At a meeting with the Ambassador of Cyprus, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva has called for an immediate expert-level meeting between representatives of the Financial Supervision Commission and the Cypriot Finance Ministry on the case of the bankrupt insurance company "Olympic". Many people have been affected and we still do not have official information from Cyprus about the procedure for paying compensations, Zaharieva said. The ambassador said that he would assist in clarifying the details of the case, which left uncovered more than 200,000 clients of the company in Bulgaria.
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry is posting additional staff at consular missions to cope with the tourist industry’s increasing needs of foreign workers during the summer season, reads the Foreign Ministry’s position regarding an interview given by..
Caretaker Energy Minister Vladimir Malinov is on a working visit to Turkey. Today he will hold talks in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart, Dr Alparslan Bayraktar, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. The meeting is on the initiative of..
On Saturday, minimum temperatures in the country will be between 5 and 10°C, around 5°C in Sofia. The morning will be sunny. In the afternoon it will be cloudy in the mountains, where rain and snow will fall, and sunny in the east. Maximum temperatures..
The Bulgarian Parliament has finally postponed the liberalisation of the energy market for one year, starting from 1 July. The decision was taken with..
Hail storm caused huge damage in the regions of Plovdiv, Haskovo, Stara Zagora and Sliven. No people were injured but crops in many..
Today Bulgaria is hosting a global event of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The results of the organisation's global..
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