Forty families living nearby the site of today’s explosion in Hitrino were evacuated so far, the pres-center of the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior informs. Over 50 houses and public buildings in the village of Hitrino, Northeast Bulgaria, suffered heavy damages after Saturday’s cargo train blast. There isn't any immediate danger for the rest of the population. The competent institutions started to pull some of the cisterns away from the village. The Bulgarian State Railways sent cranes to lift the cisterns which derailed near the Hitrino train station this morning.
Hristo Stoichkov has been appointed the Sports Tourism Ambassador for the World Tourism Organization (UN Tourism). This became clear at an official meeting in the Council of Ministers between Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, Minister of Tourism..
The second payment from the EU under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of 653 million euros will certainly be refused, even though Bulgaria has implemented 85% of the reforms undertaken to this stage. This was stated at a briefing by Deputy..
The situation with freedom in the world is deteriorating, and authoritarianism is increasing, according to the annual ranking of the non-governmental organization "Freedom House" , which monitors the state of democracy around the world. The countries..
The effects of the protests against supermarkets are being felt, Agriculture Minister Georgi Tahov said in Plovdiv, where he was attending a national..
In 2022, 14.7% of workers in the EU were low-wage earners . By definition, low-wage earners are those who earn two-thirds or less of the average gross..
A serious restrictive and even repressive attitude among Bulgarian society on the current issues of school education and upbringing is shown by an..
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