Bulgaria

The Bulgarian police have started a special operation aiming to establish the location of people, declared for national and international inquiry. The operation was executed around the Bulgarian town of Polski Trambesh Friday. The police have checked more than 100 addresses....

The chair of the Bulgarian Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva, will open the third edition of the summer opera and ballet festival "Stage of the Ages" in the Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo. The festival will be situated on the Tsarevets hill in Veliko Tarnovo. It will feature singers and dancers from the National Opera and Ballet, as well as the dancers from ballet "Arabesque". ...

The regional Prosecution's Office of the Bulgarian city of Kardzhali has accused Dzhem Mustafa of persuading two women into prostitution. Mustafa has been detained for 72 hours. The regional Prosecution's Office will prepare and submit to the district court a request for his arrest. ...

In Bulgaria, the first half of 2010 saw households cutting spending and companies withdrawing funds from banks to prop their operations.

Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov will explain in the Parliament how the state is planning to take back all the properties that have been taken away illegally. The question to Borisov has come from the rightist Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) party. It includes the Tsar properties, the so-called "Alley One" in the Black Sea city of Varna, as well as all the cases of replaced state areas. ...

July 2010 saw the euro area Business Climate Indicator improve after a ‘pause’ in June, while the Economic Sentiment Indicator went up in the EU and the euro zone, strongly influenced by markedly positive readings in Germany.

Local tourism industry hoping to cash in from sharp downturn in Bulgarians holidaying abroad

Supposedly, there are 1269 gangsters in Bulgaria. If those facing murder charges after ‘Operation Killers’ are found guilty, there will be five fewer at large.

Despite uncertainty of bid to join EU, Ankara flexes its diplomatic muscles elsewhere

Serbia will seek a solution through peaceful means, says president Boris Tadić, warning that confrontation would strip his country of any chance to campaign for its national interests