Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov accepted on June 11 the resignation of Bisser Petkov as Minister of Labour and Social Policy, the government press centre said. According to the statement, […]
Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras spoke by telephone for an hour on June 11, with a further phone call to follow on June 12 as the prime ministers of the […]
The prices of fuel in Bulgaria have risen significantly in just a month, noticeably sharply even though it is traditional for prices to rise as summer begins, bringing higher demand […]
Exports from Bulgaria in January to April 2018 were 3.5 per cent higher than in the first four months of 2017, and added up to 16.6 billion leva, the National […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church held its own celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of the Ohrid Archbishopric on June 10, having turned down an invitation to attend the […]
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova got the backing of the national council after claims that the EU-wide Party of European Socialists (PES) would suspend or even expel the BSP […]
The 11th Sofia Pride parade passed off largely peacefully on June 9, though there were incidents as homophobic groups tried to intervene, leading to arrests. There were three protests against […]
Bulgaria’s unicameral parliament, the National Assembly, voted on June 8 to approve military modernisation projects that envisage spending about 3.5 billion leva on acquiring 16 fighter jets and 150 armoured […]
Twenty-three ambassadors of foreign countries accredited in Bulgaria have issued a joint statement of support for Sofia Pride 2018, being held on June 9. The statement noted that this was […]
Part-time employment accounted for 2.2 per cent of all employment in Bulgaria in 2017, the lowest such percentage in the EU, according to figures released on June 8 by EU […]