Новости за 20.07.2018

Bulgaria continues to rank third in the European Union (EU) with the lowest ratio of government debt to gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2018, European Statistical Office Eurostat data show.

SOFIA: Bulgaria's parliament voted on Friday to bar the government from signing bilateral agreements with other European Union countries on readmitting migrants who arrived in Europe via the Black Sea state.

Nearly 10 000 levs were stolen from a shop in Sofia.
 
The money is taken out of the cashier's office in the Mladost quarter of Sofia.
 
The police have conducted a site inspection. There is still no one detained.

In the first half of 2018, The Customs Agency has collected revenues from excise duties, VAT on imports, customs duties and fines amounting to BGN 4.596 billion, compared to BGN 4.345 billion for the same period of the previous year. The amount of the increase is BGN 250.9 million (5.8%) more than excise tax revenues, VAT on imports, customs duties and fines in the first half of 2017, the agency quoted by BGNES.

The European Commission, the European Union’s legal institution, on Thursday sent a formal letter of notice to Hungary, the first step of an infringement procedure, over the government’s “Stop Soros” law.

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to eight more years in prison on Friday after finding her guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a 2016 parliamentary election.

MILAN (Reuters) - EasyJet (EZJ.L) is still keen on parts of Alitalia after an Italian minister said this week the government wants the majority of the carrier under state control, the chief executive of the British low cost airline told daily Corriere della Sera.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A major cyberattack on Singapore’s government health database stole the personal information of about 1.5 million people, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the government said on Friday.

17 700 euro, 170 leva and personal documents were stolen from a man traveling by train from Sofia to Lom. The report of the theft was filed by the victim himself.

According to mid-term forecasts by the end of July, we can not expect temperatures above 34-35 degrees, nor a particular change in weather, which is more typical for autumn than for summer.
 
July 19 was one of the coldest days this summer, in Sofia it was windy and with low clouds - a typical autumn atmosphere. Medium-term models show that this circulation over Eastern Europe and the Balkans will continue in the next 10 days.

Today in many places in Central and Eastern Bulgaria will develop  clouds and there will be short-lived rainfall and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny over the western regions. It will blow a mild to moderate wind from west to northwest. The maximum temperatures will be between 26 and 31 degrees, in Sofia - about 26.

Skopje, 19 July 2018 (MIA) - Parliament at its Thursday’s continuation of the 53rd session unanimously adopted the Declaration on supporting Macedonia’s accession process for NATO membership. The Declaration was adopted by a vote of 76 in favour without any votes against or abstained. SDSM’s MP Hari Lokvenec said that NATO admission directly brings security and stability, and also indirectly affects not military but economic benefits. “The experiences of the SEE countries related to NATO membership show that when a state joins the Alliance... Читать дальше...

BBC - US President Donald Trump has invited Russian leader Vladimir Putin to visit the US in the autumn, his press secretary says.

Nearly 36 percent of Bulgarian farmers are aged 65 and over, according to Eurostat figures for 2016. Elderly people in this profession are predominant throughout the EU - 32% are over 65. Only 11% of the farmers are under 40 years of age . Here Bulgaria is better than the average for the union - 14%. The least young farmers are in Cyprus - 3.3%, Portugal - 4.2%, the UK - 5.3%. The largest share is in Austria - 22.2%, Poland - 20.3% and Slovakia - 19%. Young people, however, manage larger areas than adults... Читать дальше...

An earthquake of magnitude 3 on the Richter scale was registered in Rila, minutes before midnight. The quake was 11 km northwest of Belitsa, 32 km from Blagoevgrad and 74 km from Sofia. The depth was 10 kilometers.
 
There is no evidence of injured people and material damage.
 
In Blagoevgrad, two more earthquakes with magnitude 2.6 and 2.1 were registered several hours before, the Seismological Center of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences reported.

On 14 September, 2018 NDK Sofia, Bulgaria will host NEXT BLOCK Conference “Evolution Of Money” organized by Krypton Events, in partnership with Cryptovest.

Sofia. The measures taken by the Bulgarian authorities on the outbreaks of ovine rinderpest are strictly in line with the European Commission’s recommendations and procedures, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis told Bulgarian reporters, Focus News Agency reports. “We should once again send a very clear message that such disease is very dangerous when animals have direct contact between them. But the human factor plays a very important role. It should be stressed to people... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Marine Corps’ Black Sea Rotational Force left its base in Romania for training in Bulgaria this month, carrying out exercises that are another sign the U.S. military is preparing for a kind of conflict that’s different from what it has faced in recent decades.

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria reported on Thursday another case of the highly contagious Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) close to the border with Turkey.