Poultry breeders staged a protest in front of the building of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) in Sofia over the vague measures taken by the agency’s administration to counter bird flu.
According to BFSA data, at this time there are 22 outbreaks of bird flu in Bulgaria. The agency’s director Damyan Iliev admitted that almost one million birds have been culled in Bulgaria since the beginning of the year because of avian flu, but that the disease has continued to spread nonetheless. He added that farmers from the poultry sector have received compensations of over 4 million Leva.
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..
GERB leader Boyko Borissov announced that he is extending a hand to the parties from the former assemblage to seek an option of governance after the elections, the BNR’s reporter Daniel Inkov informed. Boyko Borissov emphasized that pragmatism in..
Acting chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Atanas Zafirov has withdrawn the papers submitted yesterday for the BSP’s independent..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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