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Under a new proposal by Labour Minister Totyu Mladenov, Bulgaria’s unemployed who are actively looking for jobs and take part in qualification programmes would get unemployment benefits for three months longer than initially planned.

Nikolai Mladenov: “Our role in Afghanistan, as a member of Nato and the EU is crucial. We will not decrease our deployment. It keeps radical Islam away from our country.”

Serbian president Boris Tadic has vowed severe punishment for those who beat Brice Taton to death, while Paris has called for the perpetrators to face justice.

‘We know that the work in Bosnia and Herzegovina requires some effort and demands that we are vigilant about the domestic political situation,’ Javier Solana, High Representative for the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, said.

Top-quality offices on major thoroughfares in Sofia are rented for 14 to 15 euro a sq m, or the same as rentals in the two landmark schemes, Serdika Offices and European Retail Centre, due to open in 2010, Colliers office space manager Anton Slavchev said.

The Business Climate Indicator (BCI) for the euro area improved further in September 2009, although the improvement was less marked than in the previous month – and the BCI is still low.

Prime Minister Boiko Borissov held his first working meetings with French ambassador Etienne de Poncins, newly-appointed German ambassador Matthias H?pfner and ambassador John M. Ordway, charg? d’affaires of the US embassy.

Bulgaria looking to revise its assistance for the unemployed to get rid of inefficient spending.

Bulgarian police are investigating a gathering of Ku Klux Klan and alleged neo-Nazis in Asenovgrad, local media reports say.

“We are hoping that with the beginning of this big project, this will send a positive signal to other investors that the business climate in Bulgaria is improving, especially for investors who are in it for the long term, as is the case with BSR Sofia.”