The cohesion policy procedures must be simplified, European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu commented during the 7th European Evaluation Conference entitled The Result Orientation: Cohesion Policy at Work, held in Bulgaria's capital Sofia. When I became EU Commissioner for Regional Policy the absorption of EU funds in Bulgaria was 60%, as in Romania. Now Bulgaria absorbs 95% of the EU money, Commissioner Cretu underlined. In 2015 some 2,000 small companies in Bulgaria were supported directly through cohesion funds and in 2014 a total of 19,000 new jobs were created due to those funds. Commissioner Cretu said that between 2007 and 2013 over EUR 300 billion was allotted to the EU through cohesion policies and that most of this money was directed to less-developed states, especially to those which joined the union after 2004.
More than 500 delegates from 150 countries have arrived in Bulgaria for the 61st session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) . The plenary session of the most influential international scientific organisation in the field of climate..
The 33rd Summer Olympics will be officially opened in Paris today. On this occasion, Bulgaria's Head of State Rumen Radev is in the French capital to attend the opening ceremony at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron and IOC President..
A fire broke out in a fireworks warehouse complex between the town of Elin Pelin and the village of Gara Elin Pelin near Sofia, the BTA news agency reported. There was a series of explosions in the warehouses. The alert for the burning warehouses was..
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Two Bulgarian military helicopters will today help to extinguish the fire burning on the Slavyanka mountain on the border between Bulgaria and Greece...
114 MPs from GERB-CDF, We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria, DPS and 10 independents supported the government's bill on the introduction of the euro..
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