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The old year, 2016, refused to go without causing yet another problem. This time it hit Trakiya Highway, between Sofia and Burgas. Because of heavy snowfall, snowdrifts and ice, hundreds […]
The Trakiya Motorway from Sofia to Bourgas is open throughout, Bulgaria’s Road Infrastructure Agency said in the late afternoon on December 31, ...
“I promise everyone will greet the New Year wherever they’re heading,” Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov wrote on Facebook on ...
Bulgarian military personnel from the town of Sliven and from the Black Sea city of Bourgas used 17 special machines to join in efforts to clear Traki ...
Belgian based KBC Group (KBC) and the National Bank of Greece (NBG), the Greek parent company of United Bulgarian Bank (UBB) reached agreement on December 30 2016 for KBC to […]
Severe weather conditions that caused snowdrifts on motorways and various roads in eastern Bulgaria prompted authorities to urge motorists to avoid the Bourgas region on December 31. The situation remained […]
The Swiss daily “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” has published a very interesting article on the appalling situation of Roma in Bulgaria. The author interviewed integrated Roma, including a micro-biologist from Sliven […]
This year, almost all winter holidays are weekends, including January 1st. But Bulgarians are lucky, since their parliament just gave them January 2nd. This applies if January 1st is a […]
There is no specific information of a terrorist threat in Bulgaria ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations, Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova said on December 30. At the same time, the […]
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first 11 months of 2016 was 3.47 billion leva, or 3.8 per cent of this year’s estimated gross domestic product, […]
