ANA-MPA Board President Agatsa: Opening of BTA Press Club in Athens Important Moment for Bulgaria, Greece, Journalism

Vanya Nakova, Filip Pavlov

ANA-MPA Board of Directors Chair Aria Agatsa (BTA Photo/Milena Stoykova)

Athens, Greece,

14.02.2026 14:37

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This is a very important moment for Bulgaria, for Greece, and for journalism, said President of the Board of Greece's ANA-MPA news agency, Aria Agatsa, during the opening of the BTA National Press Club in Athens on Saturday.

"I am the new President [of the Board] of ANA-MPA, but I know that our cooperation dates back to 2021, continues successfully and will be expanded. We have many things in common as peoples and we must preserve everything that unites us and join our efforts to spread information about our peoples all over the world," Agatsa pointed out.

She emphasized that the opening took place on the feast day of St Constantine Cyril the Philosopher, celebrated by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on February 14. "Today is very important and emblematic, because St. Cyril and his brother St. Methodius were born and raised in Thessaloniki, after which they became educators of the Slavic peoples. This shows how many things unite us," Agatsa noted.

She wished success in the work of the new BTA Press Club in Athens. "We are here as peoples, as journalists, to have excellent cooperation," she concluded.

As of Saturday, BTA will have 44 press clubs. Of these, 27 are located in the regional centres of Sofia, Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Vidin, Vratsa, Gabrovo, Dobrich, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Montana, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Razgrad, Ruse, Silistra, Sliven, Smolyan, Stara Zagora, Targovishte, Haskovo, Shumen, and Yambol. There are six press clubs in the non-regional cities of Gotse Delchev, Kazanlak, Petrich, Samokov, Svishtov, and Troyan. There are nine outside the country - in Ankara (Turkiye), Athens (Greece), Belgrade (Serbia), Bosilegrad (Serbia), Bucharest (Romania), Odesa (Ukraine), Skopje (Republic of North Macedonia), and Taraclia (Moldova), and at the Bulgarian Antarctic base on Livingston Island. Two press clubs are temporary - aboard the first Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) and the Book Fair.

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