SOFIA, Nov. 30 (Reuters) – Bulgaria expects a budget surplus of 570 million levs ($ 328.72 million) in the first 11 months of the year, or 0.4% of economic output , as the economy recovers and tax collection improves, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. The Balkan country is targeting a budget deficit of 3.6% […]
Denmark-based Eurowind Energy CEO Jens Rasmussen said the joint venture with Renalfa in Bulgaria will install 2 GW of renewable energy capacity in the Balkan country, starting with a 250 MW solar power plant in the province of Yambol. Eurowind Energy has set up a joint venture called EURA Energy with Bulgarian investment company Renalfa […]
While the percentage of complete pollination in Western Europe is generally around 70 percent, as in Norway, it is catastrophically low in parts of Eastern Europe. Figures in Bulgaria show less than 25 percent received two doses Our world in data. The country has the lowest vaccination rate and the highest covid-19 death rate in […]
In one of the previous articles, I provided you with a short guide on what to expect when studying in Bulgaria. A true picture of the higher education system in this South Eastern European country must have been painted in your mind. What remains to tell you in more detail are the options available to […]
There were tensions on the night of November 25 as a small group of ultra-nationalists attempted to disrupt a protest in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, against violence against women. According to eyewitness accounts, the group arrived at the well-attended demonstration carrying a Bulgarian flag and a banner saying that the campaign against violence against […]
A tragic car accident occurred on the roads of Bulgaria has been around the world because 46 people died from burns, including 12 minors, after the bus in which they were traveling will crash and then I know set on fire, so many passengers were trapped. Most of the victims were from North Macedonia, where […]
Dressed in a floral-patterned tunic and baggy pants, her hair covered in a colorful scarf, Sabie Djikova loaded a dozen bottles – 45 pounds of milk – into a backpack and handbag, the hoisted onto her narrow shoulders and walked down the unpaved road to the nearby train station. At 65, she wears less than […]
At least 45 people died when a bus caught fire and crashed into a highway in western Bulgaria on Tuesday, officials said. The bus had North Macedonian plates, according to the Bulgarian Interior Ministry, and local media reported that most of the victims were from that country. Nikolai Nikolov, head of the fire safety service […]
A bus carrying tourists to North Macedonia crashed and caught fire Tuesday morning in western Bulgaria, killing at least 45 people, including a dozen children, authorities said. DNA tests were underway to identify the victims. The bus apparently tore through a guardrail on a highway, although authorities said the cause was still under investigation. Photos […]
North Macedonia has declared three days of national mourning after 46 people, including 12 children, were killed on a tourist bus in Bulgaria. Calling the incident a “huge tragedy”, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev described how seven of the passengers only survived by jumping out of the vehicle when a sudden explosion ignited it. “[They] broke […]
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, a popular figure in the fight against corruption in the poorest country in the European Union, won a comfortable re-election on Sunday. “Bulgaria is breaking the deadlock,” said the former fighter pilot after polls estimated his share of the vote at 66%. Bulgarians voted “for change, for a break with corruption, […]
A lawyer representing investors defrauded by the notorious crypto scam Onecoin has urged the Bulgarian authorities to follow up on the case, claiming that the “biggest pyramid scheme in the world” is still operating out of the country. In a petition addressed to the Bulgarian constitutional mediator, Jonathan Levy accuses the authorities in Sofia of […]
Minutes of a general meeting of shareholders 19.11.2021 09:13:39 (local time) Company: Industrial Holding Bulgaria PLC-Sofia (IHB)The extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Industrial Holding Bulgaria on November 18, 2021 adopted the following resolutions:– Adoption of a decision to reduce the company’s capital, on the basis of art. 200, ch. 2 in conjunction with art. […]
Receive instant alerts for news on your actions. Claim your 1-week free trial for Street Insider Premium here. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, November 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Velocity Minerals Ltd. (TSX.V: VLC) (“Speed“or the”Society“) announces that it has delivered an option exercise notice (the”Exercise notice”) To Gorubso-Kardzhali AD (“Gorubso“) for the Nadezhda property (the”Goods“), which […]
SOFIA (Bulgaria), November 16 (SeeNews) – Diversified Bulgarian group Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH] indicated that the capital increase of 2 million levs (1.2 million dollars / 1.0 million euros) of its wholly-owned subsidiary Doverie-Invest was entered in the register of public limited companies on November 12. The share capital of Doverie-Invest now stands at 7 […]
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Kiril Petkov and Assen Vassilev, leaders of the new Bulgarian centrist party “We continue the change”, react after the first exit polls in the parliamentary and presidential elections, in Sofia, Bulgaria, on November 14, 2021. REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov / File Photo Register now for FREE and unlimited access to Reuters.com Register SOFIA, Nov. 16 […]
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A doctor treats patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the intensive care unit (ICU) of Pirogov Hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 15, 2021. REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov Register now for FREE and unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Nov. 16 (Reuters) – More than 50% more people died in Bulgaria than usual in September, official […]
Bulgaria is a developing country in south-eastern Europe and enjoys a delightful geographical location with a mixture of many cultures; it borders Romania, Greece, Turkey, North Macedonia and Serbia. Bulgarian culture has therefore been strongly influenced by its own history and the pervasive cultures of the neighborhood. Among other things, the country is striving to […]
SOFIA, Nov. 14 (Reuters) – Three men died in a fire that broke out on Sunday in a COVID-19 ward at a hospital in the town of Sliven in southern Bulgaria, officials said. The fire, which was quickly extinguished, broke out at around 00:40 GMT and affected a room. Six patients in adjacent rooms were […]
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Boyko Borissov, former Bulgarian Prime Minister and leader of the center-right GERB party, looks on after meeting with supporters in the town of Teteven, Bulgaria on November 10, 2021. Photo taken on November 10, 2021. REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov Register now for FREE and unlimited access to Reuters.com Register COVID-19, energy prices and corruption at […]
Larger presence in Eastern Europe: VTG launches new company in Bulgaria Hamburg / Sofia, 08. November 2021 – VTG Rail Logistics Bulgaria EOOD opens its doors – Liubomir Illiev and Stelios Archontakis jointly lead the operation – Opening of an office in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital VTG Rail Logistics has strengthened its presence in the […]
Students in 15 of Bulgaria’s 28 districts will continue to study online until another 200,000 non-intrusive tests for Covid-19 arrive, the education ministry said on November 9. Bulgaria has introduced a system where pupils in grades 1 through 4 can resume learning in person, while being tested twice a week. The test is based on […]
Foreign police is absent from this election campaign. In addition, voters hardly ask for candidates on this subject, except for relations with North Macedonia. Representatives of “Démocratique Bulgaria“,” We continue the Change “, GERB,” BSP for Bulgaria“and” Get up BG! We’re Coming! â€Agree with this conclusion in probably the only public conversation to date on […]
Around 60 million BGN (30.7 million euros) paid in advance for the construction of lot 5 of the Bulgarian Hemus highway was transferred to front companies and then exported from the country in bags and sacks, a Acting Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov said on November 5. The day before, the arrest of more than 10 […]
SOFIA (Bulgaria), Nov. 5 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria-based private equity firm BlackPeak Capital, through the BlackPeak Southeast Europe Growth Equity Fund, has purchased a minority stake in the Romanian-based meat substitute company of Verdino Green Foods plants, Verdino said. The capital provided should allow Verdino to accelerate its growth and support its international expansion, Romanina said […]
AFP, STARA ZAGORA, Bulgaria Nikolay Dinev, 34, worked as a coal miner for 12 years, but now faces an uncertain future as an EU-wide exit from coal is discussed at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. “It will be a disaster … The closure is inevitable,” Dinev told Agence France-Presse on the outskirts of […]
The country becomes 174e member of the World Bank’s Fund for the Poorest SOFIA, November 3, 2021 – Bulgaria today signed the statutes of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), joining a global coalition of development partners committed to accelerating the fight against extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity in the poorest countries in […]
US F-15E Strike Eagles returned to Borcea Air Base in Romania and Graf Ignatievo Air Base in Bulgaria for the second phase of forward dispersions in support of Operation Castle Forge, a multinational training event that demonstrates the agile combat job. “Castle Forge is designed to exercise the agility and rapid movement of air power […]
US F-15E Strike Eagles returned to Borcea Air Base in Romania and Graf Ignatievo Air Base in Bulgaria for the second phase of forward dispersions in support of Operation Castle Forge, a multinational training event that demonstrates the agile combat job. “Castle Forge is designed to exercise the agility and rapid movement of air power […]
U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles returned to Borcea Air Base in Romania and Graf Ignatievo Air Base in Bulgaria for the second phase of forward dispersals supporting Operation Castle Forge, a multinational training event that demonstrates the agile combat employment. “Castle Forge is designed to exercise the agility and rapid movement of air power to forward […]
A Bulgarian LGBTQ rights group said the leader of an ultra-nationalist political party running for president carried out an attack on their offices and community center on Saturday. The Bilitis Foundation in a series of tweets said that “a group of about 10 men and women stormed” the Rainbow Hub, a community center it operates […]
SOFIA (Bulgaria), November 1 (SeeNews) – Electricity grid operator CEZ Distribution Bulgaria [BUL:CEZD] said its self-sustaining net profit fell to 27.1 million lev ($ 16.3 million / 13.9 million euros) during the period January-September 2021, from 37.1 million lev. during the same period of last year. CEZ Distribution Bulgaria’s expenses reached 260.4 million Lev in […]