Miners and energy workers from Stara Zagora region temporarily blocked traffic between Radnevo and Stara Zagora and the main road to Kazanlak and Nova Zagora.
The demands of the protesters include abolishing carbon emission payments from coal plants in the Maritsa East Basin until the construction of a plant for capturing the emissions. This will give competitiveness to electricity produced by coal plants. They also insist on the reclamation of the lands in the open-pit mining complex, with one part becoming agricultural land and the rest a forest fund, as per the concession agreement. The third request is not to unleash electricity prices from July 1, as the price increase would be unbearable for households.
Bulgaria was officially designated among the EU countries at risk of migratory pressure, BNR’s correspondent in Brussels Anguelina Piskova reports, citing the European Commission’s first European Annual Asylum and Migration Report. The document is..
President Rumen Radev has vetoed some of the amendments to the Defence and Armed Forces Act of the Republic of Bulgaria adopted on 30 October this year, the presidential press service has announced. In his motives the president points out that..
On Wednesday, minimum temperatures will range from 4 to 9°C across the country, reaching around 2°C in Sofia. The wind will ease and fog will settle in lowland and basin areas. Later during the day, cloud cover will decrease to mostly sunny in many..
On Saturday, the lowest temperatures will be between 0 and 5°C; in Sofia - it will be around 0°C. During the day it will be mostly..
The Bulgarian Ministry of Defense is requesting a postponement of one of the large payments under the contract for the second F-16 to 2028. Defense..
Great Britain has issued a special license on Friday that allows businesses to continue to work with two Bulgarian subsidiaries of sanctioned Russian oil..
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