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The local insurance companies logged a gross premium income from general insurance operations of 665.4 mln levs for January-July 2007, shows data released by the Bulgarian financial regulator. Insurance claims added up to 245.4 mln levs over the review period.

NEK, Bulgaria's national power grid operator, Wednesday said it has received initial offers from five companies interested in a 49% stake in Belene Power Company, the outfit that will operate the future 2,000MW nuclear power plant (NPP) at the local Danube town of Belene.

Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy Petar Dimitrov (right) gave a start to three projects under the operative program Development of the Competitiveness of the Bulgarian Economy. It envisions the absorption of 1,2 billion Euros of the EU funds

By 2015, 1.725 billion euro will be invested in road constructions in Bulgaria, said Bulgaria's Minister of Transport Petar Mutafchiev (second on the left). In Varna he inaugurated the meeting of transport ministers under the EU Central European initiative

Bulgarian companies push to take up the construction of the plant's canteen

The European Commission will launch several punitive procedures against Bulgaria that could result in hefty fines for the EU new-comer, Dnevnik learned from a high-ranking officials in the Bulgarian state administration.