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103 000 Bulgarians Vote In National Campaign For Bulgarian Symbols 14/03/2008
A total of 103 000 Bulgarians, 10 per cent of whom were expatriates, have voted so far in a national campaign to select their favourite Bulgarian symbols, Violeta Ivanova, chair of the Bulgarian Association for Business and Tourist Information (BABTI), told a round table. The campaign, organised by BABTI and launched in April 2007, aims to select the most characteristic symbols to identify Bulgaria abroad. Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is the media partner of the campaign. Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin told the participants in the round-table that Bulgaria's culture, history and modern achievements have brought new prestige and character to the European Union. Kalfin said that opinions of Bulgaria were largely formed by visiting tourists. He said that 74 per cent of tourists, or... more

Drop In Bulgarian Black Sea Coast Property Prices 21/03/2008
A sharp fall in the demand for smaller studio and one-bedroom apartments of between 40 and 60 square metres in Bulgaria's traditional Black Sea resorts, has pushed down prices by between 8 and 12 per cent in the past six months. Now the prices vary between 800 and 1,200 euro per square metre in new developments, depending on their proximity to the beach, real estate agents announced, quoted by The Financial Times. The newspaper claims that while British and Irish buyers are gradually losing interest in property on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, they are being promptly replaced by wealthy Russians and Romanians. Not everyone considers the slow-down of this market as a negative trend. Its immediate consequence will be a slight hold on the rushed overdevelopment, recently observed... more