The European Commission expects Bulgaria to give back another 28.7 million euros provided by the EU budget for the construction of guest houses, said the representative of the EC Directorate of Agriculture Christina Borchmann at a hearing in the Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament.
According to the Director General of the EU Anti-Fraud Office, Ville Itala, out of 746 guest houses that received more than 103 million euros of funding, 377 were inspected and none of them met the targets for diversifying economic activities at regional level and job creation. Representatives of the EPP called the case "horrifying". On behalf of the Socialists and Democrats, MEP Tsvetelina Penkova called for accountability and said that no charges had been raised.
The Kalotina border checkpoint on the border with Serbia has already been renovated and has a nearly 30% increased capacity for passenger cars. It has seven lanes each for entering and leaving the country, as well as another eight lanes that can be..
On Wednesday minimum temperatures will be between 2 and 12°C, 5°C in Sofia. Maximum temperatures will be 19-24°C, 21°C in the capital. In the higher plateaus of western Bulgaria there are conditions for frost. The day will be bright and sunny with light..
The second group of 80 Bulgarians who wanted to leave Lebanon has taken off from Beirut to Sofia onboard the governmental Airbus. The plane is expected to land in Sofia after 7 pm. The second group of Bulgarians is ready for evacuation from..
Bulgaria has begun evacuating our fellow citizens who expressed a desire to leave Beirut following Israel's attacks on Lebanon. Some of the Bulgarians..
Some of the Bulgarians in Lebanon were evacuated on a government aircraft flight on Monday evening. The first group, consisting of 89 people, mostly..
On Tuesday it will be sunny and windy in most parts of the country. Clouds will develop in the northeast and along the Black Sea coast, where it may rain..
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