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The United States welcomes the Bulgarian government’s decision to purchase eight F-16 multirole fighter aircraft, munitions and related equipment, the State Department said. “We salute Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and […]
About 30.5 per cent of Bulgarians cannot afford a one-week holiday, according to European Union statistics agency Eurostat, citing figures for 2018. Eurostat said, however, that the figure had dropped […]
The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency said on July 30 that it had confirmed, through laboratory tests, a new outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) at an industrial pig farm in […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has asked the Constitutional Court to overturn recently-approved provisions of the Political Parties Act and the Electoral Code allowing businesses to donate to political parties, his […]
Prices of housing in Bulgaria increased about 26.15 per cent between 2015 and 2018, according to the National Statistical Institute (NSI). The largest increase was in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia, […]
The four contracts between Bulgaria and the United States on the $1.25 billion acquisition of eight F-16 fighter jets, as well as amendments Bulgaria’s 2019 Budget Act and an industrial […]
Protesters numbering several hundreds, if not thousands, turned out on the evening of July 29 to protest against the nomination of Ivan Geshev to be Bulgaria’s next Prosecutor-General. That day, […]
The ancient Roman Forum complex in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv frequently delights archaeologists with things dug up – but for a change, an official ceremony saw something buried there to […]
Bulgaria’s competition watchdog received formal appeals from all four losing bidders in the Sofia Airport concession tender before the deadline on July 29, which will delay the signing of the […]
The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BNSA) said on July 29 that it had confirmed a new outbreak of African Swine Fever in domestic pigs in the Vidin district, at a […]
