Dimitrovgrad (Bulgaria)

Type: City

Name: Dimitrovgrad (Bulgaria)

Country: Bulgaria

Latitude: 42.060001

Longitude: 25.610001

population: 42,827

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

Bulgarian PM, Top Diplomat: Serbia's EU Progress Depends on Fate of Bulgarian Minority

The status and rights of the Bulgarian minority in Serbia are a condition for the country's progress towards EU membership, stated$ Bulgarian caretaker PM and Foreign Affairs Minister Marin Raykov.Tuesday Raykov was on a visit to the town of Dimitrovgrad ... [Published Sofia News Agency - May 14 2013]

Entities: Serbia, European Union, Dimitrovgrad (Bulgaria), Marin Raykov, Boyko Borisov

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Bulgaria opens rebuilt rail link with Turkey

BULGARIA's interim prime minister Mr Marin Raykov and transport minister Mr Kristiyan Krastev today inaugurated the country's reconstructed rail link with Turkey, travelling over the 16.9km line from Svilengrad to the border near the village of Kapitan ... [Published International Railway Journal - May 09 2013]

Entities: Svilengrad (Bulgaria), Bulgaria, Dimitrovgrad (Bulgaria), Turkey, Plovdiv

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria

Tsvetan Tsvetanov: Probably that will not be the ...

Dimitrovgrad. Most probably that will not be the last compromising materials, Deputy Chairman of Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEDB) party and chairman of the Election Campaign Office Tsvetan Tsvetanov said in the town of Dimitrovgrad. ... [Published Focus Bulgaria - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Dimitrovgrad (Bulgaria), Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, Bulgaria

Quotes

"The perspective is that with integration, the border between Serbia and Bulgaria will become a symbolic administrative line that draws together, rather than divides, people on its two sides" said Raykov

Bulgarian PM, Top Diplomat: Serbia's EU Progress Depends on Fate of Bulgarian Minority [Published Sofia News Agency - May 14 2013]

"This support we received for CEDB leader Boyko Borisov, for me and for our entire parliamentary group means that our friends from Germany expect the same configuration in the next Parliament and the next government because experiments should not are made in a severe financial crisis. There must be stability and predictability of results that we must achieve,” Deputy Chairman of CEDB Tsvetan Tsvetanov said."

Tsvetanov is local, say people in the restored flood village Beads [Published Focus Bulgaria - Apr 27 2013]