Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad Province

The road between the villages of Marchevo and Garmen was blocked Sunday at around 10 am and lasted for a little over four hours.

All cars had to use an alternative route passing through the town of Gotse Delchev. Police forces were also deployed on site.

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.

An act of provocation was committed in front of the Blagoevgrad mosque on March 3, prior the celebrations of Bulgarian Liberation from the Ottoman Empire.

Several pork legs and two animal hearts have been thrown right at the gate of the temple in the Southwestern Bulgarian city.

Bulgarian tobacco producers are staging a nationwide protest over the distribution of state subsidies.

Tobacco producers will organize road blocks at the Danube Bridge, the road to Greece at Gotse Delchev, and the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing point on the Bulgarian-Greek border at noon on Friday, according to reports of Sega daily.

The purchase price of tobacco in Bulgaria has plummeted to BGN 3.80-4, hitting a 15-year low, according to industry representatives.

Over 30% of the tobacco producers in the southwestern region of Gotse Delchev have said they are leaving the business and the country, according to the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

Tobacco producers from the Bulgarian district of Gotse Delchev are to protest on Friday and Saturday against the delayed purchase campaign and the low purchase prices of this year's harvest.

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