“The price of petrol should fall but the big players are making a big profit at a time of crisis,” Nastimir Ananiev from the ruling We Continue the Change said for the BNR. Ananiev demanded that the Commission on Protection of Competition check “whether there is a cartel and why fuel prices are not falling”.
The socialists from the Bulgarian Socialist Party demanded that the council of the ruling coalition discuss a reduction of VAT on food and medicines. The other partners are against, and want the 20% VAT rate to remain, and that the government redistribute the money from the tax to assist the people affected.
The Ministry of Finance said they would announced a new package of anti-crisis measures in the sphere of energy by the end of the week.
In Bulgaria, the legislation is so arranged that a nationwide strike cannot be held . This was explained to the Bulgarian National Radio by Todor Kapitanov, vice president of the largest trade union in the country, the Confederation of Independent Trade..
5 years for Bulgaria to provide waters from the Arda River to Greece for irrigation was approved as a proposal to Greece by the Bulgarian government. The draft joint declaration on the use of the waters of the Arda River states that the two sides..
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha had a telephone conversation with his Bulgarian counterpart Georg Georgiev. The two discussed steps to achieve a just peace and ways to develop mutually beneficial cooperation. The Ukrainian first diplomat wrote..
At a meeting at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), President Evelina Slavcheva and European Commissioner for Start-ups, Research and Innovation,..
A few days before World Thalassaemia Day on 8 May, doctors and families affected by the disease discussed ways of early diagnosis and prevention...
The Bulgarian student teams that participated in the European Olympiad of Experimental Sciences EOES 2025 in Zagreb have returned with..
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