The meeting of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov with the Prime Minister of Macedonia Zoran Zaev, who is on a visit to Sofia, has started, the government's press service announced. The two discuss development of cooperation in various sectors, infrastructure and transport projects, as well as the implementation of the Friendship and Cooperation Agreement between the countries.
Bulgaria will call on Brussels for zero tax rates in trade with the Republic of North Macedonia. This was what Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said after meeting with his counterpart Zoran Zaev in the Council of Ministers in Sofia.
PM Borissov reported that the trade between the two countries has reached 605 million euros. It is expected that after the EC approved the decision to lift customs fees between the two countries, trade would increase to a billion euros.
Earlier in the day, in the presence of the Prime Ministers of Bulgaria and Macedonia, the ministers of culture of the two countries, Boil Banov and Asaf Ademi, signed Cooperation Program between the two ministries for the period 2018-2021. Previously, the two ministers laid wreaths and flowers at the monument of prominent national liberation figure Gotse Delchev in Sofia on the occasion of the 147th anniversary of his birth.
Three days of protests demanding better working conditions are to begin today in psychiatric hospitals and wards across the country. According to Dr Tsveteslava Galabova, head of the St Ivan Rilski State Psychiatric Hospital, psychiatric care is on..
A total of 59 people lost their lives and 155 were injured in a fire that flared up during a concert by the popular band DNK in North Macedonia last night. The fire erupted at the Pulse club in the town of Koçani, 65 km from the Bulgarian border. Some of..
Overnight, clouds over the north and east will bring brief showers. There will be light to moderate westerly winds which will increase in strength on Monday, veering north-west and bringing in cold air. Showers will be widespread, especially in the..
A protest is taking place in Sofia to demand maximum sentences for a man and a woman who killed animals in a particularly cruel way. So far, nearly..
Bulgarian citizens and road hauliers should avoid traveling to Serbia on March 15 and 16 except in cases of extreme necessity , until the protest actions..
In response to the tragedy in North Macedonia, where more than 50 people lost their lives in a fire at a nightclub in the town of Kočani, Foreign..
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