Bulgarian grain producers have launched a protest. With over 50 tractors, farmers from the regions of Ruse, Pleven and Veliko Tarnovo briefly blocked the Ruse-Pleven road near the village of Gorna Studena.
Duty-free imports of wheat and sunflower from Ukraine would lead to bankruptcies of agricultural cooperatives because lower prices make Bulgarian production noncompetitive, the protesters said. They also call for postponing the strategic plan in agriculture, as they would lose vital European subsidies. The protesters took a note of protest to the Minister of Agriculture and to the caretaker government, in which they stated that the warehouses were full of unsold grain and they could not pay their contractors.
The decision to scrap Schengen border checks by land for Bulgaria and Romania has been included as the first item on the agenda of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on Thursday, 12 December. Bulgaria joins Schengen area by air..
Democratic Bulgaria has issued a position stating that an attempt must be made to form a government within the current parliament so as to avoid one more early election and a further deepening of the crisis of parliamentary democracy...
Pensioners whose monthly pension is below the poverty line of 526 leva (EUR 269) will receive a Christmas bonus of 100 leva (EUR 50), said caretaker Minister of Labor and Social Policy Ivaylo Ivanov. The money will be transferred by December 19...
I would like to congratulate the parliament on electing a speaker. Political consultations will begin on Tuesday. First and foremost is the submission and..
President Rumen Radev met with US President-elect Donald Trump during a working visit to France on December 7-9. "With US President-elect Donald Trump,..
Hundreds of customers in Greece have reported fraudulent deliveries of parcels they never ordered. Upon investigation, the authorities discovered that..
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