“Today, the so-called human traffickers have declared war on the Bulgarian state and the Bulgarian state will respond to this challenge with all its might,” Acting Interior Minister Ivan Demerjiev said Thursday, commenting on the crash that killed two policemen, after a bus driver carrying irregular migrants rammed the bus into their patrol car in […]
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Bulgaria: Talks with Gazprom to restore gas flows are inevitable
Bulgaria should open a round of talks with Russian state energy giant Gazprom to resume natural gas flows that have been cut since April, the Balkan country’s acting energy minister said on Monday, after the government pledged to secure the necessary quantities ahead of winter, as reported by the Reuters agency. Rosen Hristov did not […]
Bulgaria: Estimate for a 50% increase in tourists this summer
Foreign tourists in Bulgaria this summer are expected to be 50% more than in the same period last year, said Rumen Draganov, director of the Institute for Analysis and Utilization of Tourism (IAAT). “We have not yet reached the record levels of 2019, when July and August each had more than 2 million foreign tourists. […]
Bulgaria: Registered unemployment in July remained unchanged compared to June
The level of registered unemployment in Bulgaria in July 2022 remained unchanged from June and was again at a record low of 4.2%, according to administrative statistics of the Employment Agency released today. On an annual basis, unemployment decreased by 0.8 percentage points. Registered unemployed in July were 139,215, or 416 more than in June […]
Bulgarian Navy to conduct two multinational exercises by end of 2022
The Bulgarian Navy will conduct two larger exercises with international participation by the end of 2022 with Varna as the host port, the commander of the Bulgarian Navy, Rear Admiral Kirill Mihailov, announced today at VTA. One of the exercises, codenamed Poseidon, will be conducted by the Bulgarian and Romanian navies but is open to […]
Bulgarian research ship will set sail for its first Antarctic mission at the end of the year
The Bulgarian research ship “Saints Cyril and Methodius” will set sail for its first mission to Antarctica at the end of the year, the head of the Naval Academy Boyan Mednikarov announced today. This statement was made at the opening of a photo exhibition organized by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute and the Union of Young […]
“Alliance” of Greece – Bulgaria on the railway, to revive the Rail TKABVR Project
By Fotis Fotinos Is the project of the railway connection of the ports of Northern Greece and Bulgaria being revived? This seems to be the case, since the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is hiring a legal advisor for the establishment of a Greek-Bulgarian company. The specific project, which has been named “Rail TKABVR Project” […]
Bulgaria: The whole state supports the completion of the Greek-Bulgarian interconnector natural gas pipeline
“The entire Bulgarian state supports the contractor of the gas interconnector between Greece and Bulgaria to ensure the completion of the project,” Bulgaria’s Acting Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Ivan Syskov said today. The Bulgarian minister delivered a greeting at the start of the meeting with the companies involved in the construction of […]
Bulgaria: The works in the Kresna gorge near the Greek border have been stopped after the Commission’s letter
Former Deputy Prime Minister for Climate Policy and Minister of Environment and Water Borislav Sadov said today on his Facebook account that he has stopped the implementation of projects in the Kresna Gorge, following the letter he received from the European Commission on July 27. The Kresna Gorge is part of the Struma (Strymonas) highway […]
Bulgaria: Ministry of Education approves 1.64 million leva for Bulgarian Sunday schools abroad
The Ministry of Education and Science has published on its website the list of projects approved to finance 141 Bulgarian Sunday schools abroad. Funding totaling BGN 1,644,000 under the National Bulgarian Language and Culture Program will be given to 11,727 Bulgarian students in the new school year 2022/2023. A total of 58 Sunday schools in […]