Varna

Bulgaria will get 6% of the requested EUR 300 M under the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF), or some EUR 10.5 M, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.

Pavlova gave a joint press conference with Sports Minister Krasen Kralev and Varna Mayor Ivan Portnih in Varna on Thursday.

Bulgaria's government has decided to replace twenty-four out of twenty-eight district governors.

Only those in Plovdiv and Varna, the districts with two largest cities (except for the capital Sofia), and in Haskovo and Silistra (smaller entities to the south and north-east of Bulgaria respectively) remain in office after a Council of Ministers session on Wednesday.

Volen Siderov, who heads the ultra-nationalist party Ataka, has renounced the immunity he enjoys as a lawmaker in order to face prosecution.

Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva announced at the beginning of Wednesday's plenary session that Siderov had submitted the day before a declaration to request the move.

The Black Sea city of Varna is to be the European Youth Capital (EYC) in 2017, a jury panel announced Wednesday evening.

At a special ceremony held in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca (2015's winner), the final decision was revealed after having been taken in Brussels last week.

The 11-member jury that is to award the title European Youth Capital 2017 is to meet in Brussels today.

Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna is among the four cities that are competing for the prestigious nomination, the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reminds.

A special event dedicated to Varna's bid was held at the European Parliament.

The municipal council of Bulgaria's coast city of Varna introduced stiff fines for parking violations in the city, reports the Varna Utre website.

The proposal, tabled by Varna Mayor Ivan Portnih, provides for increase of fines for parking on pedestrian crossings, parks, park alleys, playgrounds and pavements.

The famous Russian Saint-Petersburg State Ballet on ice will perform in four Bulgarian cities in November.

The dance ensemble will present to the audience Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" and Prokofiev's "Cinderella" in Burgas, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo and Sofia.

The 28-th edition of Bulgaria's Kinomania film festival starts on November 13 in Sofia with a screening of the Bulgarian film "The Sinking Of Sozopol" (Potuvaneto na Sozopol).

The Kinomania edition in the coast city of Varna starts on November 21 with a screening of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance".

BELGRADE - Celebrated Serbian film director and screenwriter Goran Paskaljevic is the winner of the award for humanity in cinematography at the 15th international film festival in Varna, Bulgaria.

The 25-th anniversary of the fall of the Beriln Wall on November 9 will be marked by a "Freedom Run" in Sofia and Varna, organised by the German embassy to Bulgaria.

The participants in Sofia can choose between a 5 km run and a 2 km walk. The start is at 2 PM on November 9, in front of the Berlin Wall piece in the park of the National Palace of Culture (NDK).