Bulgaria

Bulgaria's top male tennis player Grigor Dimitrov made a successful start to the defence of his Aegeon championship title at the Queen's Club in London.

Dimitrov achieved a comeback and defeated Sam Querrey from the USA with 6:4, 3:6, 4;6 in the first round of the tournament.

The European Commission has given the green light to Bulgaria's last 2 operational programs in the 2014-2020 programming period, including "Environment" and "Regions in Growth."

All of Bulgaria's 7 operational programs in the 2014-2020 programming period have now been approved, with their total budget amounting to EUR 7.6 B, according to the EC pres office.

An airplane made an emergency landing at Bulgaria's Sofia Airport on Tuesday afternoon due to a broken window.

The Wizz Air airplane was conducting flight number W64363 from Sofia to Bologna with 173 passengers on board, daily Sega reports.

Bulgaria is the logistics hub in Southeast Europe. I would like for Portuguese businesses to discover a country that is a center of stability on the Balkans.

The statement was made by Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev at the opening of a Bulgarian-Portuguese business forum.

EU Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Cretu has expressed her appreciation for the work of Bulgarian authorities in view of the absorption rate of over 75% of EU funds for the 2007-2013 programming period.

Cretu shared her impressions after a Tuesday meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in Sofia.

Bulgaria's state-owned gas company Bulgargaz reported a loss of BGN 15.195 M for the first quarter of 2015, according to the financial report of the company.

According to the report, published on the website of the Finance Ministry at the end of last week, the financial condition of Bulgargaz deteriorates substantially from the same period in 2014.

Bulgaria-registered Qatar Management Agency EOOD bought industrial and agricultural property worth over BGN 4.85 M in the district of Varna in end-May.

Qatar Management Agency EOOD was registered in 2008.

The CEO of the company is Sheikh Mohamed Jassim Al-Thani.

Bulgaria has fulfilled all technical requirements for accession to the Schengen Area and joining the border-free zone is a matter of a political decision, according to Yavor Haytov, Deputy Parliament Speaker.

A US plan to deploy heavy weapons and forces in Eastern Europe is still in an early planning stage, White House Spokesman Josh Earnest has said.

Earnest commented Monday for the first time on reports of the New York Times that Washington is weighing an option to send
heavy equipment to Poland and the Baltics, and also elsewhere in Eastern Europe including Romania and Bulgaria.

Out of 34 detained at the protests held Tuesday in the Orlandovtsi neighborhood in Sofia, Bulgaria, only 8 were from the neighborhood, police say.

Initially the number of arrested people was lower but law enforcement officers had to take more into custody over hooliganism and refusing to heed police orders.