Bulgaria helps Croatia with 100,000 euros



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Bulgaria will help Croatia with 100,000 euros to recover from the devastating earthquake. This was announced at a press conference by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ekaterina Zaharieva. The earthquake killed at least seven people and injured more than 25.

“Today, at its meeting, the Council of Ministers adopted a decision by which the Bulgarian government decided to grant 100,000 euros in initial aid to Croatia. We asked our embassy to investigate the larger damages. We decided to go to 2 iconic buildings that are connected. with Bulgarian history: Gornograd secondary school in Zagreb and the Academy of Sciences, “said Zaharieva.

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Bulgarian students, scholars from the Exarchate of Bulgaria, including from the region of the present Republic of North Macedonia, such as Krastyu Sarafov, Lubomir Miletich and Dimitar Shishmanov, studied at the Gornograd secondary school. A special high school guest in the 1860s was Konstantin Miladinov, who presented his collection “Bulgarian Folk Songs” to students, published with the financial support of Bishop Josip Strossmayer.

The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the successor to the South Slavic Academy, founded by Bishop Josip Strossmayer, who in the 1970s, before the Liberation of Bulgaria, retained five seats for representatives of Bulgaria. Among the first Bulgarian members of this Academy are Marin Drinov and Stefan Bobchev.

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“There is still a problem with the water supply in the affected areas, so we had a meeting with the Minister of Economy. We spoke with the Bulgarian Red Cross, as well as with the mineral water producers. We already have information that two large Producers from Smolyan and Velingrad will provide a truck with water, “added Zaharieva.



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