Four new companies showed interest in the gas interconnection project between Bulgaria and Greece and would like to book a capacity at the second phase of the market test-the procedure aimed at finding companies which would transit gas and use the capacity of the gas pipe, Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova said at a meeting in Sofia with Greece’s Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Panos Skurletis. The gas interconnection betwen Bulgaria and Greece should start functioning by end 2019. Panos Skurletis expressed his satisfaction with the development of the project and with the fact that new companies showed interest to join the project and transit large quantities of gas.
The ruling GERB party claimed that employers are in favour of a higher VAT rate, but employer organisations denied this, insisting that no such proposal had ever been made. This clarification followed a meeting between GERB leader Boyko Borissov..
The European Commission has disbursed €438.6 million to Bulgaria as part of the second payment under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). On 3 October 2025, the Commission partially approved the payment, stating that Bulgaria "still needs to..
Bulgaria has sufficient quantities of fuel and the 90-day reserves are secured at around 98%, Asen Asenov, Chairman of the State Reserve and Wartime Stocks State Agency, told bTV. The country has a gasoline reserve for 35 days and a diesel reserve..
The Sofia City Court has postponed the extradition case of Igor Grechushkin, the owner of a cargo ship linked to the explosion at the port of Beirut in..
The Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) has proposed the introduction of temporary restrictions on the movement of heavy trucks weighing over 12 tons along..
On Tuesday, minimum temperatures will range from 8 to 13°C , with Sofia seeing around 9°C. Rain is expected across the country, with heavier showers in..
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