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Three days after Bulgaria’s government announced that the national response staff against Covid-19 was being disbanded, outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on April 18 that he had ordered […]
The Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopolis, site of a Christian church estimated to date from the fourth century and which boasts 2000 square metres of beautiful mosaics, opens to the public […]
A total of 787 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past week, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 15 138, […]
The Bulgarian Socialist Party’s national council voted on April 17 to endorse Roumen Radev for a second term as the country’s President. Held 13 days after Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections that […]
A total of 121 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, which takes the country’s death toll linked to the disease above […]
Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kostadin Angelov issued an order on April 16 further easing restrictions put in place to limit the spread of Covid-19. The new order amends the previous one […]
Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted unanimously on April 16 to set up a committee to inspect spending of public funds by Boiko Borissov’s government, ministries and state-owned companies. The proposal was […]
At its second sitting, held on April 16, Bulgaria’s 45th National Assembly voted to approve the resignation of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s government. In the 240-seat National Assembly, the vote […]
There were sharp political reactions following the decision by outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov to disband the national Covid-19 response staff. Stanislav Balabanov, of Slavi Trifonov’s party – the […]
The outgoing government will make a decision after April 26 about whether to extend the Covid-19 epidemic declaration beyond the end of this month, if that by that time there […]
