“The price of petrol should fall but the big players are making a big profit at a time of crisis,” Nastimir Ananiev from the ruling We Continue the Change said for the BNR. Ananiev demanded that the Commission on Protection of Competition check “whether there is a cartel and why fuel prices are not falling”.
The socialists from the Bulgarian Socialist Party demanded that the council of the ruling coalition discuss a reduction of VAT on food and medicines. The other partners are against, and want the 20% VAT rate to remain, and that the government redistribute the money from the tax to assist the people affected.
The Ministry of Finance said they would announced a new package of anti-crisis measures in the sphere of energy by the end of the week.
President Rumen Radev met with Bulgarians living and working in Singapore during his visit to the Asian country on November 22-24. There are an estimated 400 Bulgarians living in Singapore. "Our diaspora in Singapore occupies a very special..
The weather on Saturday will be mostly sunny over most of Bulgaria. There will be considerable clouds in eastern Bulgaria before midday and rainfall is expected in the eastern areas, but precipitation will stop also there and clouds will break...
Authorities in Greece will deploy more police officers at the Promakhon checkpoint on the border with Bulgaria to speed up the processing of documents for people and vehicles crossing the border, reports BNR's correspondent in Greece, Katya Peeva...
“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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