The National Revenue Agency has published a list of 64 companies connected with Delyan Peevski, Vasil Bozhkov and Ilko Zhelyazkov who were recently sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act. Meanwhile, Bulgaria’s caretaker Minister of Finance Assen Vassilev told the Bulgarian National Television that if any cabinet members are connected with Bozhkov and Peevski, they will enter the lists of connected persons and will leave the caretaker government.
Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet has already set up a working group to protect state and municipal companies from falling within the scope of sanctions imposed by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
On Friday, the lowest temperatures will be between 6 and 11°C. In Sofia it will be around 8°C. In the morning hours visibility will be reduced in the plains. Before noon in most of the country it will be sunny. In the afternoon,..
At a meeting with acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov, relatives of those killed in accidents once again demanded a faster trial and harsher punishments for those convicted. Parents from the “Angels on the Road”..
One hundred days after the start of its work, the government of Rosen Zhelyazkov enjoys the approval of 19.2% of Bulgarian citizens, while 66% of them express a negative attitude, according to data of sociological agency "Myara"...
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul at 12.49 local time and was felt to varying degrees across Bulgaria, BTA reported, citing the..
The full accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen area is strengthening the European Union's economy significantly. This is stated in a report..
Sofia has met the last criterion for entering the eurozone. After meeting the inflation criterion, the data on the budget deficit for..
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