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Seventeen municipalities in Bulgaria were in serious financial difficulties at the close of 2018, four fewer than the year before, the Finance Ministry said. The 17 are the municipalities of […]
Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev, who is the National Co-ordinator for Combating Antisemitism, has held talks in Washington DC with Tom Yazdgerdi, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues in the […]
The office of the Chief Mufti, spiritual leader of Bulgaria’s Muslim community, has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks on mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. Acts of violence […]
A suspect in the terrorist attack on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch in which 49 people died visited Bulgaria in November 2018, Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov […]
A total of 85 895 foreigners were resident in Bulgaria in 2018, according to official statistics released by European Union statistics agency Eurostat on March 15. The largest group of […]
A official website, dedicated to the visit by Pope Francis to Bulgaria in May 2019, has been launched. The website, in Bulgarian and in English, has details explaining the purpose […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament appointed Boiko Atanassov as chairperson of the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) on March 15, with 134 votes in favour, none opposed or abstained. Atanassov was previously deputy chairperson […]
Just a day after it announced that it was to boycott sittings of Bulgaria’s Parliament – without making clear its reasons for doing so – Vesselin Mareshki’s populist Volya party […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has sent condolences to his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern after the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch that left 49 people dead and […]
The 10th annual Trabant Fest will be held on March 16 2019 in Bulgaria’s city of Veliko Turnovo. In previous years, the event has seen about 60 of the East […]
