Environment

The US company Park Place Energy Corp. announced that it has obtained a license from Bulgaria's Ministry of Economy and Energy to explore the Vranino Block near Dobrich for natural gas. 

EU supporting water treatment effort in Cyprus

BELGRADE - Five new contracts on projects of public administration reform funded by Sweden were signed in the Serbian government building on Tuesday.

The projects will be conducted by the end of the year and the funds allocated for the purpose total EUR 139,000.

The European Union launched a case on Tuesday in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against a Russian ban on imports of pigs and pork from the EU.

BELGRADE - The mine clearance action at Karadjordjevo Brdo near Paracin continued in the search for non-exploded devices left over after the NATO bombing of Serbia, Director of Mine Action Centre Branislav Jovanovic stated on Tuesday.

Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture will provide fuel discount vouchers to farmers from 16 May to 20 June, 2014.

NATO investing in Balkan countries

The Alliance is restoring bridges and improving the infrastructure to assist regional countries.

EUFOR troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina demine a strip of land to enable infrastructure development. [Bedrana Kaletovic/SETimes]

Bulgarian company Risk Engineering AD will consult the government of Vietnam on a project for the construction of a nuclear power plant.

The cooperation was negotiated during the visit of Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski to Hanoi.

The price Bulgaria could pay for its threats to power distributors is high, Austrian newspaper Der Standard wrote on Sunday.

The author, Markus Bernath, argues that going to court, answering to the European Commission and facing the polls at the same time could be dangerous to the country.

Representatives of Bulgarian Photovoltaic Association (BPA) were hindered from entering Bulgarian energy watchdog DKEVR's session on Monday.

Members of the BPA said that their commercial interests had been infringed by the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) after the latter decided they could not attend the meeting, the website Expert.bg reported.