Bulgaria has been accused by the European Commission of endangering protected birds by allowing windfarms being set up on migration routes.
According to the EU body, the country has broken environmental rules to protect habitats and highly threatened species, like the red-breasted goose, by authorising “thousands of wind turbines and some 500 other projects… without adequate assessments of their effect.”
Bulgaria has increased the size of an officially protected area in the zone on the Black Sea coast to avoid EU legal action.
The country’s Environment Minister, Iskra Mihailova, said her ministry had rejected last month a decision by a local environment commission to allow the building of a power park at Kaliakra, but the decision was overruled by a Bulgarian court.