Bulgaria’s EU Presidency in 2018 is going to cost roughly 75m euro, the director of the center for the preparation of the presidency Lubomir Ivanov has said. The team for the presidency will be 1200-strong, he has added. Remuneration paid to team members will be within the framework of existing wages without any pay rise. Training of staff for servicing the Presidency will begin in September and will close in mid-2017.
According to a survey by Gallup International Balkan, one tenth of respondents admit that they would accept to vote in exchange for money, other incentives or coercion, 78 per cent deny it and 12 per cent say they cannot decide. This means that more..
The Imperial Eagle Festival, organised by the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds and the municipality of Topolovgrad, takes place today in Topolovgrad, Sakar Mountain, Haskovo region. The event brings together nature lovers, farmers,..
On Saturday morning there will be frost in the lowlands, and fog in the river basins. During the day the weather will be predominantly sunny with a moderate wind from the East. Minimum temperatures 2° C., below zero to 6° C., for Sofia 2° C., below..
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Sofia by train, eyewitnesses report on social media. Thunberg was spotted walking along Sofia’s..
A Bulgarian siphoned 2.2 million pounds from the money of British taxpayers, the "Sunday Telegraph" reports. The scheme involved flying..
Caretaker Minister of the Environment and Water, Petar Dimitrov, says he does not think there was a problem in the location of the air..
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