After a long meeting on Wednesday, the Varna municipal council did not adopt the most important decision that a mayor traditionally proposes – the budget for the year. The vote was postponed until Thursday. Another session is scheduled within a dozen days, indicating that the matter may hang at least until then. The draft budget … Read more
The political crisis that rocked Sofia for 3 months after the local elections in November of this year seems to have subsided for now, after Tsvetomir Petrov from the PP-DB was elected to temporarily head the Sofia Municipal Council. This compromise, as well as the birth of the assembly in the National Assembly, did not … Read more
BGNESMayor Vasil Terziev announced that there will be a competition for a new chief architect, but “further on”. The new team in Sofia has started cleaning in a key area for the city – “Architecture and Town Planning”. Mayor Vasil Terziev, however, is silent on the main question – when will the competition for a … Read more
Although the fight against red tape is not from yesterday, we will still have to change 102 more laws to remove unnecessary requirements for businesses and citizens and speed up the work of the administration. The laws are written in order to reduce the administrative burden. It promises the dropping of documents, which we have … Read more
The protesting farmers may have disunited in their march to save the “dying” agrarian sector, but they have united society in its outrage at their arrogant demands. Observing from the sidelines the incessant clamor for more subsidies, state aid and various preferences, the rest outside the agrarian sector become more and more negative with each … Read more
Former US President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay nearly $355 million and banned from doing business in New York state for three years after pleading guilty to fraud. Trump is currently leading the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 5 US election. “The court hereby … Read more
Germany has wrested from Japan the symbolic title of the third largest economic power, according to preliminary data on Japanese GDP published today, cited by AFP and BTA. The USA and China are in first and second place. Japan’s nominal GDP in 2023 was $4.21 trillion, compared to $4.46 trillion for Germany, whose nominal GDP … Read more
Discovered in mid-March 2021, a group with the participation of active officers from the “Military Intelligence” service, a director from the Ministry of Defense, a leading official in the administration of the National Assembly was handed over to court by the Military District Prosecutor’s Office-Sofia. This is clear from an official announcement of the state … Read more
Another attempt to solve the problem of illegal construction of highways and other public facilities was subjected to devastating criticism. Many critical opinions have been received on the changes introduced by the cabinet to the Parliament in the Law on Territorial Planning (ZUT). Even in positions where the idea of rescuing these public investments is … Read more
The tendency to build more and more closed complexes around Sofia leads to the expansion of settlements near the capital with whole new neighborhoods. A project for the construction of 29 single-family buildings on the outskirts of the village of Gurmazovo in the municipality of Bozhurishte has been submitted to the Regional Inspectorate for the … Read more