After 6 months of analyzes and inspections, the Ministry of Environment allowed the completion of the "Struma" highway along the route through the Kresna Gorge. Earlier, the courts also rejected requests of green organisations for a new environmental assessment of the project.
The ministry's decision ends a more than 20-year-long approval process that had delayed the completion of the last 14 km of the highway. The highway leads to Thessaloniki and is part of the route of Pan-European Corridor IV, connecting Central Europe with Greece and the Mediterranean ports. The lack of highway near Kresna creates long traffic jams and leads to frequent road accidents. If construction starts in 2025, completion is expected in 2028.
The Council of Ministers approved a roadmap for the completion of Struma motorway. According to the schedule, an open tender for preliminary design is to be launched in February 2025 for the uncompleted Simitli-Kresna section. The route will be..
The national strike in Belgium, scheduled for 13 February, will lead to flight cancellations from/to Sofia from/to Brussels and Charleroi. Another flight is being diverted towards the Netherlands, BNR’s correspondent in Brussels Anguelina Piskova..
The German province of North Rhine-Westphalia has carried out its first charter flight to deport refugees, bTV reported. The flight included 7 young men from Afghanistan and Syria. They have no criminal records. The deportation is in accordance..
A photograph in the media of Minister of Labour and Social Policy Borislav Gutsanov (Bulgarian Socialist Party), MEP Kristian Vigenin (Bulgarian..
Experts from the Royal Netherlands Police are in Sofia for a series of trainings for their Bulgarian colleagues from the Border Police in the field of..
With 197 votes “for”, the National Assembly unanimously approved, at first reading, a full ban on the import, trade in, supply, distribution and sale,..
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