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Romanian Vice Premier requests postponement of Danube Bridge repairs because of summer tourist season

Danube Bridge 1 linking Giurgiu in Romania with Ruse in Bulgaria
Photo: BGNES

Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, who is also Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, has asked the Bulgarian authorities to postpone the repair of Danube Bridge 1 at Giurgiu on the Romanian side and Ruse on the Bulgarian to autumn, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports. At a press conference in Buzău, Romania, Vice Premier Grindeanu said that his Bulgarian counterpart had promised to consider the request so as not to impede the heavy summer traffic.

Four police officers from Poland and two from Romania will be posted in the resorts in the vicinity of Varna in the summer of 2022, Atanas Mihov, director of police in Varna said before the start of the public and consultative council on tourism. They will be working as part of Bulgarian police teams, and will act as interpreters when the need arises.



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