News archive of July 2019

Parliament on Tuesday approved the government's new tax bill, which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said will define his administration's credentials as a patron of a "productive middle class."

By the end of 2020, a maritime spatial plan covering Bulgarian territorial waters in the Black Sea should be ready. This was stated by the regional deputy minister Denitsa Nikolova, quoted by the press center of the department. The plan is the first step and fundamental document for the implementation of the country's maritime policy.

A bee that was accidentally carried from Turkey to the United Kingdom in a British family's luggage is to be destroyed if caught because it might endanger British species, said government officials.

Bulgarian scientists again embark on an expedition to the Black Sea. The ''Academica'' ship will take the scientists on the expedition along the Bulgarian coast. It starts on Saturday and will last for 15 days and its focus is ecology.

Turkey's foreign trade deficit dropped sharply in June, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on July 31.

The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) has established a new outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) at an industrial farm in the village of Popina, Sitovo municipality, Silistra district. The positive samples were laboratory confirmed today, July 30, 2019, by the National Reference Laboratory at the National Diagnostic Veterinary Research Institute in Sofia.

Lawmakers of SYRIZA opposition have walked out of a parliamentary debate on lifting the immunity of former alternate health minister Pavlos Polakis from prosecution.

TESS has found 24 new planets.

NASA's TESS (The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is a space telescope for NASA's Explorers program) has discovered a total of three planets around a star, located about 73 light-years from our own solar system, and one has a composition comparable to Earth's, according to BGNES.

,,We look forward to work with Bulgaria on this project and to strengthen our long-term strategic partnership'', State Department reports.
The US congratulated the Bulgarian government on the decision to buy eight F-16 multifunctional fighter jets, ammunition and related equipment.

The friendship between the Bulgarian and Cypriot people is based on the spiritual and cultural ties that we have been developing for many years. This was stated by President Rumen Radev, who met today with the President of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus, Demetris Syllouris.