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Bulgaria to ask the European Union for help to repair the damage caused by the recent floods

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Bulgaria will ask the European Union for help in order to repair the damage caused by the recent floods, caretaker Minister of Interior Ivan Demerdzhiev said. Currently, Bulgaria is taking emergency measures, Minister Demerdzhiev added. “The government’s attention is now focused on doing everything that is within its competence. Next, our primary task will be to attract this additional financial resource”, Minister Demerdzhiev noted. 

For his part, caretaker Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Yavor Gechev announced that checks will be carried out to ascertain whether there was illegal logging and whether illegal logging is also the cause of the calamity.



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