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Over 150 kg of excise-free hookah tobacco were confiscated by officers of the Sofia Directorate of Interio, and two people, aged 39 and 53, were detained during the transaction, the Sofia Directorate of Interior said.

Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Zafirov expressed confidence on Saturday that Bulgaria will receive a "definitive yes" on July 8, when the European Parliament is scheduled to vote on the country's accession to the euro area.

Europe must significantly increase its defence readiness and military capabilities to guarantee its own security and to be a reliable guarantor of global stability, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev said during a meeting with French High Commissioner for Strategy and Planning Clement Beaune, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

For six days residents of four villages in Sandanski Municipality (Southwest Bulgaria) have been left without electricity, Laskarevo Mayor Georgi Mitalov told the Bulgarian News Agency on Friday. He added that the four villages of Laskarevo, Radarevo, Lyubovka and Gorna Sushitsa are supplied with electricity from the same line. The Mayor said that the electricity stops at 8:30 a.m. and comes back on at 4:30 p.m.

United Bulgarian Bank has announced on its website that a technical glitch has affected card transactions such as- payments, withdrawals and POS terminal operations. The glitch affects only cards issued before the merger with Raiffeisenbank

Tourism is one of the solutions to resolving the problem of the demographic crisis in Bulgaria, Tourism Minister Miroslav Borshosh said at the opening of a workshop within the framework of the second annual specialized conference of the Erlebe Bulgarien/Experience Bulgaria event in the Golden Sands resort.

A former Italian Prime Minister, a Nobel Prize laureate and three EU commissioners are among the participants in this year’s edition of the Green Transition Forum to take place in Sofia next week. Dedicated to advancing the green transformation, it

Sofia will host an event on Friday in support of renewable fuel as part of the European initiative Tour d'Europe, the Bulgarian Petroleum and Gas Association (BPGA) reported. The event, jointly organized by the BPGA and FuelsEurope, will take place

A survey has found that younger educators strive to improve their qualification and skills. The teachers' trade union affiliated with the Podkrepa Labour Confederation has conducted a survey about the type and regularity of teacher trainings among

The production Eyes of Arabia by the Varna Puppet Theatre will be presented on the last day of the Varna Summer International Theater Festival on Wednesday.

The Sofia Opera will launch its annual Wagner Festival on June 26 with Tannhauser, it emerged at a news conference here on Tuesday.

Bulgarian Patriarch and Metropolitan of Sofia Daniil led the festive liturgy for Pentecost at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Sofia.

The Istanbul-Burgas ferry line was opened by Istanbul Deniz Otobusleri (İDO) Director Murat Orhan on Thursday with an official ceremony held in Istanbul, the Turkish DHA news agency said.

The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in a position paper that it considers the guilty verdict against Ljupcho Georgievski, the leader of a disbanded cultural centre in Bitola, the Republic of North Macedonia, to be "totally unacceptable". A court in

North Macedonia must be proactive and show that the problem with its blocked EU integration is not about including (in the constitution) several hundred citizens of the country who say their mother tongue is Bulgarian, but a policy that has lasted

A bridge over the Danube between Silistra and Calarasi would help European security forces to have a faster and better response on a larger scale in case of crises, Bulgarian Ambassador to Romania Radko Vlaykov said. He took part in a conference on