The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is to pay a visit to Sofia on 8 April to present, personally, the EU’s assessment of Bulgaria’s recovery and resilience plan, the Bulgarian government has announced.
Together with PM Kiril Petkov she will visit projects included in the plan, in which more than 100 investments and reforms are set down. It envisages digital administrative services, improvement of transparency and competitiveness in public procurement procedures, grants for businesses and financial instruments in support of industrial parks, significant investments in infrastructure, such as high-speed rail transport, the purchase of new trains, the construction of an air transport emergency medical service, access to fast Internet in sparsely populated areas etc.
At a meeting of the caretaker government, Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev confirmed that the Dutch government has agreed with Bulgaria's full accession to Schengen. He said that according to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the benefits of the..
The government of the Netherlands is proposing the kingdom to agree to Bulgaria's accession to Schengen by land, BNR has learned. The cabinet has submitted its proposal to the country's parliament, as required by national..
The Bulgarian Center of New England, the Bulgarian Church of Saint Petka, and the Bulgarian School of Sts. Cyril and Methodius are joining forces to raise funds for an addition and expansion to the current building in Billerica...
The coalition BSP-United Left, which placed fifth in the parliamentary elections held on October 27, is starting a series of negotiations to gather..
North Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Timčo Mucunski was heard in the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. He..
By order of the Minister of Education and Science, Prof. Galin Tsokov, January 3, 2025, has been declared a non-school day for all schools in Bulgaria...
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