Bulgaria’s Prosecutor’s Office is to investigate Minister of Culture Boil Banov as well, this country’s Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev said. The investigation is in connection with permits issued by the Ministry of Culture for construction of a skyscraper near a cultural monument. The Supreme Administrative Prosecutor’s Office and the National Construction Control Directorate have been checking since May the legality of the issued permits for construction of the 118-meter-tall ITOWER in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. The National Construction Control Directorate has ordered that the construction of the skyscraper be halted. According to the investors, the building will consist of offices, buildings, shops and a hotel of a world-famous hotel chain.
Bulgaria is among the first countries of the EU in the number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments connected with domestic tourism, indicate Eurostat data in May, and according to current information this tendency has been..
Air quality measurements taken by Sofia municipality’s mobile station have so far shown that air quality limit values are normal, Sofia municipality has announced. One killed in the explosion at the fireworks warehouses near Elin Pelin..
The man injured in the explosions at a fireworks warehouse near the village of Elin Pelin has died. The doctors did everything they could, condolences to the family, said Prof. Nikolai Gabrovski from Pirogov emergency hospital where the people injured..
Two Bulgarian military helicopters will today help to extinguish the fire burning on the Slavyanka mountain on the border between Bulgaria and Greece...
The explosions near the village of Gara Elin Pelin continue, caretaker Minister of Interior Kalin Stoyanov said. Heavily equipped specialists have..
One of our ambitious goals is to make Sofia a net zero carbon city by 2030. This was announced by the Mayor of Sofia, Vasil Terziev, at the opening of..
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