Plovdiv

French actor Gerard Depardieu will shoot a film in Bulgaria, reports Vesti.bg.

The shoot starts in November in the village of Kaloyanovo, near Plovdiv.

The production with working title Le Voyage is financed by Switzerland, the production team is Italian, the spoken language will be French. In the film will also star actors from the Plovdiv Dramatic Theatre.

The annual international festival for architecture One Architecture Week will take place in Plovdiv in October 10-19.

This would be the seventh edition of the event that launched in 2008 in Sofia as a two-day conference.

The event expanded into a more than a week-long meeting and idea exchange platform for architecture, interior design, landscape and urban environment.

The European Union will allocate EUR 105 M to fighting youth unemployment in Bulgaria, according to caretaker Labor and Social Policy Minister Yordan Hristoskov.

Speaking Friday in Plovdiv, Hristoskov announced that the program would be launched in October and it would include 8000 young people.

The Regional Directorate of the Interior Ministry in Plovdiv warned that a section of the Trakia highway has been flooded, Tuesday.

The 112-106 km stretch of the emergency lane in the direction Burgas - Sofia was flooded due to an overflowing irrigation canal.

Police teams from the Plovdiv Directorate have been sent to secure the site.

The situation in Ukraine poses a significant risk to the European security, Bulgarian caretaker Defense Minister Velizar Shalamanov said, Monday.

According to him, anyone who is somehow destabilizing the institutions in Bulgaria, poses a risk to the country and the crisis in Ukraine is such a risk factor, Darik news reports.

Direct damages suffered by Bulgarian farmers as a result of the Russian embargo on food imports amount to at least BGN 10 M, according to caretaker Agriculture Minister Vasil Grudev.

Bulgaria's Customs Agency officers have uncovered a dyed diesel fuel fraud for more than BGN 500,000.

The 10-th edition of the Night Of The Museums and Galleries will take place in Plovdiv, on September 12-13.

The festival will include more than 120 events, with more than 500 participants from all over the world, at over 90 locations in the city, which recently was chosen European Capital of Culture 2019.

Bulgaria will use all means possible to fight against articles 17 and 18 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, according to Asen Kyuchukov, Deputy Chair of the National Association of Tobacco Growers.

The 3rd International Forum of Oriental Tobacco Producers takes place Thursday in Plovdiv.

It would be cheaper to build a fence along the entire border with Turkey, Bulgaria's Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Svetlozar Lazarov told the media.