Новости за 01.12.2022

EU governments might agree on a cap on the price of Russian oil, delivered by sea, at $60 a barrel, with an adjustment mechanism approved to keep the cap 5% below the market oil price, said a European diplomat quoted by Reuters. Poland, which insisted that the ceiling be as low as possible, had until 17:00 p.m....

After in the plenary hall the deputies voted "in favor" the return of the paper ballot as a right of choice for voting in the sections with over 300 people. From "We Continue the Change" and "Democratic Bulgaria" gave a statement in the parliament. “Just now in the GERB hall, DPS and BSP voted to vote only by paper from the next local elections....

“If there are elections before the local ones - early parliamentary ones, they will be voted in mixed conditions - by paper or by machines, at the local ones, if the following logical texts proposed by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) are accepted, voting will be done with paper ballots that will be scanned by machines”. This was explained by the chairman of the legal commission, Radomir Cholakov. The Parliament accepted Mustafa Karadayi’s proposal that the Bulgarian voter should vote... Читать дальше...

An accident with migrants happened last night on the Elhovo - Burgas road. A 30-year-old woman and a 10-year-old child were admitted to the surgery department at the Yambol hospital. The traffic accident was reported last night around 7:30 p....

New adjustment of the price of natural gas for December. It will be slightly higher than announced a few days ago. What the energy regulator will approve this afternoon is BGN 146 and 83 cents per megawatt hour, Nova TV reported. ...

Spanish security forces found a third suspected explosive device hidden in an envelope sent to an EU satellite center located at an air base in Torrejon de Ardoz, outside Madrid, the defense ministry said on Thursday. After X-ray scanning the envelope, Air Force security officials determined it contained a "mechanism," the ministry said in a statement. Police are still analyzing the shipment, Reuters reports. ...

The BNB announced that from today the main interest rate (MIR) is 1.30%. The increase is more than double compared to November. ...

"We Continue the Change" will not propose a government with the second mandate if the parliament accepts the controversial changes to the Electoral Code. This was commented on the sidelines of the parliament by the co-chairman of the party Kiril Petkov. "If the paper ballot passes today, what does this mean for us? It means that this parliament is giving the narrow-party task of GERB, DPS and BSP to steal the honest vote of the Bulgarian citizens, to return to the invalid ballots....

The first of the F-16 fighter jets ordered by Bulgaria is already being assembled at the Lockheed Martin factory, the company announced today. All eight Bulgarian fighters will be produced at the new Lockheed plant in Greenville, South Carolina. “The production of the F-16 in Greenville has made significant progress, with fighters being assembled simultaneously for several countries - for Bahrain, Slovakia and Bulgaria....

Turkey installed a 280-ton tank 2,200 meters deep in the sea that will collect Black Sea gas coming from the wells, an operation that took 20 hours, Yeni Şafak newspaper reported. Earlier, the newspaper "Sabah" wrote that Turkey will invest almost 10 billion dollars in a project to extract and transfer 540 billion cubic meters of gas from the Sakarya field in the Black Sea. The first gas from the field is planned to enter Turkey in 2023....

OLAF - The European Anti-Fraud Office recommends that Bulgaria reimburse nearly 12 million euros in the EU budget due to irregularities found in two audited projects, BTA reported. In the first case, the Office's investigation found that a wastewater treatment plant in our country, completed in 2012 as part of a European project, never started operating. The facility poses a threat to public health and the environment, the institution points out....

Today is Great Union Day – a national holiday in Romania marking the unification of Transylvania, Bessarabia, and Bukovina with the Romanian Kingdom in 1918. On such a special occasion, we have invited Her Excellency Mrs. Brandusa Predescu in our series of interviews Ambassador Talks....

The new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours are 221, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal. 3,938 tests were performed, which means that the proportion of positive results is 5.6 percent. ...

Rain will continue on Thursday. In the Pre-Balkans and the high western fields, there will be snow and a new snow cover will form. In the Danube Plain and the Ludogorie - rain and snow and in some places ice is possible....

“The institutions of the European Union and the member states must be guided by the established criteria for Schengen membership and not by other considerations.” This was stated by President Rumen Radev in a telephone conversation with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The Netherlands is one of the countries in the Schengen area that disagrees with the accession of Bulgaria. ...