On the second day of his official visit to Austria Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev discussed with the Prime Minister of the Federal Province of Lower Austria Erwin Proell the perspectives for bilateral economic cooperation. President Plevneliev and Erwin Proell pointed out that the most promising sectors of bilateral cooperation were machine-building, electronics, electrical engineering, IT technologies and textile industry. Nearly 450 companies from Lower Austria Province have business relations with Bulgarian companies and the Austrian firms are to boost their cooperation with their Bulgarian partners in the future, Premier Proell further said. On Tuesday President Plevneliev met with his Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer who conferred him with the highest state decoration of Austria- The Order of Merit of the Austrian Republic.
Bulgarian Vice President Iliana Iotova has opened the new school year at the Bulgarian Sunday School "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" in Barcelona . She congratulated the students for their diligence in attending classes on weekends after a full week at a..
Today, t he Rozhen Monastery "Nativity of the Theotokos" will celebrate its patron saint's day with a procession with the miraculous icon of "Theotokos – Portaitissa" and a blessing of the sacrificial (kurban) meal. The monastery lost its..
It will be sunny on Sunday with a temporary increase in cloudiness over the eastern parts of the country and the mountains in the afternoon . Daytime highs will range from 25°C and 30°C, for Sofia around 27°C. It will be mostly sunny over the..
From today until September 15, Sofia's Vitosha boulevard and the park in front of the National Palace of Culture are transformed into a huge open-air..
It is 80 years, on 9 September, since the communist coup d'état which put an end to the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Talking about the communist past is..
Over a hundred participants in the voluntary teams of the Bulgarian Red Cross for disaster and crisis action, as well as representatives of the..
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