Bulgaria as a Science

October 13, 2005

Bulgar and Nasty

Filed under: Culture - Bulgarolog @ 6:04 pm

It was just as the Crazy Frog had finished belting out across the Tannoy into the gloaming of the Black Sea that it happened: out came the giant flag of Georgi Iliev, surrounded by thousands of smaller Iliev posters, held up by the Lokomotiv Plovdiv faithful. ‘We will never forget, we will always follow your way,’ read another banner. (more…)

Brits Buy Homes in Bulgaria, “Land of Slatko the Beret”

Filed under: Uncategorized, Property Bulgaria - Bulgarolog @ 5:59 pm

“Bulgaria. I’ve been twice now and confess I can never quite understand who runs the place, nor why so many Brits trust it as a retirement home,” writes Tom Walker in The Spectator. (more…)

Romania: Libra Bank and Vanguard Launch Credit Line for Shares Acquisition

Filed under: Uncategorized, Business, Property Romania - Bulgarolog @ 5:54 pm

Libra Bank and brokerage company Vanguard have recently launched a credit line dedicated to investments in securities traded on the Romanian capital market. (more…)

Romanian delegation will explore energy and defence ties

Filed under: Business, Property Romania - Bulgarolog @ 5:51 pm

NEW DELHI, OCT 11: A high-level Romanian delegation, which includes 12 oil and power company representatives, will be visiting India from October 22. Led by the country’s commerce minister Loan Codrut Seres, the delegation will explore cooperation in several sectors including energy, automotives, heavy machinery, pharamaceuticals and real estate. (more…)

Romania: What Happened To The “Giant Sucking Sound” Of Outsourcing

Filed under: Business - Bulgarolog @ 5:44 pm

The conventional wisdom is that outsourcing has been very bad for the U.S. Information Technology workforce.

After all, now that a company can transfer the work of a $50/hour U.S. programmer to an equally skilled programmer in India or Romania and pay only $5/hour for the same job, what are U.S. workers to do? Ross Perot once famously described the result of job loss as the “Giant Sucking Sound”…from the movement of the jobs overseas. Virtually every newsgroup, blog and magazine editorial quotes anecdotal evidence of someone who has lost a job in the recent down turn as validation of this theory. Almost all make dire predictions of the end of U.S. I.T. dominance . (more…)

October 12, 2005

(Bulgaria) Czech commercial real estate market best among new EU members

Filed under: Property Bulgaria, Property Romania - Bulgarolog @ 6:18 am

(Romania,Bulgaria) The Czech Republic tops the list of commercial real estate markets in the new EU member states becauuse it offers the best combination of growth potential and stability, according to a poll by Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker (CWHB). (more…)

Romania: Certinvest to Launch Mutual Fund for Real Estate Projects

Filed under: Property Romania - Bulgarolog @ 6:14 am

Certinvest will launch a mutual fund for real estate investments, aimed for new small and medium-sized residential projects, the company’s manager, Eugen Voicu said. (more…)

Certinvest to Launch Mutual Fund for Real Estate Investments

Filed under: Property Romania - Bulgarolog @ 6:12 am

Certinvest will launch a mutual fund for real estate investments, earmarked for new small and medium-sized residential projects, said the company’s manager, Eugen Voicu, “Dnevnik a.m.” reports. (more…)

Radical Changes in Romanian Fiscal Code to Take Place

Filed under: Property Romania - Bulgarolog @ 6:10 am

Radical changes in taxation of real estate transactions and dividend incomes will take place, according to ACT Media News Agency reports. (more…)

Romania: Real Estate Investment Funds Put Aside Banking Loan

Filed under: Property Romania - Bulgarolog @ 6:08 am

Real estate investment funds represent an alternative to the banking loan programs for the development of estate projects, ACT Media News Agency reports. (more…)