At a roundtable at the University of Sofia on the demographics of illiteracy and of the lack of proper education Minister of Education Krassimir Valtchev advocated a thesis that absenteeism from school should be deemed a crime. Bulgaria’s worst problem is not the decline of the population but the rise in the numbers of people with poor education, Valtchev said and stressed that 90 percent of the country’s Roma (Gypsies) have education lower than the secondary level. Migration has assumed a cultural profile as the educated flee the uneducated, and the emigration of the educated is a worse problem that the low birth rate, because the country loses not only many young people but also their progeny, the minister said.
New car sales in Bulgaria in October increased three times more than the average for the European Union , where the purchase of new cars is only 1.1%. According to the Association of European Automobile Manufacturers, 75.9% of cars registered in..
77 per cent of those employed in Bulgaria's secondary education system are ready to go out on strike demanding a pay rise in the sector, according to a national survey by Podkrepa trade union. Half of those surveyed are in favour of a nation-wide..
The damage control and fire-fighting teams in Shumen have responded to 10 reports of damage due to the strong wind, the Regional Directorate of the Interior Ministry has announced. More often than not the reports were of fallen trees and branches in..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would..
Overnight it will be mostly clear. Winds will weaken and die down in many areas. In the morning it will be cold, with minimum temperatures between minus..
The planned annual maintenance of Unit 6 of Bulgaria's only NPP, Kozloduy, has been completed. The unit was connected to the national grid at 10:07..
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