Plovdiv

The second edition of the summer festival OPERA OPEN in Plovdiv will be taking place outside the stage of the Ancient Theater. The purpose is for the art to find new fans and the organizers will be attempting to gather close to 10,000 people at the events.

A public auction for the 49% state-owned stake in International Fair Plovdiv AD will be announced by the end of June, according to Emil Karanikolov, Executive Director of the Privatization and Post-Privatization Control Agency (PPCA).

This year's edition of the international design festival One Design Week to be held in Plovdiv between June 19-28, will begin with the Being Post-Digital exhibition.  

The event will be held at the Town Gallery of the Arts and at the building of the Union of Plovdiv Artists.   

Plovdiv is a brand new and ever more attractive business destination in Europe. The town has recently been proclaimed the European Capital of Culture of 2015. The ''Trakiya Economic Zone'' project is currently shaping to be one of the biggest investment projects for Bulgaria in the near future.

A total of BGN 545 M have been registered to belong to the 259 people who have declared total annual incomes of more than a million leva. The information has been revealed after a portion of the tax declarations for 2014 have already been submitted. 

The title European Capital of Culture has officially been awarded to Plovdiv Tuesday. 

The second biggest Bulgarian city will be sharing the title with the Italian city of Matera.  

'' This title is a true recognition for Plovdiv and gives a chance to Bulgaria to come forward and become more noticeable on the European map,'' said Ivan Totev, Mayor of Plovdiv. 

Plovdiv will be officially declared European Capital of Culture for 2019 at a Tuesday meeting of the Council of the European Union.

The issue has been included in the provisional agenda of the meeting on May 19, according to Darik radio.

Plovdiv Mayor Ivan Totev and his deputy Stefan Stoyanov left for Brussels on Monday.

Bulgaria will be receiving BGN 32 B through EU funds during the upcoming program period 2014-2020 for sustainable development. The main purpose of the program will be to decrease the differences between regions, as stated by the Minister of Environment and Waters, Ivelina Vasileva during the Annual Meeting of Local Authorities of South-East Europe held in Plovdiv.

The new British Ambassador to Sofia Emma Hopkins demonstrated her knowledge of the Bulgarian language in a video address, which was published on the Facebook page of the embassy on Monday.

Mrs Hopkins shared that she was honoured to be the new British Ambassador to Sofia and together with her family, they were happy to have Bulgaria as their new home.

The second-largest Bulgarian city Plovdiv is to host the renowned Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2016, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said.

At a ceremony in the town of Jesolo (in the province of Venice, Italy) where this year's event is taking place, Angelokova announced the event is to take place between April 29 and May 1, 2016, according to news website Dnevnik.bg.