Автор
Maria Georgieva
Публикации по категории
Transport and communications
- Four more fast trains between Sofia and Burgas switch to new Alstom units
- Road agency launches free website showing roadworks and traffic jams in real time
- Burgas traffic: jams in the city and on the nearby road
- Turkish hauliers protest at Kapitan Andreevo against 90-day EU stay limit
- Buffet car to join Septemvri–Dobrinishte narrow-gauge trains from 30 October
- Peev and Uraloglu seek urgent solution to truck queues at Kapitan Andreevo (updated)
- Road agency to report weekly on progress at Toplí Dol tunnel repairs
- Radev: Topli Dol tunnel on Hemus motorway will open for the holidays
- 2027 budget draft to include money for design of Ruse–Makaza motorway
Oversight and accountability
- Consumer watchdog fines three shops from two chains €75,000 over unfair practices
- Consumer protection commission: complaints three times higher after Black Friday
- Competition watchdog to rule within 10 days on one of two cases against retail chains
- Radev: no interference in the food market, but with systemic control measures
- Manolova to retail chains: the state only wants that the law on mark-ups be followed
- Court upholds penalties of nearly €310,000 over Deutsche Markenbutter
- 7 violations found at 17 petrol stations in joint operation by tax agency, police and customs
- Labour inspectors find 4,700 violations at Black Sea coast businesses, mostly work without a contract
- Bulgaria's consumer watchdog fines store chains more than €110,000
- Dairy makers: traditional white brined cheese cannot cost less than €11 a kilo
- Consumer watchdog checks supplements and herbs sold as cures, even for cancer
Agriculture
Statistics and regulation
- Zaharieva: EU falls behind US and China on innovation because of a fragmented market
- Foreign workers are not pushing out Bulgarians, and pay is rising in Burgas, IPI says
- Coface expects Bulgaria to grow 2.2% this year, but consumption is weakening
- Stanislav Popdonchev of BSB joins the board of the Silver Fund for 2027
- Euro slips to $1.1150 against dollar in ECB rate
- Bulgaria has EU's second-highest road death rate after Romania, EC says
- Bulgaria had the most road deaths in the EU in 2025, at 71 per million people (updated)
Energetics
- Jorgensen: EU does not expect jet fuel crisis
- Wind supplies 16.8% of Europe's electricity in 24 hours, but only 2.3% in Bulgaria
- Business electricity for 29 October costs 4.77% more, at €320.13 per megawatt hour
- Gas at TTF hub nears €100 per megawatt hour, while Bulgaria's price is €88.81
- Bulgaria's energy regulator says power and heating prices will not rise on 1 January
- Wind farms supplied 25.7% of Europe's power in 24 hours, but only 4.9% in Bulgaria
- Bulgaria's energy regulator won't change power and heating prices from 1 January
- Business electricity to cost 20% more tomorrow, averaging €305.56 per megawatt hour