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GERB-UDF has a lead of over 8% on runner-up Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) in a Market Links/bTV poll for the national elections on June 9. The poll results were announced by bTV Friday. The future Parliament might be able to

At a meeting here on Friday, caretaker Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov and Finnish Ambassador to Bulgaria Kristiina Kuvaja-Xanthopoulos discussed the need of increased cooperation between the countries in the Black Sea region

The Ruen was hijacked by pirates in the Arabian Sea on December 14, 2023, with eight Bulgarians and ten foreign sailors on board who were later released with the help of the Indian Navy.

Thirty-one Bulgarian parties and coalitions and one independent candidate have been registered to run in the European Parliament elections on June 9.

The Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) is organising a Bulgarian-Moroccan Business Forum at its headquarters in downtown Sofia at 10 a.m. on May 15, BCCI said in a press release on Friday. The event is organized in cooperation with Bulgaria’s the Office of Trade and Economic Affairs in Morocco and the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services for the Rabat-Sale-Kenitra Region in Morocco.

Addressing a high-level conference in Madrid on Europe Day, Milena Angelova, Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association (BICA) Secretary General and Vice-President of SGI Europe (European association representing enterprises which carry out services of general interest), said that Europe needs a strategy to promote competitiveness as it is steadily losing ground in the new geopolitical environment. The conference was attended by labour and social policy ministers from Spain, Poland, Slovakia and by European Economic and Social Committee President Oliver Roepke, BICA said on Thursday.

The Commission on Protection of Competition (CPC) has initiated proceedings under the Public Procurement Act following a complaint by the Spanish company Patentes Talgo Sl, the CPC said on its website on Thursday

The Government adopted the National Employment Action Plan 2024, the Cabinet's press centre said here on Wednesday. It provides for 9,926 unemployed people to be put to work through programmes, projects and measures, and over 9,000 people to be involved in training to become more competitive in the labour market.

Projects to encourage reading, media literacy and Bulgarian libraries' capacity will be financed with nearly BGN 2 million from the State budget, Deputy Culture Minister Amelia Gesheva told journalists at a Children's Book National Festival in Sliven on Friday.

The Academia Gallery will display watercolour portraits by Kiril Bozhkov on the occasion of his 60th anniversary. This is Bozhkov's first exhibition of watercolour works entirely and will be on between May 15 and 31, the National Academy of Art

The way dance artists view and evaluate their own bodies is the focus of the photographic exhibition "Perfect Bodies". It is a joint project of choreographer and visual artist Kosta Karakashyan and photographer Alexander Kostadinov

The Balkans are a highly seismic region, with Greece and Turkiye having more areas with seismic activity than Bulgaria, Corr. Memb. Nikolay Miloshev, Director of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NIGGG-BAS), told BTA.

Bulgaria’s head of State Rumen Radev Thursday said that it will soon become clear whether North Macedonia’s newly elected president Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova and the party that held a strong lead in Wednesday’s parliamentary elections will stay on the European course or take a different direction.

A book by former Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase on Romanian-Bulgarian relations was presented in Bucharest on Wednesday. Among the special guests at the event were Bulgaria's Ambassador to Romania Radko Vlaykov and Nikolay Vassilev, an economist and former deputy prime minister of Bulgaria, the diplomatic mission of Bulgaria in the Romanian capital told BTA.

An old friend of North Macedonia, Belgian Peter Vanhoutte, is back in the country, this time as a mediator for the constitutional changes that should pave the way for the country's EU accession, the website "Nezavisim.mk" reports

The Romanian border authorities have imposed restrictions on trucks over 7.5 tonnes crossing the border with Bulgaria at the Durankulak/Vama Veche checkpoint, Bulgaria's Border Police Service said Tuesday.