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
Bulgarian hoteliers clearly do not understand criticism and sarcasm. The expense during the Christmas and New Year holidays gave birth to the song “I can’t afford Velingrad, I’m going to the Maldives”. And although in 2023 overnight stays have already become significantly more expensive, the business of tourist accommodation en masse is about to raise … Read more
Residents of the metropolitan area “Lyulin” are alarmed about another construction being prepared in the increasingly green areas of the complex. The administration of the region has received an order of the chief architect of Sofia Zdravko Zdravkov, issued in July 2023, authorizing the development of a detailed development plan for two adjacent plots in … Read more
In Plovdiv last night, an event was held against the Alyosha monument to the Soviet occupation. In front of the bust of the Apostle of Freedom Vasil Levski, the participants unfurled a huge banner with the inscription: “Forgive us, Apostle, for being under the boot of the occupier!”, reported BGNES. On the northern edge of … Read more
Investments prepared for months by the Ministry of Energy under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan may go to waste because of the remediation. Finance Minister Asen Vassilev surprisingly announced to the EU funds control committee that the cabinet is considering the idea of redirecting an available resource of 480 million euros from the energy … Read more
The University of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy (UASG) has allowed an absurdly conducted competition for “chief assistants”. The violation was eventually sanctioned, but not thanks to the university and the Ministry of Education, but to a professor whose 5-year legal battles to avoid dangerous precedents for Bulgarian higher education were crowned with success. The professor … Read more
17 years after Bulgaria’s membership in the European Union, the court in Luxembourg canceled the last restriction for EU citizens to acquire agricultural land in Bulgaria. All obstacles to this should have fallen back in 2014, but instead, with changes to the Law on the Ownership and Use of Agricultural Lands (ZSPZZ) contrary to the … Read more