The construction of Struma motorway section between the towns of Sandanski and Kresna is two months ahead deadlines, engineer Temenuzhka Filipova from the Road Infrastructure Agency told BNR. We are doing daily control on the quality of the construction works, engineer Filipova pointed out. No other motorway in Bulgaria was subject to such monitoring before. Four laboratories are testing the quality of the materials used in the construction of Struma motorway, Temenuzhka Filipova went on to say. This section of Struma motorway is 24 kilomneters long and 29 meters wide. The cost of this section was estimated at EUR 118 million and construction works have to end in 2019.
“Five people from the parliamentary group are going to be “torn apart” during the voting for a cabinet but will, most probably, not give their support,” Ivelin Mihaylov, one of the founders of Velichie party said for the BNR. GERB-SDS..
In an analysis of the pension system in Bulgaria, the International Monetary Fund urges the country to raise pensions by raising social security contributions and doing away with the maximum insurable earnings. According to the analysis, pensions in..
Bulgarian tour operators and travel agents are hoping the new parliament will reconsider the decision to revert to the higher VAT (20%) for the industry as of 1 July. They are insisting that tourist packages be subject to 9% VAT until the end of..
Bulgaria’s national team of mathematics put up an excellent performance at the Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad. Six Bulgarian students returned from..
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev handed the first cabinet-forming mandate to Rossen Zhelyazkov who is the prime minister-designate of the largest..
On Tuesday the weather will be sunny and hot over most of the country. Clouds will form over Western and Central Bulgaria in the afternoon and there..
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