Currently Bulgaria does not face a real terrorist threat, Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior Rumiana Bachvarova announced after the anti-terror training held at Plovdiv Airport. The Bulgarian services showed high professionalism. We have to find ways to optimize the overall organization and avoid additional tension among the population, Minister Bachvarova further said. All participants at the anti-terror training showed good coordination and exchanged information in a prompt manner, the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Georgi Kostov said. Nearly 300 people from Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior, the State Agency for National Security, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Healthcare, the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office and the Special Counterterrorism Unit with the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior took part at the training.
The traffic of trucks in the area of the Danube Bridge at the border with Romania is heavy. This situation is expected to continue over the weekend as the trucks that were waiting at the Kapitan Andreevo crossing at the Bulgarian-Turkish border for..
The truck traffic on the Maritsa highway to the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing at the Bulgarian-Turkish border is now normalized. "As of this morning, there are no more queues of trucks standing on the roadway waiting to cross the border," assured..
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