Blagoevgrad

The southwestern Bulgarian municipalities of Blagoevgrad, Gotse Delchev, and Petrich will receive nearly BGN 80 M for the implementation of integrated plans for urban development under operational program Regions in Growth 2014-2020.

Bulgarian band JEREMY? will be embarking on an international tour in May, June and July of 2015. The list of their destinations is filled with locations mostly in Great Britain. The band recently announced its concert in London, as well as its participation in one of the most renowned festivals of new wave music by emerging bands - The Great Escape in Brighton.

According to the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were published on Friday, the Bulgarian population decreased by 0.6 % in 2014.

The population measured 7 202 198 people at the end of 2014, which represented a decrease with 43 479 people compared to 2013.

Novinite is publishing a report by Anna Bashuk, a third-year Journalism student at the American University in Bulgaria, about an exhibition that is currently on display in the city of Blagoevgrad (where the university is based).

All 198 Bulgarians working on the construction of a photovoltaic power system in the region of the Atacama desert in Chile, who were affected by the floods that hit the area, are safe.

This was announced by the owner of the Blagoevgrad-based firm Ivan Chapov in an interview for Darik radio on Thursday.

Unidentified vandals scrawled ?death to Turks? on the entrance of a religious affairs office in southwestern Bulgaria late on Feb. 22.

The slogan was marked on the mufti building in the city of Blagoevgrad.

Marieta Zaharieva has been appointed Executive Director of the Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency.

Code orange has been issued for Bulgaria's Smolyan municipality on Friday on account of the heavy rains and expected thunderstorms.

The other twenty seven areas of the country have been warned with a yellow code due to the heavy rains and possible snow storms.

Bulgaria?s Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova has presented details about planned motorway construction in 2015.

On New Year's Eve Sofia traffic police hands out presents to motorists with minor violations, instead of fining them, reports BGNES.