Новости за 17.08.2022

The construction of the factory for electric cars in the Bulgarian town of Lovech, which was agreed a year ago by the then Minister of Economy Kiril Petkov with the investor, has practically already started. This was confirmed for the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) by the executive director of the company "NEXT e GO" – Bulgaria, architect Lubomir Stanislavov. It is expected that the first finished test cars will leave the factory by the end of next year. ...

In the April-June period, the economy grew by 4.8% compared to the second quarter of the previous year, NSI reported. Compared to the first three months of the year, the gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1....

The caretaker government will discuss as the first item on its agenda the disaster situation in the municipality of Svoge because of the water supply problem, caretaker Prime Minister Galab Donev announced. At the beginning of the meeting, he thanked everyone who did not pass the 217th kilometer of the Trakia highway on Sunday evening and stopped to help the children and adults in the crashed Serbian bus. Donev expects the Ministry of the Interior to exercise serious control over compliance with road traffic rules. Читать дальше...

Inflation in Britain jumped to a new 40-year high in July due to rising food prices, official statistics showed. Forecasts of a recession are added to the crisis of living costs, AFP reported. Annual inflation in the United Kingdom accelerated in July to 10....

Are gas stations draining money through the anti-crisis measure of 25 cents per liter of fuel? The chairman of the Bulgarian Oil and Gas Association Zhivodar Terziev commented on the topic on Nova TV. "In recent weeks we have seen attempts at abuse, which I suspect will become pandemic in the month of September, so we need to stop it at the outset. This state aid is granted to individuals under certain conditions, and any attempt of an employee or manager of a gas station to collect it should be stopped," said Terziev. Читать дальше...

From midnight on the website of the Central Election Committee (CEC), the function for submitting an electronic form for inclusion in electoral lists outside the country is active. The form (in Bulgarian). Based on the applications submitted by citizens of Bulgaria, the locations and number of sections abroad will be finally approved, reports the CEC. ...

“This time we will have 121 deputies. People felt that in these 7 months we made a very good first step. Yes, the absolute change will take more than 7 months, but the first steps are a fact....

The new cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria during the past 24 hours are 1,350 with 6,713 tests (20.11% positive), according to the data of the Unified Information Portal. For the previous 24 hours, these indicators were respectively 1864 and 8845 (21....

The caretaker government is changing the entire management team of "Bulgargaz", bTV reports, referring to an application filed in the Commercial Register. The news was confirmed by the spokesman of the cabinet, Anton Kutev. Denitsa Zlateva - a long-time member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and former deputy prime minister in the government of Ognyan Gerdzhikov, responsible for the preparation of the Bulgarian presidency of the EU - has been appointed as the new head of the public gas supplier....

High political ambitions were stated before the early elections. On the penultimate day of registration in the Central Election Committee, the parties submitted requests for a majority in the format of a triple coalition. Proposals for solving the crises in the country were also heard. ...