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..
Wood brought from the floods will remain for the people in Karlovo and they will not have to pay for it , the interim Minister of Agriculture Yavor Gechev told bTV. "There is a lot of speculation, but nobody will pay for it. Flood timber is..
The Bulgarian authorities have not activated the European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism in connection with the recent floods, EU Commission Spokesperson for Budget and Human Resources, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Balazs Ujvari said...
Part of the settlements in the Plovdiv region, which were affected by the floods after the heavy rains in the amount of nearly 200 l/sq.m, now have electricity supply . The water supply is gradually being restored. The clearing of sediments continues,..
The course of Stryama River has been corrected in the last 5 years, but with a calculation methodology dating to 1980. The question is whether this correction was sufficient. There are also doubts that the river was not cleaned, Eng. Ivan Ivanov,..
President Rumen Radev expects the government to act quickly to provide assistance to the flooded areas. Bulgaria’s Head of State visited the village of Karavelovo. He met with families in distress and saw the damages caused by the recent calamity...
Nearly 200 houses have been flooded in the Municipality of Karlovo. Critical sections along Stryama River remained under surveillance on Friday night. Earlier, the river flooded five villages. Precipitation in the area reached 190 litres per..
The Emergency Medical Centre in Plovdiv is sending two teams to Karlovo to provide urgent assistance to evacuated residents in the flooded settlements in the Karlovo region. More floods in Karlovo region and Koprivshtitsa Health..
A partial state of disaster is again declared in the Karlovo region where houses have been flooded in the villages of Rozino, Slatina, Stoletovo, Bogdan and Karavelovo. The torrential rains caused the rupture of a dike on the Stryama river. A..
The Vazov Machine-Building Plants (VMZ) based in Sopot have halted their production processes following heavy rains in the region, the Ministry of Economy said. Warehouses and production workshops have been flooded and electricity has been..
