Bulgaria will ask the European Union for help in order to repair the damage caused by the recent floods, caretaker Minister of Interior Ivan Demerdzhiev said. Currently, Bulgaria is taking emergency measures, Minister Demerdzhiev added. “The government’s attention is now focused on doing everything that is within its competence. Next, our primary task will be to attract this additional financial resource”, Minister Demerdzhiev noted.
For his part, caretaker Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Yavor Gechev announced that checks will be carried out to ascertain whether there was illegal logging and whether illegal logging is also the cause of the calamity.
On Tuesday, the lowest temperatures will be between minus 5 and 0°C; in Sofia - around minus 5°C. It will remain cold and cloudy with snowfalls over most of the country and rainfall in the southeastern regions. The snow cover will..
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev named Sofia Airport after the Apostle of Freedom Vasil Levski, the press secretariat of the head of state announced. Thus, its official name becomes Vasil Levski Sofia Airport. According to the Constitution, the Head of..
The European Commission has decided to close the infringement procedure against Bulgaria for the non-implementation of its obligations to review and update the Second Flood Risk Management Plans and the Third River Basin Management Plans. A statement..
Kristiyan Vladov and Stefan Kyurkchiev of the Plovdiv Museum of Natural History are working on a project to bring live fish from the southern Arctic..
The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It..
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The..
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