Teams of the Bulgarian and the Romanian Traffic Police have launched joint inspections as of August 1. Inspections take place mainly in border areas selected on the basis of estimates for intense traffic of Bulgarian and Romanian vehicles.
The joint checks aim to increase road safety. The Traffic Police teams will be working to catch violations like wrong overtaking, use of alcohol and drugs. They will also monitor the use of seatbelts, the validity of driver documents, technical condition of vehicles, etc. Police cars are equipped with video and audio recording devices.
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The Finance Ministry has confirmed that Minister Petkova will participate in the Eurogroup meeting on 17..
Minimum temperatures on Monday will be between minus 4 and 1°C. In Sofia it will be around minus 3°C. The mercury will hover between -3 and 0 °C in the north. Maximum temperatures in southern Bulgaria will be between 2 and 7°C. In the capital it will..
The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It was organised by the movement "For a Free Russia" - an association of Russian immigrants in..
Bulgaria’s Premier Rosen Zhelyazkov convened an emergency meeting at the Council of Ministers on Saturday dedicated to the issue of food prices...
Kristiyan Vladov and Stefan Kyurkchiev of the Plovdiv Museum of Natural History are working on a project to bring live fish from the southern Arctic..
Bulgaria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georg Georgiev, participated in a working breakfast dedicated to addressing illegal migration and its..
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