Eurostat survey on housing conditions in the EU has shown that 85% of Bulgarians own a home. According to that indicator Bulgaria is among the first in the union. First in the chart is Romania, with 96 percent of private ownership of housing, followed by Croatia and Lithuania - 90 percent. More than half of Bulgarians live in brick houses and 45 percent live in apartments in blocks. From a total of about 3.9 million homes, 2.6 million are situated in urban areas and about 1.3 million are in villages.
On Tuesday, the lowest temperatures will be between minus 5 and 0°C; in Sofia - around minus 5°C. It will remain cold and cloudy with snowfalls over most of the country and rainfall in the southeastern regions. The snow cover will..
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev named Sofia Airport after the Apostle of Freedom Vasil Levski, the press secretariat of the head of state announced. Thus, its official name becomes Vasil Levski Sofia Airport. According to the Constitution, the Head of..
The European Commission has decided to close the infringement procedure against Bulgaria for the non-implementation of its obligations to review and update the Second Flood Risk Management Plans and the Third River Basin Management Plans. A statement..
Kristiyan Vladov and Stefan Kyurkchiev of the Plovdiv Museum of Natural History are working on a project to bring live fish from the southern Arctic..
The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It..
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The..
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