The Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had undertaken checks on the actions of the Sofia Municipality related to preventing the spread of coronavirus in the residential districts Fakulteta, Filipovtsi, Hristo Botev, Dimitar Milenkov and Orlandovtsi inhabited predominantly by people of Roma origin. The Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova was asked to provide information about measures undertaken against large groups of Bulgarian nationals who returned from high-risk countries and disrespected the mandatory quarantine. Mayor Fandakova called on the seniors to stay home. She also told the parents and the young people not to visit public playgrounds and sports grounds. Strict discipline will help up avoid full quarantine, Mayor Fandakova contends.
Overnight it will be mostly clear. Winds will weaken and die down in many areas. In the morning it will be cold, with minimum temperatures between minus 7 and minus 2°C, reaching minus 10°C in the valleys and around minus 9°C in Sofia. Tomorrow will be..
The planned annual maintenance of Unit 6 of Bulgaria's only NPP, Kozloduy, has been completed. The unit was connected to the national grid at 10:07 following an inspection by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. In addition to the repairs made to improve..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would lift its veto and that Bulgaria and Romania would probably become full members of Schengen from the..
“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she..
The Constitutional Court has opened a case following the request by President Rumen Radev for the amendments to the Constitution, endorsed by the 49 th..
Romania and Bulgaria have a chance to join the Schengen area by land as of January 2025 , Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pinter said after an..
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