Bulgaria’s independent English-language news and features website.
Domestic politics, stories of relevance to expatriates, organised crime and corruption, judiciary, foreign policy and popular topics such as archaeology and weather
Bulgaria’s centre-right coalition the Reformist Bloc has postponed the announcement of its candidate for the country’s November 6 presidential elections
Read more
In what has become practically an annual ritual, Bulgaria’s National Assembly on September 2 again rejected proposals from socialist and
Read more
The Building Control Directorate in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv has cancelled a construction permit issued for the 8 Odrin Street
Read more
The IT systems serving border checkpoints and traffic police have a “technical problem” which could lead to problems in the
Read more
Four United States F-15 tactical fighter aircraft arrived on September 1 at Bulgaria’s Graf Ignatievo air base, about 10km from
Read more
One of the more disturbing effects of the refugee crisis is the increasing number of unaccompanied minors. As Emanuela Barbiroglio
Read more
The leaders’ council of the centre-right coalition Reformist Bloc has proposed naming Traicho Traikov, formerly a minister in Boiko Borissov’s
Read more
A growing number of politicians in Bulgaria want to divert the country from its Euro-Atlantic course of development, President Rossen
Read more
Bulgarian Prime Minister and centre-right GERB party leader Boiko Borissov says that he will stand as a candidate in presidential
Read more