“57.9% of young people believe that there should be stricter control of tobacco use,” Pavel Antonov from the Smoke-free Life Coalition, Bulgaria says. “40% say they want programmes presenting the tobacco industry and smoking in a positive light banned from the media. More than 50% say that the state must not allow this industry to interfere in decision-making regarding public health policies and smoking,” Pavel Antonov stated for the BNR's Horizont channel.
Again in an interview for Horizont channel, Dr. Alexander Simidchiev, chair of the Air for Health Association stated, that there is no proof that modern inhalator tobacco products are any safer.
The majority in parliament overcame the president's veto on the Investment Promotion Act. The bill was passed in second reading on October 24, but President Rumen Radev vetoed parts of it, arguing that the proposed rules specifically..
Deputy Prime Ministers and Ministers of Transport Grozdan Karadzhov and Aleksandar Nikoloski signed an agreement in Gyueshevo for the construction of a railway tunnel between Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia. The facility..
The police have neutralized an organized crime group that transported migrants from Burgas through Sofia to the Serbian border, Sofia District Prosecutor Natalia Nikolova said at a briefing. She indicated that 13 addresses were..
Birth rate in Bulgaria has decreased by 33% over the past three decades. In 1994, 79,442 live births were registered in the country, while in 2024 the..
The European Commission has decided to withhold EUR 215 million from the second payment under Bulgaria’s recovery and resilience plan, the EC told the..
With 111 votes for, 51 against and 43 abstained, the National Assembly approved the establishment of an ad-hoc committee to investigate the activities..
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