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Bulgarian President Roumen Radev vetoed on December 8 the 2018 budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), specifically a provision precluding the Fund from covering costs of newly-developed drugs. […]
Bulgarian banks have terminated the accounts of several cryptocurrency exchanges, according to reports and an announcement by at least one bank. In an ...
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry reacted on December 8 to Turkish president Erdogan’s statement in Athens that Turkey and Greece should “ ...
About 67.3 per cent of Bulgarian households have internet access at home, according to a 2017 survey which said that this was an increase of 3.8 perce ...
Archaeologists working at the Odeon site in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have found a mediaeval tomb, at the start of winter excavations. Human remains were found at a location beneath […]
The historic visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Athens on December 7 sparked a political disagreement between ruling party SYRIZA and main opposition New Democracy. In the first […]
The year 2017 made sure it would not be forgotten, even during its first hours. On Bulgarian motorways and roads, drivers got stuck in loads of snow. The outgoing (and […]
Two minor earthquakes, one in Greece and one in Bulgaria, have occurred in the past few hours. At 6:05am locat time, an earthquake shook Northern Greece. It had a magnitude […]
An aviation incident recently occurred in the airspace above Sofia. An ATR-72-200 passenger plane used by Air Serbia lost parts in flight, the Aviation Herald reported. According to the publication, […]
The year 2017 will last for another 23 days, and it has already registered a record number of rescue missions in Bulgaria’s beautiful mountain ranges. The country’s Mountain Rescue Service […]
