The number of tourists visiting Bulgaria’s resorts during this year’s summer season will see a 10% increase, Bulgaria’s Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova announced. According to preliminary estimates, nearly 4.6 million foreign tourists will visit Bulgaria in the summer of 2016. Last year their number amounted to 4.2 million. The number of Russian tourists visiting Bulgaria has increased with 20% to 30%. The number of German and French tourists visiting that country increased with 20% and the number of British tourists visiting Bulgaria saw a 10% increase, Minister Angelkova further announced, adding that the new concession contracts which are due to be signed by end 2016 will be under new terms and conditions.
Bulgaria is a factor in the EU and the region that North Macedonia must take into account, Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Georgiev said in an interview with bTV regarding the report of the European Parliament from which references to “Macedonian..
The ministers of agriculture of Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania have signed a joint declaration concerning the agricultural aspects of the amended trade agreement between the EU and Ukraine, the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture..
Bulgaria reacted swiftly to a forest fire near the town of Kriva Palanka, North Macedonia, which is located near the Bulgarian -North Macedonian border. The fire, which broke out on Wednesday afternoon, spread rapidly and threatened the town itself,..
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