US President Joe Biden has signed the Ukraine Democracy Land Lease Act of 2022. This will allow the U.S. to fund Ukraine's defense against Russian aggression without administrative delay. The act is similar to the Lend Lease Act signed by President Franklin Roosevelt back in 1941, according to which the United States financed its allies, including the USSR, in the fight against Nazism during World War II, Reuters reports.
The European Commission has been planning a 15 billion euro bond issue in order to finance Ukraine over the next 3 months, Politico reported, quoting diplomats in Brussels. The mechanism will be similar to the SURE program used during the coronavirus pandemic.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the establishment of a working group on international payments, as its tasks include determining the conditions for transactions with "unfriendly" nations, TASS reports. Poland and Bulgaria refused to comply with Russian requirements and Moscow cut off gas deliveries for the two countries. Moscow says the same would happen to anyone else who did not comply with the new payment terms.
On Wednesday, minimum temperatures will range between minus 5° C. and zero, lower in the Northeastern parts of the country where they will drop down to minus 7° C., for Sofia around minus 1° C. During the day the weather will be predominantly cloudy..
The magazine of the Bulgarian news agency BTA called LIK dedicates its February issue to the Bulgarian National Radio. The magazine was presented today in the marble lobby of the BNR building. The BNR marked its 90 th anniversary on 25 January..
An analysis of the state and preparedness of the armed forces in 2024 was presented during the Chief of Defence Annual Conference in Sofia. In their statements at the event, both President Rumen Radev and Minister of Defence Atanas Zapryanov..
According to data from Eurostat, Bulgaria has met the final criterion for joining the eurozone, namely price stability, Minister of Finance Temenuzhka..
The Ministers of Agriculture of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have called on the European Commission to restore pre-war import quotas for..
Sofia has taken over the presidency of the most prestigious local government forum in the Balkans – B40. The capital’s mayor Vasil Terziev accepted the..
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