At a meeting in Vienna Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva discussed with Austria’s Federal Minister for the EU, Arts, Culture and Media Gernot Blümel topics related to Brexit, the new multiannual financial framework of the European Union, migration and protection of the EU external borders. Ministers Zaharieva and Blümel voiced satisfaction with the Bulgaria-Austria joint work on the European perspective of the Western Balkans. Ekaterina Zaharieva and Gernot Blümel agreed that the EU perspective of the Western Balkans guarantees stability and prosperity of this region. The topic is an important priority of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and Austria will continue this priority when it takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU after Bulgaria in the second half of 2018, Minister Gernot Blümel assured.
More than 550,000 people received support last year under the European programme Food and Basic Material Assistance – packages of staple foods and nine kinds of sanitary items. Almost 70,000 people from 232 municipalities have availed..
During an operation of the General Directorate Combating Organised Crime under the leadership and supervision of the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office and the National Revenue Agency, a criminal group involved in tax crimes and money..
A list of over 10 unfair trade practices that must be stopped will be handed over to representatives of all parliamentary groups. Among them are high mark-ups, hidden fees of retail chains, inequality between Bulgarian and imported..
Education must make children not only knowledgeable but also good people, said Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev at a meeting with His..
In Plovdiv, experts discuss issues of the food industry, in accordance with the most up-to-date requirements of the Bulgarian and European regulatory..
On February 19th, the day when Bulgarians worldwide commemorate 152 years since the passing of the Apostle of Freedom, Vasil Levski, Bulgaria’s National..
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