Bulgaria Lags in Absorbing EU Funds, Risking Losses and Growing Debt
Bulgaria is falling behind in its utilization of European Union funds
Sixteen kilos of heroin were seized from a house in the village of Konyavo, near Kyustendil, in a raid in the late afternoon on Friday by the local police and the local unit for organized crime control, Kyustendil Police Spokesperson Katya Tabachka said on Saturday.
The heroin was divided in 29 packets.
Three people were detained, the owner, 49, of the house, and two other men, 51 and 61 years of age.
An investigation is underway. BTA
Transport Minister Grozdan Karadjov has officially accepted the resignations of Engineer Stoyan Stoyanov, head of the National Company "Railway Infrastructure" (NRIC), and Christian Krastev, manager of BDZ-Freight Transport
Thirteen-year-old Nikolay from the village of Konare, Stara Zagora region, has been missing for a month
A 59-year-old man who was injured in a collision between two freight trains near the Sofia village of Lokorsko remains in critical condition
A serious railway accident occurred near Sofia, in the Lokorsko region
In late December, three migrant teens died in Bulgaria after being abandoned in the forest near the border with Turkey
A fire broke out in a room on the third floor of a historic building on Gladston Street in Plovdiv
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