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The Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” has condemned as completely unacceptable the support declared for the Lukov March by Angel Dzhambazki, the ultra-nationalist VMRO’s candidate for Sofia mayor. […]
Controversy has erupted after a Sofia municipal election candidate used an inappropriate reference to the Holocaust in a statement on the topic of tra ...
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first eight months of the year stood at 603.5 million euro, the equivalent of one per cent of the gross d ...
Herro Mustafa, the US ambassador to Bulgaria, presented her credentials to Bulgarian President Roumen Radev October 18. Before her appointment to Bulg ...
Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said on October 18 that it would put a new 50 leva bill in circulation starting November 1, the second new banknote in less than 12 […]
A week is left to the end of official campaigning in Bulgaria’s autumn 2019 mayoral and municipal elections, before voters are called to the ballot boxes on October 27. In […]
Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on October 17 that it would open a pre-trial investigation against one person, while declining to start proceedings against eight others detained after the racism-marred Bulgaria-England [&hel ...
In a joint declaration on October 17, 12 Bulgarian NGOs called for the country to have a policy of zero tolerance towards racism and hatred. The joint declaration was issued […]
Statutory broadcast regulator the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) voted unanimously on October 17 to dismiss Svetoslav Kostov as director-general of Bulgarian National Radio. All five members of CEM said […]
Bulgaria believes that postponing the start of European Union membership talks with the Republic of North Macedonia and Albania would be a real mistake and would destabilise the region, Foreign […]
