Bulgaria’s Minister of Environment and Water Neno Dimov has been detained for 24 hours, the Prosecutor’s Office has announced. Earlier, Minister Dimov was interrogated for several hours by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office. Searches were held in the Ministry of Environment and Water in connection with the water crisis in Pernik and the import of waste, mainly from Italy to Bulgaria. Neno Dimov was taken from the building of the Environment Ministry with a vehicle of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office. I am providing assistance to the investigation, Minister Dimov said before he went inside the vehicle. Premier Boyko Borissov said that Minister Dimov’s resignation will be discussed at a coalition council.
On Saturday it will be mostly cloudy with light rain, which in some places in the northern regions of Bulgaria will be mixed with snow. There will be almost no precipitation in Southeast Bulgaria. In the morning hours in many places in the plains and..
Bulgarian beekeepers', farmers' and grain growers' organisations have spoken out against the construction of wind turbines and photovoltaic plants on agricultural land , BNR's correspondent in Dobrich reports. Beekeepers whose hives are located..
The second helicopter to provide emergency medical services by air landed in Bulgaria this afternoon, the Health Ministry said. It will be used at the HEMS regional base in the city of Sliven. The eight air medical teams that will work there have..
A serious restrictive and even repressive attitude among Bulgarian society on the current issues of school education and upbringing is shown by an..
Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev today received at the Foreign Ministry Susan Falatko, who arrived in Sofia a few days ago as Charge d'Affaires of the U.S...
Friday will be mostly cloudy. Fog will cover the lowlands before midday. It will rain in some places, especially in southern Bulgaria. Minimum..
Scattered showers
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