Environmentalists from all over the country are organizing protests today against the amendments to the Water Act and the regulation on the use of surface waters, proposed by the Minister of Environment and Water in the caretaker government Asen Lichev.
“The amendments aim to mitigate the requirements for building new hydroelectric power stations in protected territories,” Nikolay Grazhdanski from Panega 2021 angling club commented for the BNR. According to Dimitar Kumanov from Balkanka association the amendments proposed legalize the illegally built power stations. “With the exception of three hydroelectric power plants, all others do not have constituted construction rights, and the minister wants this situation to go on forever,” he added.
MPs decided to change the National Assembly's agenda. At the suggestion of "DPS - New Beginning", the first topic on “establishing a temporary commission to investigate the presence of US influence on Bulgaria, including through NGOs"..
During the largest tourist exhibition for end customers in Europe – CMT Stuttgart, the architectural complex “Museum of Religions” in Stara Zagora won one of the three major awards in the International CT AWARD competition, BTA has..
On Thursday morning there will be fog and reduced visibility with low clouds in the lowlands , valleys and along the Danube. Around midday, visibility will improve, clouds will break and the weather will be mostly sunny. Minimum temperatures will be..
In a statement from the parliamentary rostrum, the leader of Vazrazhdane party, Kostadin Kostadinov, stated that his party would not allow "a national..
President Rumen Radev held a phone conversation with the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan Regional..
Bulgaria’s Minister of Finance Temenuzhka Petkova said that she is concerned about the current state of the country’s finances, which,..
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