Maritsa

As authorities seek to improve living conditions for migrants at reception centers around the country amid forecasts of another cold snap later this week, a 20-year-old Afghan man died of hypothermia early on Tuesday after crossing the Evros River in northern Greece.

The decomposed corpse of an unidentified male was found Wednesday in Evros River, which runs along the Greek-Turkish border.

The body was found in the area of Soufli.

According to the police investigation so far, the man was most likely a refugee or migrant trying to cross into the country and there were no signs of foul play.
 

A local court in the northwestern border province of Edirne ordered the release of an academic and a teacher, who were suspended from their duties as part of the ongoing probe into the July 15 failed coup attempt, after they attempted to escape to Greece illegally from the province's Uzunkörpü district on Sept. 11, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Bulgaria's government on Wednesday gave the green light for spending BGN 3 M (EUR 1.5 M) to increase the country's preparedness to join the EU's free-travel Schengen Area.

State-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) group has said that it will invite a consortium of ??n?? IMI, Bank of China and J.P. Morgan Securities for talks on extending bridge financing of up to EUR 650 M to its indebted subsidiary NEK. 

After more than a month in trial mode, the Independent Bulgarian Energy Exchange (IBEX) begins trading electricity on Tuesday, its CEO has said.

As many as 17 companies can take part in the first "real" session of IBEX, out of 25 that have submitted requests to do so.

Bulgarian border police rescued on Wednesday 111 migrants from drowning in the Maritsa river.

This was announced by the deputy chief secretary of the interior ministry Georgi Arabadzhiev.

It has not yet been established whether the migrants are of Syrian or Iraqi origin, daily Sega reports.

The dead bodies of five migrants, including two babies, have washed ashore in the northwestern Turkish province of Çanakkale amid ongoing failed attempts by migrants to cross into Greece.

The second edition of the "Morocco Days in Bulgaria" begins on November 30 and will last for two weeks until December 13.

The event is organised by the Embassy of Morocco in Bulgaria and will take place in Sofia and Plovdiv.

The opening will be given with the concert "Soul of Morocco" by the famous singer and songwriter Oum in Sofia on November 30.

Maritsa motorway in Bulgaria is now fully completed after the section between Orizovo and Dimitrovgrad was officially launched on Thursday.

Thus Maritsa has become the third fully completed motorway in Bulgaria after Trakia and Lyulin.

Maritsa has a total length of 117 km and is part of Pan-European Corridor IV.