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Bulgaria will spend BGN 7 M on advertising campaign, promoting it as an attractive tourist destination with rich history and architecture, SPA resorts and beautiful nature, reports News.bg.

Hristo Monev, Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board of Danube Bridge 2 Vidin - Calafat AD, has suggested that the car tolls could be reduced by 50%.

Bulgaria only lags behind Spain as Russians' choice to spend their holiday, a Russian survey says.

"Europe was less popular in 2014 if compared to Turkey and Egypt. The drop in demand was registered as early as in spring. This was why tourist operators optimized the summer program, trying to conform it to the real tourist demand," the operator TUI Russia's website informed Thursday.

Romania on Tuesday approved the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Bulgaria to carry out feasibility studies on the construction of two new bridges over the Danube.

The bridges will connect Nikopol in Bulgaria with Turnu Magurele in Romania, and Silistra in Bulgaria with Calarasi in Romania.

Bulgarians are among the peoples in the world who really hate their government.

According to the Global States Of Mind Gallup survey, 87% of Bulgarians disapprove of their leadership. This ranks the country second in the world after Bosnia and Herzegovina, where only 8% of the population approves the leadership.

Continuity in Greece’s defense policy will not be disrupted if SYRIZA were elected in government, leftist opposition leader Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday after a marathon meeting at the Defense Ministry.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the presidential hopeful of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) on Friday told a press conference in Oradea that the Transport Master Plan was not signed by the incumbent Cabinet, on the one hand and on the other that the U.S. company in charge of the master plan is the world's largest in this sector.

The regions of Sliven and Burgas have the highest percentage of young population, shows data of Eurostat, quoted by Bulgarian-language media.

In the Sliven region the share of people aged below 15 is 17.6% and in Burgas - 15%. The average share of people below 15 in the EU is around 16% of the total population.

As many as 52.8 per cent of Romanians say they are interested and very interested in the ongoing electioneering for this November's presidential election, with 70 per cent of them already knowing whom they will vote for, according to findings of a recent Inscop Reserach poll conducted October 2-8, 2014 and released on Monday.

By Stathis Kousounis

Online hotel rates in Greece are recording a significant year-on-year increase this month, according to the Trivago travel website. However, the average cost of staying at a hotel in Greece remain below the average both in Europe and at rival destination countries.