The mild weather around Europe seems to have sent many a skiers to Bulgaria's resorts.

Borovets, one of the top three winter resorts in the country, offered this weekend good skiing opportunities for its guests, mostly Russians and Britons. The resort has three runs open.

Skiers will find functional runs in Vitosha mountain, Bansko and Pamporovo.

Meanwhile experts commented that northern Europe could reap big benefits from global warming.

"The Mediterranean faces crippling shortages of both water and tourists by the middle of the century, says the first comprehensive study of its effects on the continent," as cited by the Financial Times.

According to the analysis, due to be approved by the European Commission next week, fewer in the north would die of cold, crops there would boom and the North Sea coast could become the new Riviera.

But the annual migration of rich northern Europeans to the south could stop - with dramatic consequences for the economies of Spain, Greece and Italy.

Sofia News Agency