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Speaking at a meeting with municipal councilors at GERB’s headquarters on Monday, party leader Boyko Borissov said that GERB had had no involvement in the public transport protests in Sofia and had not interfered with the work of Mayor Vassil Terziev.

Mortality in Bulgaria is the highest in Europe, and child mortality is 1.5 times higher than the average for Europe, the latest data on mortality and life expectancy in Bulgaria, provided by the Institute for Population and Human Studies shows.

Thousands of guests from Bulgaria and abroad gathered in Dzhebel on Monday to mark the anniversary of the peaceful protests against the forced name changes of Bulgarian Turks in 1989.

Sofia Mayor Vassil Terziev told reporters at the City Hall after the government announced it would extend an extra BGN 15 for protesters: "They created the crisis - they solved it. We are waiting for the next episode where all this will be repeated."

Еврокомисията прогнозира спад на бюджетния дефицит на България и ускоряване на инфлацията през 2025 г. Пламен Пенчев Брюксел, 19.05.2025 (БТА) Брутният вътрешен продукт на България (БВП) през настоящата година ще забави темпа си на растеж от 2,8 на

Regional Development Minister Ivan Ivanov will attend a ministerial meeting of the OECD Regional Development Policy Committee in Warsaw on May 19-20, his Ministry said on Monday. The meeting will focus on strengthening regional policy.

The producer price index on the domestic market for forestry products decreased by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the previous year, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said Monday. The sector recorded a decrease of 5.9% in

Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova expressed hope that Bulgaria will "take its rightful place in the euro area" on January 1, 2026. In an interview with bTV on Sunday, she said that the latest National Statistical Institute data show that Bulgaria has met the inflation criterion. "Let's wait for the Eurostat data, which will come out tomorrow," she added.

The Bulgarian pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka offers a vision of a world of cooperation between people and nature, BTA learned from two of its designers - architect Maria Gospodinova, who was involved in the pavilion’s conceptual interior design, and architect Hiroto Kobayashi, who designed the building.

The Yogurt Fair and the Festival of Folk Traditions and Handicrafts are the largest events in the city, said Razgrad Mayor Dobrin Dobrev at the BTA National Press Club in Razgrad during the presentation of the April issue of BTA's LIK magazine, dedicated to Bulgaria's participation in world expos. Dobrev noted that the festival now boasts one of the largest craft exhibitions in the country, bringing together artisans from across Bulgaria at more than 100 booths, with growing public interest each year.

The symbol of Bulgaria to the world is the Kazanlak oil-bearing rose, said the 57th Rose Queen of Kazanlak, Maria Shamburova, and her runners-up Konstantina Kostadinova and Tanya Chipilska at the BTA National Press Club in Kazanlak. The three

The Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy in Varna and the Bulgarian research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) are among Bulgaria’s recognizable brands abroad, said the head of the Academy, Rear Admiral Prof. Kalin Kalinov, during the presentation of the April issue of BTA's LIK magazine, dedicated to Bulgaria's participation in world expos, organized by the BTA National Press Club onboard RSV 421, alongside Lieutenant Commander Hristo Hristov.

A protest note was delivered by Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Serbia Petko Doykov at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia in response to acts of vandalism against Bulgarian military monuments in Belgrade and Nis, the Bulgarian Embassy in Belgrade wrote on its Facebook page on Friday.

The acting director of the Republican Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Serbia, Goran Vasic, has been arrested. Vasic had proposed to the Serbian government that the status of cultural monument of the two buildings of the General Staff of the former Yugoslav Army, partially destroyed during NATO bombings in 1999, be removed, Serbian media report.

The medieval rock monastery near Krepcha, Targovishte Region, draws visitors with its earliest known Cyrillic inscriptions. Addressing a local conference in Targovishte held as part of the EU-backed BTA project titled Europe on Balkans - Cohesion

The project on implementing the renewed priorities of the European Adult Learning Agenda is a good example of how European policies can be successfully implemented at the local level, with real benefits for residents, Todorka Taneva, Chief Secretary of the Targovishte Regional Administration, said during a local conference held here on Wednesday. The event was part of BTA’s Europe on Balkans: Cohesion Skills project.