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Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bulgaria’s sovereign long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at ‘BBB’, with a positive outlook. The agency said that the country’s ratings were based […]
Bulgaria’s road infrastructure agency plans to allow partial traffic on the Strouma Motorway overbridge near the town of Doupnitsa damaged by fire last week, but said that repairs would take […]
Israelis made up the largest group of foreign tourists who visited Plovdiv in June 2019, Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) said. Close to 13 per cent of foreign tourists visiting […]
Plovdiv’s new 2019 Exhibition Hall, built on the site of a previously-demolished art gallery in Gladstone Street, is to open on September 2 with a major exhibition featuring works by […]
Bulgarian state railways BDZ is offering an excursion on a narrow-gauge train, pulled by a Polish-made locomotive dating from 1949, on September 6, the day Bulgaria celebrates Unification Day. The […]
European Commissioners Frans Timmermans and Vera Jourová released a statement marking August 23, the Europe-Wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, saying that “a […]
Bulgaria generated an average of 435kg of municipal waste per person in 2017, below the European Union average, EU statistics agency Eurostat said. The amount of municipal waste generated per person in […]
Summer is finally here in Bulgaria, but what appears not to be here are masses of tourists. Of course, the success or otherwise of a tourist season cannot be measured […]
Payment of one-off aid of 300 leva (about 150 euro) to farmers who have disinfected their smallholding farms after complying with orders to cull domestic pigs will begin after September […]
Police in Sofia and in Plovdiv have begun an investigation following the publication of a photograph of an official car of Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Nikolai, apparently showing it having […]
