“We are hoping Bulgaria will become a full member of Schengen by land at the end of 2024,” Minister of Transport and Communications Georgi Gvozdeykov said in an interview with public service TV BNT. “It will be synchronized with entry into the Eurozone. “Schengen opens up the prospect of a high level of economic development and gives rapid access to goods and people. Speedier traffic will raise the economic indicators,” Minister Gvozdeykov said. “At the moment border capacity is overstrained, the control regime has to be facilitated but implemented strictly,” Georgi Gvozdeykov said further.
Meanwhile, the National Audit Office issued a recommendation to the transport minister to give ports Varna and Burgas under concession. The document reads that the state-run port operators are temporary and privileged and do not pay fees for the use of public state property.
Nine people aged between 35 and 48 have been arrested in special police operations by the Directorate General for Combating Organised Crime against sexual exploitation of children. Two of those arrested had used false identities to contact young..
Construction of the National Children's Hospital will begin in June next year , interim Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev said at a briefing. The hospital will have 26 wards and about 400 beds . It will provide complex care for young patients. "The..
A fire broke out in the Varna office of a party which was represented in the last National Assembly and which is contesting the forthcoming elections on 27 October. The premises, located in a building in the centre of the city, were completely burnt..
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Sofia by train, eyewitnesses report on social media. Thunberg was spotted walking along Sofia’s..
Caretaker Minister of the Environment and Water, Petar Dimitrov, says he does not think there was a problem in the location of the air..
A Bulgarian siphoned 2.2 million pounds from the money of British taxpayers, the "Sunday Telegraph" reports. The scheme involved flying..
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