New Bulgarian University

Six Bulgarian cities are participating in the tenth edition of the European Researchers' Night which is taking place on Friday.

Events will take place simultaneously in 280 cities across Europe and beyond.

The six Bulgarian cities hosting events are Sofia, Plovidv, Varna, Burgas, Ruse and Stara Zagora, daily Dnevnik informs.

Lukoil has threatened to sue the Risk Management Lab at the New Bulgarian University over a recent report stating that the Burgas-based Lukoil Neftochim refinery deprived the state budget of over BGN 1 B through inflated prices.

American IT giant Hewlett-Packard, one of the biggest investors in Bulgaria, has opened a hi-tech lab in Bulgaria.

The facility, which occupies and area of 300 square meters in Business Park Sofia, will be used for the simulation of technological and business processes and the training of experts of the company in Bulgaria.

Ivan Ivanov, the single candidate to become the chair of Bulgaria's energy regulator KEVR, has now been picked by Parliament to take over the body.

Ivanov was backed by an overwhelming majority of 142 MPs, with only ten against and 15 abstaining.

Two socialist lawmakers and seven from nationalist Ataka party were among those who did not vote "yes".

Deputy Sofia Mayor Todor Chobanov has predicted a 7-10% increase in the number of tourists in the capital in 2015.

Chobanov presented Monday the implementation of the Regional Tourism Product Development project in the municipalities of Sofia, Ihtiman and Svoge.

Marieta Zaharieva has been appointed Executive Director of the Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency.

This year's edition of the European Researchers' Night will take place on September 26 in six Bulgarian cities from the early afternoon till around midnight.

Future medics and pharmacists are the largest group, applying for student loans in Bulgaria, shows a survey of the Postbank, quoted by Pariteni.bg.

They are 16% of all applicants since September 2013. Tuition fees for those studying medicine, pharmacy and architecture are the highest in Bulgarian universities. 

Support for Bulgaria's socialist-led government fell by 15% in the 15 days after the European Parliament elections, according to the Gallup International polling agency.

According to Gallup International data, as cited by bTV, 47% of the polled demand the resignation of the government headed by Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, while 32% support it.

An interview of Novinite with prof. Nina Dyulgerova, an expert in International Relations and Geoeconomics of Global Energy, on the latest events around South Stream.