Bulgarian Opposition Frowns at Budget 2005
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Politics: 1 December 2004, Wednesday. Nadezhda Mihailova, president of the big Bulgarian right-wing party Union of Democratic Forces will open Wednesday in Sofia a discussion on the 2005 budget.
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Parliament on Sunday finally approved the next year government budget, but the opposition urged President Georgi Parvanov to veto it because of guarantees it provides for a loan to build a new paediatric ...
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Opposition politicians call for tighter control on spending for the 2012 Olympics after the BBC revealed spiralling costs.
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Fresh splits threaten Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's coalition as he seeks parliamentary backing for his budget.
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A resident of the Black Sea city of Varna reportedly launched a protest against a newly introduced toll system which requires that drivers pay to use the road to the city cemetery.
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Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov on Friday blasted a law that cuts state fund financial assistance for people, who haven't regularly paid their health insurance.
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Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mykola Azarov said the state budget has failed to receive about 1.15 billion hryvni in revenues due to the current political crisis.
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Bulgaria expressed disapproval of Italy's Giustiniano-SEECAS project, which deprives it of authority over air traffic control in Southeastern Europe.
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A Bulgarian solicitor has criticized the Libyan suggestion for paying cash for the possible repealing of the death sentences of the five Bulgarian nurses.
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The European Commission will criticise newest members Bulgaria and Romania for failing to curb corruption.
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Business: 10 October 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria's Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg expressed his discontent with the condition of Bulgarian Kalotina checkpoint on the Serbian border.
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Parliament ordered Friday Minister of Finance Milen Velchev to explain why and how the government budget has posted an unprecedented surplus of nearly leva (BGN) 1 billion this year.
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Politics: 1 October 2004, Friday. Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov expressed his disapproval of the new reforms within the National Health and Security Insurance Fund (NHIF). Under some new regulations, ...
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The EU's new budget chief criticised calls by the bloc's richest states to limit EU spending to one percent of gross national income (GNI), saying it would not amount to a freeze but a big funding cut.
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Defenders of financial rigour in the European Union attacked Tuesday a German call for a radical overhaul of the eurozone's budget rules at a lively meeting of EU finance chiefs.
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Political and fiscal constraints will make it hard for Democratic critics of the presidentâs budget to assert their priorities.
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The opposition calls its supporters into the street and the government comes down hard  -  but there are also signs the anger may be waning