The Prosecutor’s Office pressed charges against 10 people in connection with the import of hazardous waste from Italy. As we announced on May 29, Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Krasimir Zhivkov and brothers Plamen and Atanas Bobokov are among them. The Prosecution wants permanent arrest for Deputy Minister Zhivkov and one of the brothers. The second brother will be released on EUR 500,000 bail. A photo containing names of famous Bulgarians, including murdered people, was found in their homes. Large sums of money (EUR 51 million or more) were written next to the names. Zhivkov is suspected in aiding the businessmen in exporting and importing waste to and from Italy.
To insist on seeking a military settlement to the conflict in Ukraine is a losing venture. Europe should support the efforts of the US to find a better solution, said President Rumen Radev at the Chief of Defence Annual Conference in Sofia. At..
“There is no change, Bulgarian troops are not going to be sent to Ukraine,” said PM Rosen Zhelyazkov in a comment about the meeting between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House. “The institutions in..
Bulgaria is to take part in common procurement procedures in the sphere of defence at an EU level, under projects for the acquisition of IRIS-T air defence systems and CAESAR self-propelled howitzers. The Ministry of Defence applied for and..
According to data from Eurostat, Bulgaria has met the final criterion for joining the eurozone, namely price stability, Minister of Finance Temenuzhka..
The Ministers of Agriculture of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have called on the European Commission to restore pre-war import quotas for..
On Tuesday , the minimum temperatures in Bulgaria will be between minus 5 and 0°C, in the northeast - as low as minus 11°C. In Sofia, it will be around..
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