“The European Commission will probe Bulgaria after a Russian oil firm (Lukoil – editorial note) in the country exploited a loophole in EU sanctions to raise €1 billion for the Kremlin’s war chest,” writes Politico, as quoted by the BNR correspondent in Brussels Anguelina Piskova.
Politico has also published an analysis in which it writes “…Bulgaria has likely exported almost 3 million barrels of Russian-origin oil products by sea from March to July this year alone”, and cites two examples – one of a tanker with 265,000 barrels of high-sulfur fuel oil which loaded at Burgas and unloaded at the port of Rotterdam, and the second – a tanker reloaded near Malta and redirected to Florida.
“We're paying attention to it and we've asked the Bulgarians to explain themselves,” said a senior Commission official, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, Politico writes.
On Saturday minimum temperatures will range from 5° C. to 10° C., in parts of the lowlands and valleys 1-4° C., for Sofia around 4° C. The day will be sunny but also windy. Maximum temperatures 20-25° C., for Sofia around 20° C. In the evening the..
On 7 November, Bulgarian public service TV BNT is marking 65 years since it was founded, BNT has announced. “BNT is a symbol of trust, of high-value and sustainable tendencies. It is our public mission to preserve the Bulgarian identity with a..
The numerous reports of vote manipulation, of rigging ballots, of adding votes, of vote-buying, of coercion and controlled voting which have been sweeping over the public domain following the election for parliament, call for an immediate answer by..
Slavi Trifonov, leader of There Is Such a People (ITN) declared he would sign the declaration of We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria (PP/DB),..
The recordings from 65 cameras, which streamed the counting of the ballots on election night online, have gone missing, according to a report by the..
We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria (PP/DB), which came second in the 27 October parliamentary election, sent the other political forces to be..
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