Hundreds of people have evacuated their homes after damaging floods swept through villages in central Bulgaria. Torrential rain from 02 September 2022 caused rivers and streams to overflow flooding several…
Dozens of homes were damaged after a torrential downpour in Sliven Province, Bulgaria, 26 June 2021. Officials say as much as 60 mm of rain fell in the space of…
Severe weather including heavy rain and snow has affected areas of South Eastern Europe over the last few days, with flooding reported in parts of Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Serbia and…
Areas around Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, were hit by heavy rain, lightning strikes and strong winds during an overnight storm 06 to 07 July. Emergency services received 750 calls for…
Homes have been flooded and several roads and bridges closed after heavy rain caused rivers to overflow in Bulgaria and Romania. Bulgaria Officials in Bulgaria reported earlier today that the…
Over 70 mm of rain fell in the port city of Varna on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, flooding streets and causing severe traffic disruption. As much as 71.5 mm of…
Several rivers in the Balkans have broken their banks over the last few days, causing flooding in parts of northern Greece, southeastern Bulgaria and northwestern Turkey. Greece Update: On 30…
Damage to vulnerable infrastructure caused by climate hazards could triple by the 2020s and rise over ten-fold by the end of the century. LONDON, 1 December, 2017 – Europeans need…
At least 3 people died after torrential rain between 24 and 25 October triggered flooding in the province of Burgas, south east Bulgaria. Burgas provincial government announced a state of…
PARIS, Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three Balkan nations – hard hit by severe flooding – were among the six countries most affected by extreme weather events in 2014,…
According to a study by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) – European Commission’s in-house science service – river floods in Europe could directly affect more than half a million people…
The European Commission is set to grant an aid package worth €16.2 million (US$18 million) to Greece and Bulgaria following natural disasters that occurred in the winter of 2015. Greece…
Heavy rain in northern Bulgaria on 24 May 2015 triggered flooding in parts of Vratsa Province. The town of Mezdra, which sits near the banks of the Iskar river, was…
Last week the European Commission (EC) announced plans to grant aid worth €66.5 million from the European Union Solidarity Fund to Bulgaria, Italy and Romania following the flood disasters in…
The heavy rain that swept across southern Europe over the last few days has left 100,000 people in the Republic of Macedonia affected by flooding. The worst affected areas are…
Heavy rainfall across parts of southern Europe brought severe flooding to Greece, Albania and Bulgaria, prompting hundreds of evacuations. Two people have died and 3 are currently missing in the…
