35 'couples' Bulgarian and Russian cities have established working collaboration, and among 70 cities in common there are signed similar contracts during the last 10 years. That was announced during the 5th meeting of the fraternized cities between Bulgaria and Russia. Russia is not among the Top 10 investors in Bulgaria and the tourists' interest toward our country is far from the level of 17 years ago. още »

More than 870 people had registered for participation in the biggest technical conference of Microsoft Bulgaria for the current year - Days of Microsoft '08, the organizers informed. The event will take place on April 24-25 in Inter Expo Centre in Sofia. Main accent in the conference program will be placed on the new technologies.Extreme interest was shown to the lectures in the sessions ‘Business decisions and communications' and ‘Elaborators'. още »

Bulgaria is the only Eastern European country entered in the classification for preferred by the Germans tourism destinations. Their favorites are Spain and Mallorca. This was announced in the analyze agency ‘GIATA-Ranking', informed from local Union of Investors in Tourism.According to the agency Bulgaria ranks 9th. Bulgaria has improved its factor from 1. още »

Three foreign and two Bulgarian companies showed interest to participate in open auction for Bulgaria's ‘Bobov Dol' coal-fired power plant (Western Bulgaria), local privatisation agency informed, quoted by Reuters. The foreign firms are: Belgium's ‘Electrabel', Greek companies ‘Damco Energy' and ‘Sencap', a joint venture of Public Power Corp. and U. още »

Representatives of Lakshmi Mittal, owner of one of the biggest companies in the world for steel production - “Arcelor Mittal” have talks this morning with the Bulgarian minister of economy and energy Peter Dimitrov. The eldest brother in the Mittal family is among the candidates for the purchase of 71% of Kremikovtzi enterprise. The Indian newspaper The Times of India wrote that Lakshmi Mittal had offered 100M EUR for the Bulgarian steel enterprise and bearing the debts. още »

Bulgaria's current account deficit was 1.29 billion EUR ($2.04 billion) or 3.9 percent of annual GDP at the end of February, compared with 1.11 billion EUR and 3.9 percent of GDP a year ago, data showed on Tuesday. The Socialist-led government sees the external shortfall rising to 22 percent of gross domestic product this year, after it hit 21.5 percent in 2007 due to strong imports of both consumer and industry goods. още »

Today, 15 April, an operation for pre-term acquittal of the rest of the debt under credit agreement between Bulgaria and the Japanese bank for international cooperation (JBIC) under FESAL II loan (Second loan for restructuring of the financial sector) which is worth JPY 4 579 678 746.00, including the due interests, was implemeted, informed the ministry of finance. още »

Tsarevo seaside town (South - Eastern Bulgaria) occurred to be extremely interesting destination for the thousands involved in the tourism branch. This was announced at the international tourism expo in Minsk, that we informed you about last week.The interest towards local Black Sea coast was high, Bulgarian participants shared.Local tour agents met there with over 20 tourism agencies from Belarus. още »

90, 000 tourists from Ireland had arrived last year in Bulgaria and their amount I expected to double during this tourist season. That was announced by the Irish ambassador Jeffrey Keating by his visit in Varna. Bulgaria and Ireland have very good opportunities for academic exchange; in this connection the ambassador will meet in Varna the directions of Economical and Medicine Universities to achieve concrete contracts. още »

още »