At a roundtable at the University of Sofia on the demographics of illiteracy and of the lack of proper education Minister of Education Krassimir Valtchev advocated a thesis that absenteeism from school should be deemed a crime. Bulgaria’s worst problem is not the decline of the population but the rise in the numbers of people with poor education, Valtchev said and stressed that 90 percent of the country’s Roma (Gypsies) have education lower than the secondary level. Migration has assumed a cultural profile as the educated flee the uneducated, and the emigration of the educated is a worse problem that the low birth rate, because the country loses not only many young people but also their progeny, the minister said.
"There is no, and cannot be, any opposition between Dogan and me," DPS Co-Chairman Delyan Peevski stated in a release from the party's press center. He added, however, that there was an opposition and a conflict: "The conflict is Peevski versus the fat..
Bulgaria's air ambulance helicopter has completed its first operation in the mountains , interim Transport Minister Georgi Gvozdeykov said. New delay expected for air ambulances for emergency medical services Responding to a signal from the..
The salaries of people employed in the summer tourist season have risen by 20% , according to caretaker Tourism Minister Evtim Miloshev. He told BNR that the shortage of workers in the industry was not only due to poor pay, which he said was not poor at..
The National Museum of Literature celebrates 174 years since the birth of Ivan Vazov. The celebration also marks the round anniversary of the first..
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) will first circulate a letter to other parliamentary groups asking whether they are open to supporting a second..
Wednesday will be hot and sunny. There will be clouds in the afternoon, but rain will only fall in parts of Eastern Bulgaria and in the mountains...
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