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Thirteen people died as a result of terrorist attacks in the EU in 2018. All the attacks were jihadist in nature and committed by individuals acting alone, targeting civilians and […]
Bulgaria and Romania will prepare an intergovernmental agreement to build a third bridge over the Danube between Svishtov and Zimnicea, Bulgarian Transport Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov and his Romanian counterpart Alexandru-Răzvan […]
Eighty-six per cent of the tourism trips by Bulgarians in 2017 were within their own country, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said on June 27. This was the sixth-highest rate […]
Joint Bulgarian-Romanian traffic police teams are to patrol roads in four districts in Bulgaria in summer 2019, Bulgarian National Television reported on June 27. The joint patrols will check compliance […]
About 20.9 per cent of young people in Bulgaria – aged 20 to 34 – were neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET) in 2018, EU statistics agency […]
Speaking to the media in Skopje, North Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said that he expects that an understanding will be reached between his country and Bulgaria on historical issues, […]
The El Al flight between Sofia and Tel Aviv on June 26 made returned to Sofia Airport for an emergency landing after suffering a bird strike, reports in Bulgarian media […]
Bulgaria’s government approved on June 26 a decree establishing a National Road Safety Co-ordination Centre, as part of steps to reduce road traffic accidents by 2020. The structure of the […]
Kornelia Ninova’s Bulgarian Socialist Party lacks the funds to repay the 4.29 million leva (about 2.19 million euro) it owes after being among 39 political parties shown to have been […]
The month of June 2019 has seen several newly-appointed Bulgarian ambassadors present their credentials, in posts ranging from Ireland to Israel, the Vatican, Malta, Moldova and Mauritania. (Photos via the […]
