Section: Radio Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
President Plevneliev: If they cannot overcome crises as a community, EU countries are threatened by instability
The European Union needs a new dose of confidence that will unite European countries in overcoming the worst series of crises in recent years, said in Erfurt President Rosen Plevneliev, who participated in the 11th meeting of Heads of State of Central and Eastern Europe. The Bulgarian President stressed that the European Union was undergoing only...
Close to 290,000 foreign tourists visit Sofia over first six months of 2015
The number of tourists from abroad who have visited Sofia over the January – June 2015 period is up by 5.7 percent; the number of tourists from Bulgaria stands at over 291,000, according to data of the Tourism municipal enterprise. Data from the past five years show an annual rise in the number of visitors to Sofia. However, the number of foreign...
Sesil Karatantcheva drops out of Tokyo tennis tournament qualifications
Sesil Karatantcheva has dropped out of the Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis Tournament in Tokyo, after losing to No. 251 seed Olga Savchuk, Ukraine 1:6, 2:6 in a match from the second round of the tournament qualifications. The Bulgarian tennis player started her partcipation in Tokyo by winning versus Kyoka Okamura of Japan 6:3, 6:4. …read...
Vice President Margarita Popova meets with international academic group
Vice President Margarita Popova met today at the Presidency in Sofia with participants in the international interdisciplinary project Picturesque Bulgaria: Bulgarian Literary Routes. The event is under the auspices of the head of state, the press service of the Presidency said. The project’s participants include professors and students in...
Sesil Karatantcheva wins Tokyo tennis tournament qualification match
Sesil Karatantcheva has started with a win her participation in the qualifications of the tennis tournament in Tokyo with a prize fund worth 1 million US dollars. She beat Kyoka Okamura of Japan 6:3, 6:4. In the next round she plays versus Olga Savchuk of Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio...
Drop of export to Greece in July, Ukrainian markets restored
There has been a growth marked as of the start of the year of import and export, with a change of 9.4 percent of export on the previous year, according to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute /NSI/. However, the export growth went 2 percent down in July. “The drop of prices of petrol products is one of the reasons, as those are...
Old beech forests to enter UNESCO list
Century old Bulgarian beech forests will enter the list of world heritage under a UNESCO project. The protected forests are in the nine nature reserves of the Central Balkan National Park. The project is initiated by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, nature protection and nuclear safety, with the aim to preserve the unique old beech...
Bulgaria pursues lasting peace, security and stability in region
Bulgaria’s key foreign-policy priority is the attainment of a sustainable regional context benefiting lasting peace, security and stability. Close cooperation with this country’s partners from the European Union and NATO is the fastest and most effective formula to achieve this, said Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov speaking at the 12th...
Elitsa Kostova qualifies for Sofia tennis tournament doubles final
Bulgarian Elitsa Kostova and Czech partner Katerina Kramperova have qualified for the doubles final of the Allianz Cup tennis tournament in Sofia. At the semifinal, second seeded Kostova and Kramperova eliminated Bulgarian Dia Evtimova and Swiss Viktorija Golubic, 6:1, 7:6(3). At the final the Bulgarian and the Czech will play versus first seeded...
Black Sea region cannot do without EU and NATO
There are long-term and extremely complicated risks for the joint security and Bulgaria is an active participant in searching for fast and common measures for coping with the growing number of challenges. This is how Bulgarian Minister Daniel Mitov welcomed the participants in an international conference entitled “The role of NATO and the...
