Regarding the redirecting of EUR 20 million /BGN 40 million/ from the Operational Programme ‘Regions in Growth’ for combatting Covid-19 and mitigating the consequences of the pandemic, Deputy Minister of Regional Development Denitsa Nikolova explained, in an interview for the BNR, that the money will be used by the Ministry of Health to purchase 317 ventilators, 72,000 tests, 105,000 rapid tests, laboratory consumables and protective masks.
The procedure is underway for purchasing two ambulance helicopters. The redirecting of funds will not affect the implementation of projects already launched under the programme, Deputy Minister Nikolova said.
The regional governor of Dobrich, Rumen Rusev, has sent the decision to hold a local referendum on the construction of wind farms back for further discussion. The Dobrich Municipal Council had decided that the local referendum should be held with..
Twenty-eight parties and 11 coalitions have submitted documents to take part in the early elections on 27 October . Campaigning for the seventh parliamentary elections in four years begins on 27 September. The Central Electoral Commission registered..
Overnight, from west to east, the rain showers will stop and the clouds will break up and decrease. Thursday will be sunny in western and central Bulgaria . Visibility will be temporarily reduced and in the morning hours there will be low clouds in..
Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov has cancelled the air show at the Graf Ignatievo Air Base after an L-39 ZA military transport plane crashed, the..
The Supreme Administrative Court rejected the appeal of the coalition around Ahmed Dogan - "Democracy, Rights and Freedoms - DPS"..
At a Bulgarian-Chinese business forum in Sofia, President Rumen Radev pointed out the advantages of the business environment in..
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