Environmentalists from all over the country are organizing protests today against the amendments to the Water Act and the regulation on the use of surface waters, proposed by the Minister of Environment and Water in the caretaker government Asen Lichev.
“The amendments aim to mitigate the requirements for building new hydroelectric power stations in protected territories,” Nikolay Grazhdanski from Panega 2021 angling club commented for the BNR. According to Dimitar Kumanov from Balkanka association the amendments proposed legalize the illegally built power stations. “With the exception of three hydroelectric power plants, all others do not have constituted construction rights, and the minister wants this situation to go on forever,” he added.
Daily Mail Online published a letter from former teacher Simon Hill under the title “I’m living the Bulgarian retirement dream”. The retiree and his wife own two properties in Bulgaria. They get better healthcare, enjoy hot summers and ski in the..
Bulgaria and the United States are to expand the scope of their Intergovernmental Agreement for cooperation on the project for the construction of a new unit at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant and the civil nuclear programme. This possibility was..
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Kondov is leading the Bulgarian delegation at the 45th session of the Ministerial Conference of La Francophonie, which will be held on October 3 in Paris, the Foreign Ministry announced. The foreign ministers..
Charges of trading in influence are to be brought against Dzheyhan Ibryamov after decisions were made to strip him of his immunity from prosecution..
If the general elections were to be held at the beginning of October, 6 parties and coalitions would enter the Bulgarian parliament, a Market Links..
What is the noise level of an airplane engine or a hand drill, a normal conversation, the movement of a car at a speed of 60 km/h, in a disco, at a..
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