Big agricultural plot in the mountain of Strandzha - ID 2681

Environmentalists Protest Against 5 Billion Euro Projects 14/03/2008
An NGO contested in Brussels 50 large EU-funding investment projects for Eastern Europe that have been approved and started. Six of these projects are in Bulgaria and are at the total cost of 5.12 billion euro, said sources from Friends of the Earth - Europe. The NGO believes these projects are harmful to the environment and billions of euro will be wasted. Some of the contested projects in Bulgaria are the construction of Lyulin motorway that will cut across Kresna Gorge, waste management facilities in Sofia, expansion of Sofia airport and construction of Belene NPP. In lines with Sofia's garbage problems, the environmentalists said it is important that a new dumpsite should be found and that garbage should be collected selectively and investments be made for their recycling.... more

Bulgaria Is A Tax Paradise In Eu 21/10/2008
In the last five years the economic relations between Bulgaria and Austria grew significantly. This claimed in an interview for money.bg Mihael Angerer, trade councilor in the Austrian embassy in Bulgaria.Since the actual membership of Bulgaria in the European Union, and especially after 1998 the Austrian entrepreneurs found big investment potential in Bulgaria and invested in all sectors. Particularly high was the engagement in the financial and the insurance sectors, in telecommunications, energy and trade. The investors found the opportunity to invest in real estate, said also Angerer.According to him, data from the end of 2007 shows that Austria has invested 5.2 billion euro and is investor N1 in Bulgaria. The trade between the two counties is developing well. Form 2004 to 2008 the... more