At a meeting with the Ambassador of Cyprus, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva has called for an immediate expert-level meeting between representatives of the Financial Supervision Commission and the Cypriot Finance Ministry on the case of the bankrupt insurance company "Olympic". Many people have been affected and we still do not have official information from Cyprus about the procedure for paying compensations, Zaharieva said. The ambassador said that he would assist in clarifying the details of the case, which left uncovered more than 200,000 clients of the company in Bulgaria.
Ground forces military personnel destroyed an unexploded ordnance found yesterday in Vazrazhdane residential area of Sofia, the press service of the Ministry of Defence has announced. The ordnance was a corroded air bomb. The bomb was destroyed..
Conditions for mountain hiking are good until midday, with the exception of the Balkan Range, where there will be fog and rain, the Mountain Rescue Service says. In the afternoon the weather conditions will worsen and mountain hiking is not..
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry is posting additional staff at consular missions to cope with the tourist industry’s increasing needs of foreign workers during the summer season, reads the Foreign Ministry’s position regarding an interview given by..
The Bulgarian Parliament has finally postponed the liberalisation of the energy market for one year, starting from 1 July. The decision was taken with..
Hail storm caused huge damage in the regions of Plovdiv, Haskovo, Stara Zagora and Sliven. No people were injured but crops in many..
Today Bulgaria is hosting a global event of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The results of the organisation's global..
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