No injuries reported in Cessna business jet runway excursion at Bourgas Airport
Operations at the Bourgas Airport on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast were briefly interrupted on August 31 after a Turkish-registered Cessna
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Unemployment in Bulgaria in July 2018 was 4.8% – Eurostat
Unemployment in Bulgaria in July 2018 was 4.8 per cent, unchanged from June and down from 6.2 per cent in
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Bulgaria’s rainy June and July 2018 expected to negatively impact grape, wheat harvests
Critically low yields of grapes and poor production quality are expected this year by vine growers throughout Bulgaria, mainly because
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Bulgaria completes fence at border with Romania against African swine fever
Construction of a 133km fence at the land border with Romania, to prevent African swine fever entering Bulgaria, has been
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Measles: Children under 1 should not be taken to Greece, Romania or Serbia – Bulgarian professor
Children younger than a year should not be taken to Greece, Romania or Serbia, given the increased incidence of measles,
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EP’s budget committee approves 34M euro in EU aid to Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Lithuania
EU Solidarity Fund (EUSF) aid worth 34 million euro, to support reconstruction in Greece, Poland, Lithuania and Bulgaria following natural
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After Svoge bus disaster, Bulgaria plans new road safety body
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov pledged on August 29 that there would be “no protection and no help for anyone”
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Former Turkish baths in Plovdiv, believed to date from 17th century, demolished
The remains of a former Turkish bath in the Kurshiyaka area of Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have been bulldozed. The
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Bulgarian state grants 375 leva one-off aid to relatives to Svoge bus crash victims
The Bulgarian government is granting 375 leva (about 191 euro) one-off aid each from the social assistance fund to the
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