News April, 2007

2007/04/25

Bulgaria’s economy is amongst the ones developing fastest, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator Kemal Dervis said.
On April 24 Dervis gave a lecture to students in Sofia University on the topic of social and economic challenges that new EU member states face.
Over the past 15 years Bulgaria achieved significant progress, Dervis said. Some of the successful projects the country managed to carry out are Beautiful Bulgaria and some initiatives from UNDP’s Jobs...

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2007/04/24

Around 150 000 people visit the spa and balneological centres in Bulgaria every year, the vice chairman of Bulgaria's State Tourism Agency said on Monday.

The bigger number of them are Bulgarians and Bulgarian citizens living abroad, Stanislav Novakov added.

There are more than 800 mineral springs in Bulgaria and 90% of them have strong healing qualities and effect. The sad news is that only 5% of them are used for the purpose, Novakov said.

In order to promote the spa tourism, the...

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2007/04/23

Various events in Bulgaria commemorated the Earth Day on April 22.
In Sofia ecologists and nature-lovers planted trees in the Vistosha Mountain region.

Veliko Turnovo’s Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Water organised various competitions and discussions dedicate to environment protection and refuse problems.

Varna ecologists carried out a rally against climate changes, Focus news agency reported. Refuse problems and uncontrolled constriction were the most serious environmental...

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2007/04/23

The long-expected construction of Danube Bridge 2 will probably start on 13th of May. This was announced yesterday by the Mayor of Vidin Dr. Ivan Tsenov. The former and present coordinators of the Stability Pact in Southeast Europe – Bodo Hombach and Erhard Busek - are invited to the ceremony.

On Tuesday the Mayor of Vidin handed the writ of possession license documents for the building site to the Spanish company FCC Construction and the consortium between the French company Ingerop and the...

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2007/04/23

The Foreign Ministers of the countries members of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) organization will sign a treaty for the building of a highway around the sea.

The cooperation agreement allowing the highway's construction has been signed yesterday in Belgrade, ITAR-TASS has reported.

Once built, the highway will be shaped like a ring around the Black Sea, connecting all the countries in the region.

BSEC was created in 1992 by eleven countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan,...

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