Renowned Bulgarian mountain climber Boyan Petrov, who scaled his 8th 8,000 meter peak this year, a zoologist by profession working at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia and environmentalist Andrey Kovachev from the Green Balkans, an organization working for the preservation of rare species and habitats in Bulgaria, were injured in a serious road accident in Kresna Gorge in southern Bulgaria yesterday. The two are in intensive care. Andrey Kovachev has a cerebral oedema. Boyan Petrov is in a medically-induced coma, with a head trauma, broken ribs and lung injuries. Petrov and Kovachev were working on an environmental roadkill-counting project along the E79 where the Struma motorway should pass.
On Friday, the National Assembly will vote on a no-confidence motion against the cabinet of Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov over ''failures in environmental and water policy''. The fourth no-confidence motion against the current government was tabled..
The Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, Elisa Spiropali, has arrived in Bulgaria for an official visit. The two-day visit is at the invitation of National Assembly Speaker Natalia Kiselova . Elisa Spiropali was welcomed at the airport by the..
Tuition fees at state universities should not exceed 75% of the expenses for the training. This was what MPs decided with amendments to the Higher Education Act adopted on Wednesday at first reading. It is expected that after the..
The EU's Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) has allowed Bulgaria and 14 other EU countries to exceed their budget limits in order to boost..
Full EU membership is neither the end of the story nor a solution to all problems. Realism and accurate self-assessment must guide important decisions,..
The ministers of agriculture of Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania have signed a joint declaration concerning the agricultural aspects of..
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