Sun, Nov 08 2009
About 93 per cent of young Bulgarians want to leave the country, while half of the workforce, or about 1.5 million people, are considering emigration. This is according to a survey by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences' Centre for the Study of the Population. Forty-one per cent of those who consider themselves well-to-do want to emigrate. In the past 16 years, more than 700 000 Bulgarians have left the country. About 100 villages have been left deserted because of emigration. Analysts at the centre believe, however, that the stabilisation of the economy and improved standard of living that will result from Bulgaria joining the European Union will decrease the outflow, and may even turn it into an inflow. (Novinar)
Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
Health Minister: Influenza strain is not seasonal flu, it is swine flu. More than 100 000 Bulgarians are down with the H1N1 strain.