Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova met with Director General of the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev within the frameworks of the 16th meeting of the Bulgarian- Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation in Moscow. Minister Petkova and Alexey Likhachev discussed the useful cooperation between Bulgaria and Russia during the fulfillment of the programme aimed at extending the lifespan of the 5th and the 6th units of Kozloduy nuclear power plant. Minister Temenuzhka Petkova also met with Russia’s Minister of Energy Alexander Novak. Russia confirmed at the meeting its readiness to participate in the procedure for construction of the second Bulgarian nuclear power plant in Belene.
The traffic of trucks in the area of the Danube Bridge at the border with Romania is heavy. This situation is expected to continue over the weekend as the trucks that were waiting at the Kapitan Andreevo crossing at the Bulgarian-Turkish border for..
The truck traffic on the Maritsa highway to the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing at the Bulgarian-Turkish border is now normalized. "As of this morning, there are no more queues of trucks standing on the roadway waiting to cross the border," assured..
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, searches have been carried out in Sofia, Burgas, Petrich and Rila in connection with an investigation into alleged fraud with EU funds in the restoration of a church. In 2017, a public tender..
“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she..
The Constitutional Court has opened a case following the request by President Rumen Radev for the amendments to the Constitution, endorsed by the 49 th..
Romania and Bulgaria have a chance to join the Schengen area by land as of January 2025 , Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pinter said after an..
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