Bulgaria Schedule of Events - Nov 20 - Dec 19

* Thursday, November 20 - Sofia: Bulgarian government holds regular meeting, to discuss additional budget allocations to the Defence Ministry among other issues (0800 GMT).

* Thursday, November 20 - Sofia: Greek commercial bank Emporiki Bank opens new headquarters in Bulgaria (1000 GMT).

* Thursday, November 20 - Peshtera (Bulgaria): Bulgaria's wine and spirits maker Vinprom Peshtera opens new spirits production unit (1200 GMT).

* Thursday, November 20 - Sofia: Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev meets European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) general director Franz-Hermann Bruener during his one-day official visit to Bulgaria.

* Thursday, November 20 - Sofia: Bulgarian dairy producers association holds national conference to discuss issues in the sector.

* Thursday, November 20 - Sofia: Bulgarian farm producers meet to discuss food prices (0900 GMT).

Thursday, November 20 – Sofia: Drug maker Sopharma holds a shareholders' meeting (0900 GMT)

* Friday, November 21 - Sofia: The European Investment Bank and Sofia Municipality to sign a 105 million euro ($131.6 million) loan deal for underground railway construction in Sofia.

* Friday, November 21 - Sofia: The European Investment Bank and Bulgarian leasing company UniCredit Leasing, part of Italian banking group UniCredit, to sign 80 million euro ($100 million) loan deal for supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Friday, November 21 – Sofia: Central bank expected to release weekly foreign exchange reserves data.

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Bulgaria’s central bank to issue end-September gross foreign debt data (1100 GMT).

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Financial and industrial group Eurohold Bulgaria to release consolidated financial results for the third quarter.

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Blue-chip car battery manufacturer MonBat to issue revenue and profit forecast for the last quarter of 2008.

Thursday, November 27 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release business sentiment data.

Friday, November 28 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release October producer price data.

Friday, November 28 - Sofia: Deadline by which the Finance Ministry is to release October budget balance data expires.

Friday, December 19 - Sofia: Bulgarian road construction group Holding Roads holds an extraordinary general shareholders' meeting to vote on paying a bonus of 3.84 million levs ($2.5 million/2.0 million euro) to its supervisory board chairman Vassil Bozhkov.