Новости за 09.06.2017

In the period January - April 2017 Bulgarian exports to third countries increased by 22.1% in comparison with the corresponding period of the previous year and amounted to BGN 5 653.2M. Main trade partners of Bulgaria were Turkey, China, Egypt, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Russian Federation, which accounted for 51.9% of the exports to non EU countries, the data of the National Statistical Institute shows.

Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday she would form a new British government with backing from Northern Irish unionists after losing her Conservative majority in a snap general election, AFP reported.

"I have just been to see Her Majesty the Queen and I will now form a government - a government that can provide certainty and lead Britain forward at this critical time for our country," she said after returning from Buckingham Palace to her Downing Street office in London

An accident took place today about 12.30h local time with a helicopter of the Bulgarian Navy, reported BNR.

The Parliament wants an e-healthcare system with all its components to be installed and implemented in a 2-year term, the MPs decided after a debate on a strategy for hospital development in Bulgaria, FOCUS News Agency reported.

The decision was supported by 129 MPs, while 7 voted against it and 56 abstained.

In addition, the Health Minister will present two times a year, in June and December, a report on the financial situation of state municipal hospitals before the parliamentary committee of healthcare. Читать дальше...

''Bulgaria has not expressed an official position on the upcoming referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan'', Prime Minister Boyko Borisov told the Parliament in response to a question about a meeting with Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

The question came from MP Elena Yoncheva from opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), a reporter of FOCUS News Agency reported.

"The meeting I held with Mr. Masoud Barzani on May 25 was part of the efforts of... Читать дальше...

In the period January – March 2017 Bulgarian exports to the EU increased by 12.2% compared to the same period of 2016 and amounted to BGN 7 915.2M according to the National Statistical Institute. Main trade partners of Bulgaria were Germany, Italy, Romania, Greece, France and Belgium which accounted for 67.9% of the exports to the EU Member States.

''Every second recommendation by the Ombudsman has been fulfilled'', Maya Manolova, head of the institution, told FOCUS Radio’s Good Morning Bulgaria.

The most common complaints are against private enforcement agents and procedural opportunities for monopoly companies to sue debtors and set huge additional costs. The number of complaints has doubled thanks to increasing trust in the institution, the Ombudsman stressed.

Among often occurring problems she mentioned the sale of citizens’ property... Читать дальше...

Today there will be significant clouds over the country and rains in many places. Only in some areas, there will be thunders too, according to the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).

 In Western Bulgaria, the clouds will decrease in the afternoon.

There will be light, in Eastern Bulgaria and Struma valley moderate to strong northern wind.

Maximum temperatures in most of the country will stand at 18° to 23°, in the northwestern and southwestern regions to 26°-28°, in Sofia around 20°. Читать дальше...

Two Bulgarians and an Afghan were charged on Thursday, June 8, after 9 migrants died when a minibus crashed in southern Bulgaria at the weekend, prosecutors said, quoted by Rappler. 

Bulgaria's Minister of Justice Tsetska Tsacheva welcomed the agreement between 19 EU member states including Bulgaria about the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor's Office, reported BNR.

Bulgaria’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that Bulgaria will finally complete reforms to its judicial system by the end of 2018 in order to end a decade of EU monitoring — “which can’t go on forever'', according to the Washington Post. 

Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov will file a complaint against the spokesperson of opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Elena Yoncheva, over what he called crimes against the national interests and security,  FOCUS News Agency reported.

The complaint will be in response to repeated statements by Yoncheva who, according to Simenov, gave specific instructions on where the cameras on the border operate and where they do not, where the border fence is one-line and where it is double. Читать дальше...

Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives have come first in Britain's general election but lost their overall majority in parliament, near-complete results showed on Friday, AFP reported.

With just 16 seats left to declare, the Conservatives have won 309 seats, meaning they cannot get an overall majority in the 650-seat House of Commons.

For a week, artists from Bulgaria and abroad will transform the facades of 30 buildings in Ahtopol, the most southern Bulgarian town on the Black Sea coast, into works of art. A festival will be launched in the seaside town on 12th of June which aims at transforming the seaside town into an outdoor gallery, reported BNT. 

Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives are set to lose their overall majority after Britain's general election, an exit poll showed on Thursday after voting closed, AFP reports.

The Conservatives were set to win 314 seats, followed by Labour on 266, the Scottish National Party on 34 and the Liberal Democrats on 14, the poll for the BBC, Sky and ITV showed.

If confirmed, the poll would be a stunning reversal for May, who had called the election on April 18 in a declared bid to strengthen her hand for the Brexit negotiations.