Sofia

Over BGN 20 M in old debt on account of garbage collection and property taxes that have remained outstanding are owed by state-owned establishments in Bulgaria.

Interior and Defence ministries owe over BGN 1 M in debt accumulated over the past five years, as reported by Pressa daily.

Bosch Software Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of German technology giant Bosch, plans to acquire Cologne-based ProSyst Software AG, which has a research and development unit in Sofia.

Agreements to this effect were signed on February 13, 2015, according to a media statement of Bosch.

ProSyst employs some 110 associates in Cologne, Germany, and Sofia, Bulgaria.

Tickets for the most anticipated event of the year in Bansko - the Alpine Skiing World Cup scheduled for February 27 to March 1, have already started selling.

The tickets can be found both in the Bansko ticket center next to the cable cars depot and in Sofia's Max Sport store on Bulgaria Blvd 81, Standart news reported.

A first-of-a-kind meeting is due on Tuesday between Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov, newly-elected cassation court head Lozan Panov and Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov in Sofia.

The projected route of Bulgaria's Hemus motorway in the area of Veliko Tarnovo will be changed to facilitate easier connection to a new motorway that would link the city with the Danube port of Ruse, at the border with Romania.

Good practices in the implementation of electronic government services will be presented at an expert workshop in Sofia organized by the embassies of the four countries of the Visegrad Group in Sofia on 26 February.

SEE Link, a joint stock company established by the Bulgarian, Macedonian and Zagreb stock exchanges, is seeking a contractor to establish an electronic system for order routing.

Companies based in any of the three countries may take part in the tendering procedure.

The submission deadline is April 1, 2015, according to the Bulgarian Stock Exchange - Sofia (BSE - Sofia).

Plovdiv won in the category Re-establishing the Image of Bulgaria as a Tourist Destination at the forum Vacation and Spa Expo 2015, held in Sofia on February 12 to 14.

Only 20 out of 200 000 ethnic Bulgarians living in Ukraine have been called up as the partial mobilization is ongoing, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

A new film interpretation of the life and activities of Bulgarian national hero Vasil Levski is to be released in Bulgaria on Monday.

The premiere of the two-part movie entitled Dyakon Levski will be at the National Palace of Culture at 7 pm.