Interior Ministry

Bulgaria's firefighters who have been protesting countrywide for a week now, threaten to go on strike due to a 'disastrous' new draft regulation.

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry will spend over BGN 53 M, VAT included, on traffic surveillance.

Some BGN 39.5 M of the total will be spent on buying fixed road safety cameras and building a unified center for processing traffic violations in Sofia, according to reports of Pressa daily.

BELGRADE - Minimum control procedures are being implemented at border crossings in Serbia so as to minimise delays and ensure accelerated pace for vehicles traffic, members of the border police told Tanjug.

Firefighters, police officers and rescue workers protested in Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna on Saturday against the new rules regulating their work, reports Dnes.bg.

The protest was sparked by a new draft regulation slimming down a firefighter team down to two people. 

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Transport Zorana Mihajlovic reached an agreement with the Customs Administration and the Interior Ministry on Saturday to implement all the necessary measures in order to accelerate traffic pace and reduce delays for road vehicles on border crossings with Croatia and Hungary.

Russia said July 26 that new European Union sanctions targeting Russian intelligence chiefs over its role in Ukraine risked ending all joint cooperation on security.

The European Union "has practically speaking put at risk international cooperation in the area of security," the Russian foreign ministry said in an angry response.

BELGRADE - Drivers will be able to make an agreement to admit to an offence from the Road Traffic Safety Law only in official police headquarters, in the talks with traffic police chiefs authorised to file a request to launch offence proceedings, the Interior Ministry (MUP) released on Friday.

During the weekend security police will take extra measures for improving road safety on the major roads and highways across Bulgaria, said the Interior Ministry. 

The reason is the expected increase in traffic between the Kalotina – Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoints and along the Ruse-Sofia-Kulata roads. 

Bulgarian police is looking for a German citizen who went missing in Varna two weeks ago, according to the Interior Ministry website. 

The 28-year-old Lars Joachim Mittank, from Berlin, was last seen at the Varna airport on July 8. 

Customers of Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB), including natural and legal persons, will sue the state for the crisis at the fourth biggest Bulgarian lender.

An initiative committee has issued a media statement informing that it will make the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), the prosecution, the investigative authority and the Interior Ministry liable and will seek compensatory damages.