Customs officers at the Lesovo border checkpoint have detained a man carrying 23,600 kg of cocaine in a car arriving from Turkey, BTA has reported. The value of the drug is over 1 million euros. The perpetrator is a 23-year-old Bulgarian, with criminal record.
Since the beginning of the year, customs officers have seized more than 120 kilograms of cocaine, about 150 kilograms of marijuana and nearly 100 kilograms of heroin, Svetoslav Vladimirov, director of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate General at the Customs Agency said.
The Bulgaria army will make up for the lack of personnel but not immediately. For 2025, we have money to hire only 1,000 new soldiers, said Defense Minister Atanas Zapryanov before the relevant parliamentary committee. The committee supported the..
Bulgaria remains a net exporter of electricity and one of the pillars of the energy system in Southeast Europe. Electricity exports exceed imports by 3.1% in 2024. According to this indicator, the country ranks 11th in Europe. Among the..
At a ceremony at the Vytautas Magnus University in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas , the rector of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Prof. Georgi Valchev, accepted the rotating presidency of the international university alliance..
In September, Bulgaria was mentioned as a country connected with dangerous food 7 times, indicate data of the European Rapid Alert System for Food and..
The President of the “Renew Europe” group in the European Parliament, Valérie Hayer, called on the European Commission to urgently send a mission to..
The legal heirs of the people who lost their lives during the flooding in the region of Burgas at the beginning of October will receive 15,000 leva (EUR..
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