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The lack of a National Paediatric Hospital is a major concern, Bulgarian Paediatric Association (BPA)Chairman Ivan Litvinenko told BTA on Thursday. He spoke at the start of the 16th National Congress of Paediatrics in Borovets.

The parliamentary Committee on Culture and Media voted, 6-2 with two abstentions, to reject the Foreign Agents Registration Bill on first reading here on Thursday. The bill was proposed by Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov.

On Thursday, the leadership of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms headed by Honorary Chair Ahmed Dogan started consultations on the candidates lists for the October 27, 2024 snap parliamentary elections, Dzhevdet Chakarov, one of two rival MRF

Bulgaria continues to rank first in the European Union (EU) in the number of road traffic fatalities per million population, said Chief Inspector Yordan Milushev from the Traffic Police Department of the National Police Directorate General. Driving

The ban on exporting insulin and antibiotics designed for regular use by children has been extended until October 21, the Health Ministry said.

German Embassy Economic Section Head Moritz Seiler said that combining the potential of Bulgaria's digital sector with the defence industry can result in huge development and the current Government understands it. Seiler took part in Thursday’s business forum on innovations in the sector organized by the news website Economic.bg.

If the companies do not adapt their ships to the new requirements and eco-standards, they will drop out of the market, said Captain Stanislav Stoyanov, chair of the Board of the Bulgarian Association of Sea Captains, before the opening of the Global Compass International Forum on Thursday in Varna.

There is a serious potential for boosting trade and economic relations between Bulgaria and the Kyrgyz Republic. This transpired at a meeting between Economy and Industry Minister Petko Nikolov and newly appointed Kyrgyz Ambassador Idris

More than 40 contemporary Bulgarian artists and over 60 current works of art will be offered at an international live auction at the Doza gallery and online on the British platform The Auction Collective. The auction will take place between September 26 and October 11.

The 7th International Conference on the Roman Danubian Provinces will take place in Sofia and Vidin (on the Danube) between September 24 and 28, 2024, the National Archaeological Institute with Museum (NAIM) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences said on Thursday.

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and the Romanian Academy signed a new cooperation agreement at a ceremony in Bucharest on Tuesday. The agreement is part of the initiative to celebrate BAS's 155th anniversary.

Vice President Iliana Iotova met with participants in the third international travelling conference "Picturesque Bulgaria", the President's press office said on Wednesday. The multidisciplinary project, which is held under the auspices of the Vice

Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, There Is Such a People (TISP) MP Stanislav Balabanov said that North Macedonia will not enter the European Union if its politicians continue behaving the way they do. His statement was prompted by an interview North Macedonia's Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski gave to TV Alfa on Wednesday, criticizing the absence of his country's national flag in a photo of Presidents Rumen Radev and Gordana Siljanovska during Siljanovska's visit to Sofia on September 13. Nikoloski stating that "both the [Bulgarian] political parties and the President are trying to gain advantages at the expense of [North] Macedonia."

"I believe that if we are to continue our normal relations, this person should resign, otherwise it will be very hard to have normal relations between two neighbouring countries," he added.

Commenting on Wednesday's claims by North Macedonia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski, Elena Borislavova MP of Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) said that such language is inadmissible.

The majority of the population in the Republic of North Macedonia is of Bulgarian origin, speaks Bulgarian and belongs to Bulgarian culture - including Minister Nikoloski, Vazrazhdane said in a statement on Wednesday, reacting to the remarks of