energy efficiency is not accepted. In a letter by the commerce chamber, signed by its chair Bozhidar Danev, the project law for energy efficiency has been characterized as absolutely unnecessary and retrograde. The paradox is that given the price of petrol, petrol products and heavy fuels is determined by market forces, the price of electric energy is determined administratively by the State commission for water and energy regulation. още »

The Bulgarian stock market stock market started reacting to the financial reports for the nine months. Today's session began and is developing predominantly on a positive territory, with only the SOFIX index being under pressure.Most of the active positions on Tuesday are traded with increases, with the reductions in “Roads holding”, Chimimport and First investment bank weighing down on SOFIX and for a short time the index was under the level at which it opened. още »

This night started the stopping of two of the blast furnaces of the metallurgic enterprise “Kremikovtzi”. The process started with blast furnace 1. It has not been completed yet. With an order of minister Dzhevdet Chakurov a team of experts from the Regional inspection on environment and waters – Sofia and from Environmental executive agency is present at the staged stopping of the enterprise's work. още »

The strong pessimism again gripped Bulgarian stock exchange on Monday. The sales led to lower average levels for most of the traded positions and the indexes sunk with the very start of the trade. The level at which SOFIX closed today was with 3.88% less than the one from the previous session: 526.76. BG40 went down with 4.38% to 143.06 points. The index of the companies investing in real estate BGREIT lost 3. още »