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The GERB-UDF parliamentary group has submitted to the National Assembly a proposal for head of the State Agency National Security (SANS) Plamen Tonchev to be elected chairman of Parliament’s committee for the disclosure of documents and the declaration of affiliation of Bulgarian citizens to the State Security and Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian People's Army (so-called Dossier Committee), BTA learned from the parliamentary press centre on Friday

Hundreds of Bulgarians gathered in the historical village of ​​Oborishte on Friday, where in 1876 the First Grand National Assembly was established, and its members made a decision to declare the April Uprising.

Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) MP Yavor Bozhankov submitted four draft decisions to lift the immunity of MPs from Vazrazhdane, indicates the website of the National Assembly.

In less than a month, Bulgarian pupils won 9 medals at prestigious international mathematics competitions – the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad and the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO), the press center of the Ministry of Education and Science announced on Friday.

Unit 5 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant will be shut down for scheduled annual maintenance and refueling on May 5, 2025, the plant said in a press release on Friday.

European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation Ekaterina Zaharieva will visit Bulgaria, the European Commission said on Friday. On May 3 at 11 am, Commissioner Zaharieva will participate in the official opening of a pilot mobile plant

The unemployment rate in the European Union in March 2025, seasonally adjusted, was 5.8%. It remained unchanged compared to February 2025, but declined compared to March 2024, when it reached 6%, Eurostat said Friday

The Bulgarian National Bank Wednesday announced a base interest rate (simple per annum interest) of 2.24% as of May 1, 2025. This is yet another month for which the central bank reduces the base interest rate, which was set at 2.39% for April. This

An exhibition by Denitsa Mihaylova will mark the opening of a new art space in Sofia. The exhibition, titled "Water - Air - Earth", will be arranged by curator Rumena Kalchev at Gallery 65 on Vasil Levski Blvd. and will open on May 8, the organizers said.

The Holy Synod has been consistent in calling for including religion in the regular curriculum of Bulgarian schools "because it is a very important subject", Bulgarian Patriarch and Metropolitan of Sofia Daniil said in an interview on Bulgarian

Russian poet, writer and essayist Maria Stepanova attended Literary Talks 2025 and told BTA’s Asen Georgiev in an interview that collective memory can easily replace history, warning that governments and social-media echo chambers often turn it into a stream of fictional events.

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.

Around 8 am on April 30, customs officers at Danube Bridge 2 (Vidin-Calafat), stopped for inspection  a refrigerated truck, travelling from Belgium to Turkiye, the Appellate Sofia Prosecutor’s Office said on Friday. The vehicle was selected for a

The Council of Ministers Wednesday approved a draft Memorandum of Understanding between the governments of Bulgaria and Turkiye on cooperation in the fields of electricity and energy efficiency, the Government Information Service said.

Sofia University Rector Prof. Georgi Valchev stated that "the presence of the Bulgarian revolutionary, writer and journalist Lyuben Karavelov in the Serbian capital was not peaceful, but contributed to his gaining invaluable experience, so that he became a central figure of Bulgarian emigration."

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.