Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Probe into Balkan Stream gas pipeline finds serious violations

MP Temenuzhka Petkova
Photo: BGNES

The probe into the Balkan Stream gas pipeline, ordered by former Premier Kiril Petkov, has established serious violations, the Council of Ministers reported on Tuesday.

The results of the check show violations in environmental and labor legislation, the awarding and conducting of public procurements, financing of activities, etc. The Ministry of Interior, the State Agency for National Security and the Ministry of Environment and Water were alerted.

Former Minister of Energy and GERB MP Temenuzhka Petkova said, at an extraordinary briefing, that the project was implemented in full compliance with the EU rules and Bulgaria’s legislation. “Unlike this government, (i,e, that of Kiril Petkov), we have never signed unfavorable contracts and documents”, Temenuzhka Petkova said.



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Galin Tsokov

Ministry of Education and Science is proposing online final school exams

Holding final school exams online – this is one of the proposals from the package put forward by the Ministry of Education and Science for amendments to the pre-school and school education act, Minister of Education Galin Tsokov has announced. He..

published on 6/4/24 12:06 PM
Ivaylo Yabalkarov

3,843 unaccompanied children have entered Bulgaria in 2023

3 , 843 unaccompanied children crossed into Bulgaria last year, and 416 since the beginning of 2024, said Ivaylo Yabalkarov from the Mission Wings Foundation, in an interview with the BNR. On the fate of migrant children in Bulgaria..

published on 6/4/24 11:18 AM

927 people in Bulgaria have declared incomes of over 1 million Leva

The highest declared income for last year amounts to 70 million Leva (EUR  35 . 785 million ) , indicate National Revenue Agency data after the end of the tax accounting period in this country and the announcement of the incomes of natural..

published on 6/4/24 9:36 AM