At its regular weekly session, the Council of Ministers in Sofia decided that the deadline for searching and exploration of oil and natural gas in “Block 1-21 Khan Asparuh” would be extended by two years at the request of the licensees - Total,..
Plastic pollution of the Bulgarian Black Sea is similar to that of the Baltic Sea and the Northwest Mediterranean - some of the world's most polluted water basins. This is what a scientific study of the pollution in the sea shows. Authors of the..
Bulgaria’s coastal city of Varna will have its own industrial and technology park. It will be built under a project of the Varna Municipality and the Industrial Zones national campaign. Varna Municipality provides a property with direct outlet on the..
On 31 October the six Black Sea countries, Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine mark the International Black Sea Action Day. On this day in 1996, the Black Sea Strategic Action Plan was signed comprising measures for..
Tension occurred again this week between the ruling parties and the opposition in relation to the topic about military presence of NATO in the Black Sea. Citing circulated by international agencies allegations that NATO was launching new multinational..
Abrasion is among the elements of geological danger along the Black Sea coast, Prof. Plamen Ivanov of the Institute of Geology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has told the Bulgarian National Radio. The destructive action of..
A national naval exercise named "Breeze 2017" with international participation is held in the territorial waters, the adjacent zone and the exclusive economic zone of Bulgaria in the period July 14 to 23. More than 1,700 military from the naval forces..
The regular US-Ukraine exercise Sea Breeze will be take place as of Monday until July 22 with the participation of armed forces from 17 countries, including Bulgaria, the US European command has announced. The exercise will be joined by land..
The sea water is cleaner this year than it was last year, next year it will be even cleaner, said Bulgarian Environment Minister Neno Dimov. Minister Dimov added that the quality of seawater in the Black Sea is improving as new wastewater..
A meeting was held at the Council of Ministers in Sofia to discuss preparations for the forthcoming summer tourist season. Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy Valery Simeonov said that the government will support and promote legal tourism..
