TIR trucks formed ten-kilometer queue at the exit of Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint at the Bulgarian-Turkish border, because the systems of the Bulgarian Border Police at that checkpoint stopped functioning at noon. In the past 24 hours over 1,600 freight vehicles crossed the border checkpoint in both directions-to and from Turkey. Last week an average of 1,450-1,500 TIR truck crossed the Bulgaria-Turkey border per day, BNR correspondent Dora Atanasova informs.
The initiative of the British Embassy Sofia ''Ambassador for a Day'' will be held for the eighth consecutive year under the auspices of Vice President Iliana Iotova, announced the press office of Bulgaria’s Head of State. The competition for..
''A Bulgarian ship was detained on suspicion of damaging a telecommunications cable under the Baltic Sea between the Latvian city of Ventspils and the Swedish island of Gotland. An investigation is currently underway in Sweden. We do not have..
Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov is leaving on a three-day visit to the United States, the Ministry of Defense said. Minister Zapryanov will attend a formal handover of Bulgaria's first F-16 Block 70 aircraft at Lockheed Martin’s..
Seven years after buying the Denny ice cream factory in Veliko Tarnovo, London-based multinational Unilever is closing the plant. The company did not give..
By a government decision, as of today an interdepartmental council is being set up for the screening of foreign direct investments. It will examine..
Bulgaria is well advanced in the process of meeting the criteria for joining the Eurozone, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said during..
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