Caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov and caretaker Minister of Tourism Stela Baltova opened the international Holiday & SPA Expo in Sofia.
Prime Minister Gerdzhikov pointed out that tourism is a unique kind of business as it is targeted at people and helps nations get to know each other. Ognyan Gerdzhikov added that over the past year Bulgaria has been visited by over 8 million tourists from abroad who spent around 3 billion euro in the country. Minister Baltova on her part stated that tourism must become a national cause and stressed that it has a most powerful effect on all other sectors of the economy.
Hail storm caused huge damage in the regions of Plovdiv, Haskovo, Stara Zagora and Sliven. No people were injured but crops in many places were destroyed . The villages of Banya, Samuilovo, Zetiovo, Gita, Svoboda and Shivachevo..
13% of boys and 11% of 11-year-old girls in Bulgaria smoked at least one cigarette in the past 30 days of the survey, BGNES reported, referring to a UN report on the healthy behavior of school-age children. 17% of boys under 13 also..
Today Bulgaria is hosting a global event of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The results of the organisation's global report on social-emotional skills among 15-year-old students around the world will be announced from..
MEPs are concerned about Russian interference in the upcoming elections on June 9, and the properties on the territory of Bulgaria currently owned by..
The Bulgarian Parliament has finally postponed the liberalisation of the energy market for one year, starting from 1 July. The decision was taken with..
Bulgaria will assist Ukraine in the process of rebuilding its energy infrastructure. This was announced after a meeting between Bulgaria’s Energy..
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