Bulgaria’s rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union gives us big chances to fulfill cross-border infrastructure projects, Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov said in Varna during the congress of the European Democrat Students. Bulgaria is becoming a very important communication and transport center due to its motorways, ports and railway lines, Premier Borissov further said. Austria and Romania will take over the rotational Presidency of the Council of the EU after Bulgaria and the EU Strategy for the Danube Region is part of that topic. On that occasion Bulgaria and Romania are to hold a joint inter-ministerial meeting in the coastal city of Varna in October.
The Commission for Consumer Protection has ordered the immediate withdrawal from the market of two products known as energy sniff, which are inhaled through the nose and are an alternative to energy drinks. The products have been identified as a serious..
With the votes of GERB, We Continue the Change (PP-DB) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Parliament decided to extend by 180 days the negotiations between the Bulgarian Energy Minister and his Ukrainian counterpart on the sale to Ukraine of..
75.3% of Bulgarians identify themselves as Orthodox, 9.9% as Muslim and 11% as not religious. 59.5% say they believe in God and 27.5% do not. The rest are undecided. A fifth of respondents say they frequently attend religious services. These are..
Acting chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Atanas Zafirov has withdrawn the papers submitted yesterday for the BSP’s independent..
Bulgaria ranks second in the world in terms of bread consumption after Turkiey, reported BNT citing the Turkish news site Yenigün. According to the..
Cases of pertussis (whooping cough) are now few, while the number of scarlet fever and chickenpox cases has been reduced to a..
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