Sofia

At its regular meeting on Wednesday, the Bulgarian government approved additional expenses to the budget of the regional ministry for 2016 amounting to slightly over BGN 119 M.

The funds will be allocated for preventive maintenance of the road network mainly in northern Bulgaria, repair works and the completion of road infrastructure projects across the country.

Bulgaria and Romania should not aspire to have the EU monitoring dropped, but should rather remove the reasons leading to its introduction, EU Commission Vice President Kristalina Georgieva has said.

Bulgaria has found no evidence of wrongdoing by Bulgarians in the Panama Papers affair, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov has said.

He has made clear that the National Revenue Agency (NRA) stands ready to look into any new name of a Bulgarian national that appears in media publications as involved in offshore dealings.

Bulgaria and Turkey have achieved a very good level of cooperation in ensuring the protection of their common border in the context of the current migration crisis in Europe.

The refugee crisis in Europe, terrorist threats and the fight against organized crime have been on the agenda of a meeting of Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Turkey's Chief Public Prosecutor at the Supreme Court Mehmet Akarca in Sofia.

A quarter of traditional supporters of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party would vote for the new party of the former DPS leader, DOST, a Gallup International Bulgaria poll shows.

A film festival bringing together documentaries dedicated to the arts begins in Bulgaria's capital Sofia on April 15.

With some 50 titles included in this first edition, the event which is first-of-a-kind for Southeast Europe aims to showcase the role of documentaries in promoting arts, organizers have said.

The refugee crisis, terrorist threats and the fight against organized crime will be on the agenda of talks between the top prosecutors of Bulgaria and Turkey in Sofia this week.

Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB), one of the parties constituting the junior coalition partner, the Reformist Bloc (RB), demanded the resignation of Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski on Monday.

DSB demanded the resignation of Moskovski due to the recent corruption scandal involving the chairperson of the Road Transport Administration (DAI) executive agency Tsvetelin Tsvetanov.

Nearly 300 miners will lose their jobs as the "Cherno more" mine near the Bulgarian city of Burgas will close on Monday.

The closure of the mine comes as surprise for the miners, who are still waiting to receive their February salaries.