Burgas

A project is being prepared to build a railway between the central area of Burgas, the second-biggest coastal city, and Sarafovo Airport, Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has said.

His words have come during an inspection of an infrastructure project in the area of the maritime station in Burgas.

Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has decided to replace the ministers from the Stanishev Cabinet who are now members of the management boards of state energy enterprises.

The Bulgarian government has given the green light for Austria to open its honorary consulate in Bulgaria.

Based in Burgas, by the Black Sea, the consular service will also cover the other two coastal regions to the north, namely Varna and Dobrich.

Radostina Ivanova-Mishineva has been approved as an Honorary Consul, according to a cabinet decision dated Wednesday.

Police have arrested sixteen irregular migrants in the area of Burgas, on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.

Their country of origin has not become immediately clear, police officials have told Focus News Agency.

The drivers of two vehicles used to transport the migrants have also been detained. Both are Bulgarian nationals.

A total of 15,105 contracts were signed on the basis of public procurement orders since the beginning of 2016, reported the Public Procurement Portal.

Four years after the attack at Sarafovo airport in the Black Sea city of Burgas, the trial for the death of five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver has again been adjourned by the Specialized Criminal Court.

The reason cited are procedural irregularities in the summoning of witnesses, including people who were left wounded in the attack.

The taxes on rent, parking, the use of alleys and other services determined by Sunny Beach AD are null and void, announced the Prosecutor's Office and demanded that these be abolished.

Heads of government of Serbia, Hungary, and Bulgaria, Aleksandar Vucic, Viktor Orban, and Boyko Borisov, met late on Tuesday.

Their trilateral meeting was held in Bulgaria's town of Burgas, the Serbian government said on its website.

There has been double increase in the number of tourists visiting Bulgaria before the official start of the summer season.

Formally, the summer season on Bulgaria's southern Black Sea coast begins on June 1, but most hotels have opened to visitors in April. The lower prices are expected to remain until the middle of next month.

Bulgarian municipal authorities have issued building permits for the construction of 993 residential buildings comprising 3,434 dwellings with total gross building area of 508,473 square meters (sq. m.) in the first quarter of 2016.