Three officials from the Executive Agency for Fisheries and Aquaculture, among them its Executive Director Yancho Yanev, have been detained during an operation by the State Agency for National Security and the prosecutor’s office.
The prosecutor’s office specified that an investigation is ongoing in Bourgas and Sofia into EU subsidies received on the basis of falsified data. Many documents were seized during midnight searches of the agency’s offices in Bourgas and Sofia. In the interest of the investigation the scale of misappropriation is not being disclosed.
Restaurateurs from around the country are holding a national meeting today in Veliko Tarnovo to discuss taking measures to protect the differentiated 9% VAT rate for catering establishments, BNR’s correspondent in Veliko Tarnovo Zdravka Maslyankova..
Bulgaria’s Minister of Defence Atanas Zapryanov will take part in the meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels today. The forum will focus on strengthening the alliance’s deterrence and defence capacity, how to distribute responsibilities..
On Thursday, minimum temperatures will range from minus 5° C. to zero, reaching minus 8° C. in the Eastern parts of the country, for Sofia around minus 3° C. During the day there will be clouds over most of the country. Until midday there will be a..
A photograph in the media of Minister of Labour and Social Policy Borislav Gutsanov (Bulgarian Socialist Party), MEP Kristian Vigenin (Bulgarian..
With 197 votes “for”, the National Assembly unanimously approved, at first reading, a full ban on the import, trade in, supply, distribution and sale,..
94% of workers in Bulgaria are dissatisfied with their salary, shows a survey conducted by Podkrepa Confederation of Labor. 91% of the respondents in..
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