Bulgarian grain producers have launched a protest. With over 50 tractors, farmers from the regions of Ruse, Pleven and Veliko Tarnovo briefly blocked the Ruse-Pleven road near the village of Gorna Studena.
Duty-free imports of wheat and sunflower from Ukraine would lead to bankruptcies of agricultural cooperatives because lower prices make Bulgarian production noncompetitive, the protesters said. They also call for postponing the strategic plan in agriculture, as they would lose vital European subsidies. The protesters took a note of protest to the Minister of Agriculture and to the caretaker government, in which they stated that the warehouses were full of unsold grain and they could not pay their contractors.
Even before the election of the regular committees, the Parliament decided to set up an ad hoc committee to find out all the facts and circumstances of the drought problems in the country. The decision was taken unanimously with 203 votes in favour. The..
Hundreds of miners protested outside the Council of Ministers while an extraordinary meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation was held inside. The protest is against the planned 15% tax on underground resources from 2025, a tax..
The National Council for Tripartite Cooperation discussed the draft budget for 2025. The trade unions and some of the employer organizations expressed their support for the proposal. According to Kancho Stoychev, Deputy Chair of the..
"I am addressing a question to the Prime Minister regarding information that on November 26 this year, a group of Bulgarian citizens was on trial in..
By December 31, the road from the Greek side to the Rudozem - Xanthi border checkpoint will be ready, said Christodoulos Topsidis, Eastern Macedonia and..
The Council of the European Union decided that checks at the land Schengen borders of Bulgaria and Romania will be lifted from January 1, the..
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