Trakia motorway, the Pass of the Republic and road section in the region of Gurkovo of the Sofia-Burgas road south of the Balkan Range remain closed to traffic.
The protesting miners and energy workers from Maritsa Iztok coal mine are adamant they will keep the roads closed until the government withdraws the territorial plans for the just transition of the coal mining areas submitted to the European institutions.
“It is not the plans that are closing down the power plants, as they imagine. The plans are there to help when the market shuts down the plants, when they will not be able to work because there is cheaper electricity coming from other sources,” Prime Minister Niklay Denkov said. He once again invited the protesters to come to the Council of Ministers, so an “in-depth discussion” can take place, as many of them do not comprehend the substance of the plans and how they can help them.
''The second evacuation flight from Lebanon will be carried out today around noon, provided the circumstances are favorable'', caretaker Premier Dimitar Glavchev said before inaugurating the reconstructed border checkpoint “Kalotina”. The flight crew..
Bulgaria’s caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Kondov met in the United States with John Bass, Acting Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. The two countries agreed that the next session of the strategic dialogue between Bulgaria and..
300 women and 96 men can share memories of Bulgaria from the last 100 years. The highest number of centenarians is in Sofia, indicate data from the National Statistical Institute on the occasion of October 1- the International Day of Older Persons...
Bulgaria has begun evacuating our fellow citizens who expressed a desire to leave Beirut following Israel's attacks on Lebanon. Some of the Bulgarians..
Some of the Bulgarians in Lebanon were evacuated on a government aircraft flight on Monday evening. The first group, consisting of 89 people, mostly..
On Tuesday it will be sunny and windy in most parts of the country. Clouds will develop in the northeast and along the Black Sea coast, where it may rain..
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