The European Commission will announce next month the amount under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), the payment of which may be withheld if the required conditions are not fulfilled.
"We have sent Bulgaria a letter detailing the amount in question, which will not be paid unless the condition relating to the Anti-Corruption Commission is met. There is a one-month deadline for a response. If we then determine that this condition has not been met, payment will be withheld for a further six months," said the EC spokesperson Maciej Berestecki.
Berestecki dismissed any links between a Renew Europe letter to the European Commission regarding the arrest of Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev, who is accused of being involved in a bribery scheme, and the assessment of Recovery Plan funds. They said the two cases were entirely unrelated.
Plovdiv will offer concerts, bazaars and an ice park for the Christmas and New Year holidays to its citizens and guests, the municipality has announced. Mayor Kostadin Dimitrov will light the Christmas tree in front of the Plovdiv Municipality..
On Thursday, minimum temperatures will range from 3° to 19°C, with eastern areas reaching 15–19°C and Sofia around 6°C. The day will be cloudy with widespread rain. Heavy rainfall is expected in western regions overnight and in central and southern..
“Solutions for achieving peace in Ukraine must be based on fundamental principles of the UN Charter, such as sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.” This was stated by Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev at the informal video..
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