ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: ONGC, partners bag 17 blocks under NELP VIII Cabinet panel approves award of 33 blocks.

RON is going up, yet so does unemployment, to peak in May and June, labor minister says. Economic mixed bag reported yesterday, as the RON/EUR exchange rate reached a low level, while the perspectives related to unemployment are less encouraging, according to the labour minister Mihai Seitan.

National Assembly chairman Nguyen Phu Trong yesterday held talks on judicial reform with visiting Hungarian Prosecutor General Kovacs Tamas. Trong expressed his desire to strengthen cooperation between the two countries' prosecutors.

The Management of the Sofia Airport Center, a project of Tishman International and GE Real Estate, has presented the first building in Bulgaria to be LEED certificed.

The first LEED* building award for energy and environmental design in Bulgaria has gone to the Sofia Airport Center office complex built by Tishman International.

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's bid to join the EU is currently blocked by a dispute with Athens over its name, which is identical to that of a Greek province.

Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, reiterated his statements that Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) might have criminal ties....

Bulgaria needs to reconsider its anti-crisis policy and come up with a new package, including “preventive budget deficit”, according to President Parvanov.

Consortium Air Atlantic is willing to look over posiblitties to be strategic investor in Balkan Airlines, A. Tomov, Euroleftist party chairman said....

Bulgaria’s Finance Minister Simeon Djankov is heading Thursday for a working visit to the Netherlands and the UK. Djankov is meeting Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager Thursday afternoon.

Mr.Djankov will be highly valued by EU and IMF for his austerity measures to curtail deficit, so when Bulgarian economy brakes in pieces he will be able to find a job.

Bulgaria's Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) party, which is part of the rightist Blue Coalition, put on the table Tuesday their own package of 13 anti-crisis measures.

UDF leader, Martin Dimitrov, says the GERB cabinet lacks the vision and the strategy to combat the crisis. Photo by BGNES

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Unemployment rate continued to grow in February, to 8.3 per cent, against 8.1 per cent in the previous month and 5.3 per cent in February 2009, the National Employment Agency (ANOFM) said yesterday.

March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Bulgaria, the European Union member boasting the bloc’s smallest budget deficit, risks seeing its banks sucked under by the fiscal sins of neighboring Greece, Fitch Ratings and Capital Economics Ltd. warned.

The credit downgrades mean parent banks may save funds for their home markets and fail to roll over debt at Balkans units including United Bulgarian Bank AD, owned by the National Bank of Greece.

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