Tag: Bulgaria
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 20:38

Despite the renewed Bulgarian veto, Foreign Minister Osmani says Macedonia will keep pushing

Macedonian Foreign Affairs Minister Bujar Osmani told the BGNES agency that new efforts will be made in an attempt to break the Bulgarian veto against Macedonia’s EU accession talks, even after officials in Sofia announced that the veto holds. Macedonia was hoping that with a new majority in the...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 19:42

Bus disaster: Bulgarian prosecutors and investigators arrive in Macedonia, their main task is to help identify the bodies

A group of prosecutors and investigators from Bulgaria arrived to Macedonia today, mainly to begin collecting DNA samples from families who lost loved ones in the bus disaster on Tuesday morning. 45 bodies were found in the burnt wreck of the BESA Tours bus and many will have to be identified using DNA...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 15:32

No one is responsible, and people die – authorities are passing the buck over the unlicensed bus that caught fire in Bulgaria

According to the director of the State Transport Inspectorate Rufat Huseini, the lack of a license for international passenger transport for the bus of the travel agency “Besa Trans”, which caught fire yesterday and claimed 45 lives, is not the cause of the accident. In an interview with...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 15:09

Bulgarian road traffic experts: Bus had braking trajectory, driver didn’t fall asleep

Erroneous or faded horizontal signs, no road signals, poor condition of the reflecting traffic signals, possible fuel smuggling or human error are some of the possible causes for yesterday’s bus accident at the Struma motorway in Bulgaria, road safety experts told the Bulgarian National Television...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 14:49

Students’ march to pay tribute to children killed in Bulgaria bus accident

Elementary school students from the Skopje Municipality of Chair held Wednesday a march in the capital as a show of respect to their fellow students, who were killed in yesterday’s bus accident in Bulgaria. At least 45 passengers, including 12 children, were killed on the Struma highway. Unofficially,...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 10:49

Osmani: Identification process ongoing, transport of victims to Skopje being arranged

The persons injured in the bus accident are in good condition according to the doctors. Some have already underwent surgeries, others will be operated on today, said Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani in Sofia on Wednesday. Osmani informed that he comes to the hospital to visit them and communicate with...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 09:39

The investigation will last six months: The causes of the accident will be announced soon, but not the culprits

The investigation into the accident in which 45 passengers were killed and seven people were injured will last for six months after a Macedonian bus caught fire on the Struma highway in Bulgaria. This is what the Bulgarian experts told the Bulgarian media this morning. They believe that the causes of...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 09:31

Bulgaria’s veto remains, Macedonia did not meet the criteria for start of EU accession negotiations

There is no change in Bulgaria’s position on the start of EU accession talks with Macedonia at today’s meeting of the General Affairs Council, BNR reported, MIA reports from Sofia. The Bulgarian veto remains, although, according to a diplomatic source, Bulgaria’s planned sharp position,...
News 24.11.21 | 09:23

Second day of mourning after the bus accident

Wednesday is the second day of mourning after the bus accident at the Struma highway in Bulgaria that claimed the lives of 45 passengers, with seven others injured. An investigation is underway into the accident after the Macedonian bus caught fire on the Sofia – Blagoevgrad highway. According...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 21:32

EU ministers discussed the dispute between Macedonia and Bulgaria

Slovenian Secretary for European Affairs Gasper Dovzan said that his EU colleagues focused on enlargement and the dispute between Macedonia and Bulgaria during the meeting of the European Council today. The dispute is blocking the opening of EU accession talks for Macedonia, and by extension for Albania...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 21:28

Petty gas smuggling is a possible cause of the deadly bus disaster

More and more Bulgarian media outlets are reporting eyewitnesses saying that a possible reason why the BESA Tours burnt down so quickly is that it was carrying extra fuel. The bus was returning from a long weekend tour to Istanbul, and Turkey currently has far lower gas prices than Macedonia or Bulgaria. The...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 21:20

Complete disregard for safety rules even on the day of the biggest traffic disaster in decades

A Bulgarian TV crew came to Studenicani, a village south of Skopje, where many of the passengers who died in the bus disaster this morning lived. But even on such a day, the crew recorded a local bus driver speaking on the phone, while driving, the coronavirus mask underneath his chin. Бугарска...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 17:40

Bulgarian GERB party strongly denounces claims that the state of the highway contributed to the disaster

Officials of the Bulgarian GERB party strongly condemned comments from the caretaker Government regarding the devastating bus crash overnight involving a Macedonian bus in which 45 people were killed. Miniser Violeta Komitova implied that the state of the Struma highway contributed to the disaster. The...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 17:02

Bulgaria declares a day of national mourning tomorrow

Bulgaria declared a day of national mourning tomorrow, after the crash of a Macedonian passenger bus south of Sofia, and after the fire in a home for the elderly in the village of Royak, in the east of the country. 45 passengers were killed in the bus accident, and nine were killed in the Royak fire. Macedonia...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 16:49

Bulgaria will allow relatives of the victims to enter without the necessary coronavirus certificates

Bulgaria announced that it will allow close relatives of the passengers killed in the devastating bus accident south of Sofia to enter without the obligatory coronavirus tests or vaccination certificates. 45 people, most of them Macedonian citizens from Kumanovo, Skopje, Tetovo and other cities, were...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 16:44

Names of the seven survivors of the bus accident released to the public

While the names of the victims of the disastrous bus accident in Bulgaria still haven’t been released, the Foreign Ministry published the names of the survivors. Seven people in total got out of the wreck of the bus alive – three of them apparently from the same family, and others, judging...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 14:22

Government declares three days of national mourning

The government at Tuesday’s session decided to declare three days of mourning nationwide due to the bus accident in Bulgaria which killed 46 passengers. At the beginning of the session, ministers held a moment of silence to pay tribute to the victims and offer condolences to their loved ones. Macedonia...
News 23.11.21 | 14:15

Sarafov: Bus accident victims being identified

The passenger list has been sent to Skopje and the process to identify the victims of the bus accident, which took place on a highway in Bulgaria, has started, Borislav Sarafov, head of the National Investigation Service (NIS), said at a joint news conference alongside Macedonia’s Chief Public Prosecutor...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 14:09

Ruskovska: The owner of the transport company is at the scene of the accident

This is a great tragedy, especially when 12 children were killed, said chief Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski from the scene of the accident. He expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. I am satisfied with the current cooperation with the Prosecutor’s Office in Bulgaria. We have...
Balkans 23.11.21 | 11:08

Bulgaria to declare a day of mourning

Prime Minister Stefan Yanev said that the Bulgarian government is considering a day of mourning for the “Besa Trans” bus tragedy that killed 45 passengers, but also for yesterday’s tragedy in Bulgaria when a fire in a retirement home killed 9 people. Today is a special day. Two great...
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