Czech businessman Petr Kellner is buying the biggest Bulgarian television group bTV.
Kellner’s PPF Group has announced that it is acquiring bTV’s parent company - Central European Media Enterprises (СМЕ). CME on its part announced that the transaction is for USD 2.1 billion. The acquisition will be concluded by mid-2020. Before that it will have to be approved by the CME’s shareholders’ meeting, the antitrust commissions in the respective countries and by the European Commission. CME is owner of bTV and of the TV groups in the Czech Republic (Nova), in Romania (PRO TV), in Slovakia Markíza) and in Slovenia (POP TV).
A meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Teodora Genchovska, and the Ambassador of the Russian Federation, Eleonora Mitrofanova, was held today, July 1, 2022, before noon, at the insistence of Russia. During the talks, Minister Genchovska..
MPs have passed a motion to extend prison terms and increase fines for various forms of computer crime. These include theft of intellectual and industrial property, infection of an information system with a computer virus, child sexual exploitation..
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The Bulgarian National Assembly has held a closed sitting with outgoing Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and the heads of the specialized..
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