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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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2007/04/23

Samokov municipality has suspended the construction permits, until further expansion of the infrastructure in the region.

Analogue of the big project “Super Borovets” is under development by the businessman Hristo Kovachky. It will be situated in Mala Tsurkva, Govedartsy and Maljovitsa. General construction plan of the area is now being prepared, and is about to be completed by the end of May.
Joint company “Nadar 2006” was created last year for the purpose of the new project. 50% of the...

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2007/04/23

The construction of the project will take ten years, and will probably be developed in the direction of Maglidzh municipality.

A Detailed structure plan of the project “Ski zone Tryavna municipality” is already completed. Tryavna Municipality aims to examine the opportunities for development of winter tourism in the region. The plan offers the project for the construction of the ski zone to be executed on three stages, by creating four main bodies and several equipments to service it....

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2007/04/21

A completely intact Thracian chariot was unearthed by the Bulgarian archaeologist Vesselin Ignatov on Friday, Darik News reported.

The chariot was found near a burial barrow close to the central Bulgarian town of Nova Zagora. Ignatov and his team have already dated the finding to 2 century BC. The chariot has two wheels with its roof made of heavy bronze in the form of eagle heads and a folding iron chair, where the driver sat. The chariot was aimed to be pulled by three horses.

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2007/04/21

The Cabinet will work on a long-term strategy for the development of Bulgaria’s tourism, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said during the opening of summer season 2007 in Golden Sands resort.
Such strategy should specify what type of tourism destination in Bulgaria trying to be and what should the priorities of the sector be.

Over the past year, Bulgaria saw the visits of more than five million foreign tourists, representing an increase of nearly seven per cent. The revenue from tourism in...

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2007/04/21

At least eight projects for hotel construction in Bulgaria's Hisarya spa resort have already received approval, Hisarya municipality said.
The town is famous with its healing mineral springs, investor.bg reported.

Bulgarian and foreign investors showed their interest in the town. Large plots feature among the most wanted terrains for the construction of hotels, spa centres and smaller vacation houses.

Prices in the centre of the town reached 70 to 80 euro per sq m. The most attractive...

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