News May, 2007

2007/05/17

Danube Bridge 2 is part of the important transport corridor #4, which connects the port of Thessalonike with Sofia, Vidin, Romania, EU’s central and northern parts, Bulgarian PM Sergey Stanishev said in the town of Vidin, cited by a reporter of Radio Focus-Vidin.
The delegation was officially welcomed outside the building of the district administration. Now it is heading to the construction site of the bridge.
Bishop Dometian of Vidin will bless with holy water the site. Speeches will be...

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2007/05/17

The first sod at the construction site of the second bridge over the Danube river, which will connect Vidin with the Romanian town of Kalafat was turned. The Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev symbolically opened the construction.
The contract reads the contractor, Spanish FCC, has 38 months to implement the project and 12 months to eliminate any defects.
Danube Bridge 2 is a priority of both Bulgaria and the EU because its construction means opening of a European transport...

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2007/05/17

Vidin, Bulgaria - Bulgaria and Romania agreed that they need a second bridge across the Danube, signed a contract to construct it seven years ago, but actually started building it only this week.

'We have been waiting for this bridge for years,' Bulgarian truck driver Nikolay Haylesov says angrily. His comment reflects the view of thousands of his colleagues from across Europe.

Now drivers wait up to 12 hours to be ferried between Calafat in Romania and Vidin in Bulgaria, a bottleneck on...

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2007/05/16

The Bulgarian scientists will try to prove the thesis, that the rock sacred places of Perperikon and Tatul in the Eastern Rodopi Mounatian are even more ancient and mystic than the Egyptian Pyramids.
This is going to happen during the largest archeological expedition in Bulgaria, near the town of Kardjali, the director of the excavations, Nikolay Ovcharov said.
Ovcharov reminded that the thesis was expressed these days by two Bulgarian female historians. According to them the first rock cuts...

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2007/05/16

The green variant for the trace of the future highway “Cherno More”, which is to connect Bourgas and Varna, was approved, the transport minister Petar Mutavchiev said.
The highway is planned to start from Vetren, pass through Rudnik Quarter, the villages of Laka, Kamenar, Kableshkovo, Tankovo and Kosharitsa, and to come out at Obzor Resort.

Transport connection between Hemus Highwy and Cherno More Highway is also planned. Along the whole highway there will be only one tunnel, which will be...

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