Bulgaria and the USA continue to deepen bilateral cooperation within the frameworks of NATO and the EU, Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov and Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs with responsibility for the Western Balkans and the Aegean Matthew Palmer agreed at a meeting in Sofia. It became clear at the meeting that energy cooperation with the USA has the potential to increase Bulgaria’s energy security, including through diversification of the sources and the routes of the gas supplies. Premier Borissov and Matthew Palmer also discussed the European and North-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkans. Boyko Borissov insisted that “NATO and the EU need to work closely together for better synergy in their communication with the countries from the region”.
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in Brussels reports. The money is being granted to alleviate part of the expenses of the companies which..
Army personnel and two helicopters from the 24 th air base at Krumovo have joined the efforts to extinguish a big fire in Mount Sredna Gora close to Pesnopoy village, Kaloyanovo municipality and Mihiltsi village, Hisarya municipality. The..
President Rumen Radev called for the processes of modernization of the navy to continue. On board the frigate Drazki in the Black Sea, the president, the Deputy Minister of Defence Radostin Iliev and the commander of the Bulgarian navy rear admiral..
After 17 MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF, were expelled, among them the party’s other co-chair Dzevdet Chakarov, MRF MP Ahmed..
On Friday the weather will be sunny and hot. Clouds will form in the afternoon but there will only be isolated showers in some parts in Eastern..
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in..
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