Bulgaria is to receive within few days the first tranche of the financial assistance agreed with the European Union to the tune of EUR 108 million. The sum will help that country boost protection of the EU external border, representatives of the European Commission told the Bulgarian National Radio. On Thursday the EC will discuss Bulgaria’s request to receive an extra EUR 52 million for that purpose. At a meeting in Bratislava the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker promised Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov that his country would receive an urgent financial assistance from the EU.
Bulgarian beekeepers', farmers' and grain growers' organisations have spoken out against the construction of wind turbines and photovoltaic plants on agricultural land , BNR's correspondent in Dobrich reports. Beekeepers whose hives are located..
The second helicopter to provide emergency medical services by air landed in Bulgaria this afternoon, the Health Ministry said. It will be used at the HEMS regional base in the city of Sliven. The eight air medical teams that will work there have..
Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev today received at the Foreign Ministry Susan Falatko, who arrived in Sofia a few days ago as Charge d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria. A statement from the Foreign Ministry said that during the meeting, Minister..
Household electricity prices will not go up with the planned liberalization of the electricity market for household consumers as of 1 July this year,..
Twenty-five children and young people who survived kidnapping by the terrorists from Hamas in the tunnels under Gaza, or whose parents are still held..
Sunday will be cloudy. A cold atmospheric front from the west will bring rainfalls. In the western mountainous regions of Bulgaria,..
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