[1] [2] Business: 60 million euro will be invested in Vidin region during Danube Bridge 2 District Vidin >> Tuesday, 2008-11-18 12:05 Source: SofiaEcho.com About 60 million euro will be invested directly in the regional economy of Vidin region in northwestern Bulgaria during that Danube Bridge 2 is being built to link the town to Calafat in Romania, weekly Stroitelstvo Gradut reproted. The direct investments will come as building materials, fuels, equipment, machinery, manpower and their kit. The bridge itself and the adjoining its infrastructure, including works on the Romanian side, is 274 million euro, of which 226 million are on the Bulgarian side...
Society: Unemployment in Northwestern Bulgaria Below 10% Region North-West >> Thursday, 2008-10-02 13:08 Source: News.bg For the first time in the last 15 years unemployment in the three regions of Northwestern Bulgaria - Montana , Vidin and Vratza decreased below 10 percent, the Regional service on employment in Montana announced. At the moment the unemployed in the three regions are 9,88 percent of the active population, BNR announced. The level of unemployment in Northwestern Bulgaria is still higher than the country`s average, which is about 5,89 percent, but is 3 percent lower than the level in the same period...
Culture: Royal Treasures Displayed at the National Museum of History City of Sofia >> Thursday, 2008-08-28 01:03 Source: StandartNews Three treasures of silver coins minted by King Ivan Sratzimir were "deposited" in the National Museum of History in Sofia . A real flood of silver coins poured in the National Museum of History: three treasures of silver and copper coins, minted by Bulgarian King Ivan Sratzimir (1371-1396), wait to be bought out by the museum. The two treasures of silver coins consist of 421 and 905 coins each. They are the biggest of all discovered by now treasures of coins minted by the last Mediaeval Bulgarian ruler....
Bulgarian school children will go to a monastery to have their holiday this year. They will be send there by the bishop of Plovdiv Nikolay who opens school camps in the God`s houses, writes “24 hours” newspaper. The summer camps will be first for children attending “Religion” classes. Staff from the monastery will help the children in their daily pursuits. The orthodox monasteries in the region of Vidin start also to open for children. Since last year the Klisura monastery is also receiving school groups. Other monasteries that are willing and already interact with the children are the Dobridol monastery and the Etropole monastery.
Transport: Danube Bridge-2 Construction near Vidin Starts Off Town of Vidin >> Friday, 2008-06-13 00:20 Source: StandartNews At long last, the Danube Bridge-2 construction has been launched. " The first concrete pier has been embedded ," one of the engineers in charge of the project`s implementation, Konstantin Zhiponov, said. Driving the first pier in also set off the planned testing of the foundations of the Danube Bridge-2 at the construction site in Vidin . Vidin Municipality Mayor Rumen Vidov attended the long awaited event, which certainly gave the locals a strong sense of occasion. Fixing the piers will be done around... Travel: List of Bulgarian Settlements in Mountain AreasRated Village of Kutovo >> Monday, 2008-04-07 15:58 Source: VisitToBulgaria.com National Agriculture and Rural Development Plan 2000-2006 - Settlements in Mountain Areas BLAGOEVGRAD
1. Bansko : Town of Bansko, Gostun, Dobrinishte, Kremena, Mesta, Obidim, Osenovo, Filipovo
2. Belitza : Town of Belitza , Babiak, Zlatarica, Gylybovo, Dagonovo, Kraishte, Kuzaovo, Liutovo, Orcevo, Palatnik, Gorno Kraishte, Chereshovo
3. Blagoevgrad : Izgrev, Belo pole, Bistrica, Town of Blagoevgrad, Buchino, Bylgarchevo, Gabrovo, Gorno Hyrsovo, Debochica, Delvino, Drenkovo, Dybrava, ... Transport: Spanish FCC plans to build a temporary port near Vidin Town of Vidin >> Monday, 2008-04-07 15:33 Source: SofiaEcho.com Spanish developer FCC plans to build a temporary port off the town of Vidin , Dnevnik daily reported on April 7. FCC has already filed a request for a building permit and has the support of Vidin regional governor Krustio Spassov. The Spanish developer was contracted to build the second bridge between Romania and Bulgaria over the Danube River. In a first display of support, Spassov sent a letter backing the FCC undertaking to Bulgarian Regional Development and Public Works Minister Assen Gagaouzov ... Society: Census 2001: Ethnic Groups in Bulgaria (self-awareness)Rated Village of Kutovo >> Monday, 2008-04-07 15:18 Source: News Guide Bulgaria The result for self-awareness of the Bulgarian population based on last made census from the National Statistics Institute in 2001
District
Total
Ethnic Groups by self-awareness
Do not know
Not answered
Bulgarian
Turk
Gypsy
Russian
Armenian
Wallach
Macedonian
Greek
Ukrainian
Jewish
Romanian
Other
Bulgaria
7 928 901
6 655 210
746 664
370 908
15 595
10 832
10 566
5 071
3 ... Politics: Mayor of Bulgaria`s Vidin Wants to Meet Transport Minister over Danube Bridge 2 Town of Vidin >> Thursday, 2008-03-20 18:05 Source: Novinite.com The Mayor of the northwestern city of Vidin requested a meeting with the Transport Minister so that the Ministry and the Municipality could define precisely their positions on the project for a second bridge connecting Bulgaria and Romania over the Danube. The companies selected to carry out the construction of the Danube Bridge 2 project declined earlier the invitation of Mayor Rumen Vidov to participate in a working group for solving the relevant organization matters. They rejected Vidov`s proposal ... Politics: Vidin municipality applies for Strasbourg committee of municipalities Municipality Vidin >> Saturday, 2007-12-22 12:06 Source: Focus Agency The purpose of the visit of mayors of regional centres members of Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria in Strasbourg was the creation of prerequisites for future cooperation, Mayor of Vidin Rumen Vidov said for Radio FOCUS – Vidin . He announced that the Bulgarian group met with Secretary General of the European People’s Party Antonio Lopez and President of EP Hans Petering. The rest of the meetings were directed towards discussions of European funds and programs. Unfortunately the municipality...[1] [2]