The suspended Belene project, which envisaged the construction of a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, was in a deadlock until recently. In 2012 the Bulgarian National Assembly suspended the fulfillment of the project due to political..
This week Bulgaria’s National Electric Company paid EUR 600 million to Russian Atomstroyexport, which manufactured two nuclear reactors for the second nuclear power plant in Belene, a project that was suspended by the country’s National Assembly few..
Bulgaria is already in political crisis and now it is the President’s turn, 24 Chassa daily quotes President Rossen Plevneliev on Friday. Meanwhile, outgoing Premier Boyko Borissov contended that there was no political crisis in the country...
Bulgaria’s outgoing Premier Boyko Borissov handed in the resignation of his cabinet , because in his view a new majority, which would hamper the work of the government, was formed at the Bulgarian National Assembly, Sega daily writes on Thursday...
Bulgaria’s cabinet is to look for an investor for Belene nuclear power plant, or will look for an option to build another nuclear unit at Kozloduy NPP, Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov said on Sunday in Plovdiv (Central South Bulgaria). The life..
Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has announced that the Bulgarian and the Russian side have signed an agreement on the definitive enforcement of the Court of Arbitration ruling on Belene NPP. The Bulgarian National Electric Company (NEC)..
Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov is demanding the withdrawal of the immunity of GERB party MP Delyan Dobrev pending an investigation into the Belene NPP project. Data have been collected of a crime committed by Dobrev in his capacity of..
Bulgaria’s Parliament launched an interim inquiry committee which is to make detailed ispection and analysis of the information and the circumstances around the project for second nuclear power plant in Belene for the period 2006- September 2016. The..
Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova left for Moscow on Thursday to meet with the management of the Russian Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, which, as owner of Atomstroyexport filed a claim against the National Electric Company (NEC) in June as..
Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has returned from Moscow where she took part in a meeting of the joint working group set up in connection with the ruling of the Court of Arbitration on the aborted Belene NPP. “I hope that things will have been..
