ARCHIVE - 18 January 2017
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Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry and the Electricity and Water Regulatory Commission (KEVR) will start emergency inspections of the three electricity distribution ventures due to the record-high consumption of electricity in the last two months.
Business | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 20:56
The Road Infrastructure Agency will apply for funding for the construction of the highway from border cross checkpoint Kalotina to the Sofia ring road, decided on Wednesday the outgoing cabinet.
Business | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 17:12
Six new all-year flight routes will be launched in 2017 at Varna Airport, reported BTA.
Business | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 16:40
Russia and Turkey will conduct their first joint air force operation against the terrorist grouping Islamic State in the suburbs of al-Bab in the Aleppo province, reported TASS, cited by the Focus agency.
Politics | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 18:36
"I will have a new workplace" in the short term, Bulgarian Vice President Margarita Popova has said at her farewell press conference with President Rosen Plevneliev.
Politics | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 13:21
Outgoing Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has argued Bulgaria may be stripped of its Council of the European Union presidency if it works toward division within the EU.
Politics | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 12:39
Several days of handing the Presidency over to Rumen Radev from Rosen Plevneliev are coming until the end of the week.
Politics | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 09:19
President Rosen Plevneliev and Vice President Margarita Popova will give their last press conference while in office on Wednesday.
Politics | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 07:38
Bulgaria has to continue to improve collectability of taxes and take measures for reducing the size of the grey economy, recommended the European Commission.
Newly-elected European Parliament President Antonio Tajani has spoken with outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the latter has said.
Drivers who enter sections of roads that have been closed down temporarily because of bad meteorological conditions, violating the instructions of the Interior Ministry and the indicative signs that a ban has been imposed, will be deprived of their drivin
There is a 15-km queue of trucks at Danube Bridge Russe, reported BGNES.
MPs adopted the draft for the extension of the National Programme for Energy Efficiency and an increase of the financial resource to BGN 2 B.
The outgoing government has allocated an additional BGN 9.
The move to expel Gülen supporter Abdullah Buyuk to Turkey "bears all the hallmarks of an unlawful rendition to risk of torture", human rights organization Amnesty International says in a report.
Society | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 14:56
Bulgaria's weather service has issued a Code Yellow warning for most of the country's 28 regions.
As a convinced European I said from the very beginning: “To me the EU is not foreign policy, but my family”.
Quotes | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 11:53
An agreement between Moldova and the Eurasian Economic Union will not be in any contradiction with the country's EU commitments, President Igor Dodon has told Sputnik Moldova.
World | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 12:58
German citizens will decide on September 24 whether Angela Merkel will be re-elected for a fourth mandate as German Chancellor, reported AFP.
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EU | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 19:00
18 Bulgarian deputies in the European Parliament have announced a common position against the planned blockades in Greece and along the border with Bulgaria.
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EU | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 17:37
Conditions for the admission of migrants in Bulgaria are not satisfactory, ruled in three separate instances a judge with the Council for Alien Law Litigation (CALL) in Belgium, reported BTA.
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EU | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 15:46
Four tremors hit Central Italy within an hour on Wednesday morning, the strongest measuring 5.
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EU | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 14:08
Key EPP MEP and former EU Commissioner Antonio Tajani is the new European Parliament President after a vote held on Tuesday.
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EU | January 18, 2017, Wednesday // 07:26
President Rosen Plevneliev on Tuesday awarded Spain's outgoing Ambassador to Bulgaria Jose Luis Tapia Vicente with a Stara Planina order (Order of the Balkan Mountains).
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