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More than 1,200 residents of Pernik’s Teva borough have petitioned the municipality against a plan by a mining company to mine brown coal at the nearby Stara Teva site, the local administration said on Tuesday. The concession area lies close to the

Bulgaria must have a stable government that defends the national interest, said the National Assembly Nataliya Kiselova during the meeting of the leadership of the National Council and the Sofia City Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP). Ministers from the BSP-United Left quota also joined the conversation. The desire is to realistically work on the formation’s pre-election goals, added Kiselova.

The Feast Day of St George, which is celebrated as a Day of Valour and of the Bulgarian Armed Forces, will be marked in central Sofia on May 6 by a blessing of the colours and with a military parade, the Ministry of Defence press service reported.

Amnesty International Bulgaria presented its annual State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2025 report on Tuesday.

Tourism Minister Miroslav Borshosh met with Abdulrahman Ahmed Al Jaber, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Arab Emirates to Bulgaria. The meeting focused on the development of bilateral cooperation in the field of tourism as a strategic area of ​​cooperation, the Bulgarian Tourism Ministry said here on Tuesday.

Bulgaria’s financial system stayed relatively stable in 2024, the annual SANS report published on the Council of Ministers’ website on Tuesday said, adding that adopting the single European currency is a key national priority, banks retain solid capital adequacy and high liquidity, and most have already adapted their IT systems for euro use.

GERB-UDF Deputy Floor Leader and Parliament's Committee on Labor and Social Policy Chair Denitsa Sacheva responded to journalist’s questions in the corridors of the National Assembly on Tuesday. When asked about the MPs proposals for changes aimed at improving the pension model, Sacheva said that the social security contributions for pensions will probably have to be increased in the medium term “because we cannot expect to get more and more services and higher pensions with one and the same contribution.”

The Bulgarian Ministry of Economy and Industry is trying to find a new investor for the Stamboliyski paper mill, aiming to preserve production capacity and protect local jobs. During a Q&A parliamentary session, Economy Minister Petar Dilov

Sofia University Rector Prof. Georgi Valchev and the Austrian Ambassador to Bulgaria Andrea Ikic-Bohm signed a new agreement regulating the status of the Austrian Library Dr. Wolfgang Kraus, the University’s press office announced on Tuesday.

Cambridge Day — one of the leading events for English teachers in Bulgaria — brought together nearly 400 specialists, teachers, and educators to discuss the future of language teaching in the country.

In a discussion with rectors from Bulgaria's technical universities, Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev presented a set of proposed reforms aimed at strengthening technical higher education and addressing the country’s skills

Rectors of Bulgaria’s technical universities Monday supported the introduction of mandatory math exams to strengthen engineering education. They gathered at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Geodesy (UACEG) for a meeting with

The St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia has launched a project focused on the cultural ties between Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia, the university said in a press release on Tuesday. The project, titled "CULTURAL AREA - CULTURAL heritage community and AttRactive all-sEAson tourism" is part of the Integrated Development of the Cross-Border Region territorial strategy under the INTERREG VI-A IPA Bulgaria – North Macedonia 2021–2027 programme.

The Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee in the European Parliament Ilhan Kyuchyuk has officially referred the issue of the fully completed Rudozem–Xanthi but still unopened border crossing to the European Commission, according to a press release

After completing their bike ride to Strasbourg on April 15, a group of Serbian students set off on Friday to run the distance from Novi Sad to Brussels within 18 days. “No one’s tired! We’re running to Brussels!” is the slogan of the students, who

Representatives of various sectors who have worked on projects supported by the EU Cohesion Policy participated in a conference at the National Press Club of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) in Troyan on Friday. The event was part of BTA's "Europe on Balkans: Cohesion Skills" project.