Retirees account for more than 10% of the personnel of the Bulgarian armed forces. This is made clear in a written reply given by outgoing Defence Minister Dragomir Zakov to a question by Democratic Bulgaria MP Martin Dimitrov.
There are 4,107 pensioners serving in the armed forces of Bulgaria, 3,153 have been working in the army for over 5 years. 1,325 have active military ranks, the remainder work as civilian experts. The personnel of Bulgaria’s armed forces totals around 40,000 - the exact number is classified information – with around 20,000 directly employed in the army, According to the latest data made public by Minister Zakov, there are around 7,000 vacancies in the army, dnevnik.bg writes.
There is no division in We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) and they will propose a government with the third cabinet-forming mandate if it is handed to them. ''We will go to the president with a ready platform to convince him that we..
Without having any clarity on the exact timing of the second exploratory mandate for government formation, GERB said in a media statement that the GERB-SDS parliamentary group will unequivocally not support it under any circumstances. This stance also..
A special operation on Bulgaria's southern Black Sea coast has seized 18,000 canistars of laughing gas. Warning protocols were issued to 15 people selling laughing gas balloons to stop selling the product to minors and indoors. Specialists from..
The start of the major repair of the Danube Bridge near Ruse is the reason for a serious conversation about the connectivity between..
The Chairman of the GERB-SDS Parliamentary group, Boyko Borissov, sent an official refusal to the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) and confirmed..
During a discussion with US President Joe Biden at the 75 th anniversary NATO summit in Washington DC, Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar..
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