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Parliament Friday voted, 100-54 with three abstentions, to instruct the caretaker Cabinet to submit a bill of ratification of Bulgaria's accession, as a founding state, to the Charter of the Board of Peace.

Pilot screening for cervical and colorectal cancer is expected to begin in June in three regions of Bulgaria, caretaker Minister of Health Mihail Okoliyski told reporters on Friday. The two programmes were originally due to start last year.

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has opened an election observation mission for the upcoming snap parliamentary elections on April 19, ODIHR

The Prosecution Service, the Ministry of Interior, the State Agency for National Security (SANS) and the Central Election Commission (CEC) discussed joint measures to ensure lawful, fair and transparent elections, to prevent and counter electoral

In the fourth quarter of 2025, the employment rate of people aged 20-64 in the EU stood at 76.3%, up from 76.2% in the third quarter of 2025, Eurostat said on its website on Friday.

Five flights to and from Sofia, originating and landing from and at Frankfurt/Main and Munich, have been cancelled due to the Lufthansa pilots strike.

Intellectual property should help turn ideas into growth, investment and jobs rather than merely protect innovation, speakers at the Innovation Empowered: Protect, Compete, Succeed conference in Sofia said on Thursday.

The health of the economy is measured not only in statistics but in the rules and conditions under which business operates, President Iliana Iotova said at the 2025 National Awards Business to the Rules ceremony in Sofia on Thursday.

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An Academic Organizing Committee has been set up to coordinate the initiatives marking the 150th anniversary of the April 1876 Uprising. It was presented Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) President Evelina Slavcheva at an event in BAS Friday.

The Nature. Hunting. Fishing and Flower Spring exhibitions will be held at the Plovdiv International Fair from March 18 to 22, the organizers said on Friday. The two well-established exhibitions will bring together producers, traders, institutions

The issue will feature archival materials showing how anniversaries of the uprising have been commemorated since 1898, as well as coverage from BTA’s archives.

Greece has signed an agreement to modernize the avionics and navigation systems of its fleet of firefighting aircraft, the online edition of Kathimerini newspaper said on Thursday.

Romania’s Parliament Wednesday approved a US request to use Romanian bases in the context of the conflict with Iran. The decision was first cleared by the Supreme Council of National Defence and then sent to Parliament, where the session was marked

The municipal councils of Kyustendil in Bulgaria and Kriva Palanka in North Macedonia held a meeting in the Bulgarian town on Thursday. The discussion involved the chairs of the two councils, Dimitar Velinov and Mile Trajkovski, and mayors Ognyan

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Bucharest on Thursday for a visit. He met with his Romanian counterpart Nicusor Dan. Dressed in black, Zelenskyy kept his hand over his heart throughout the playing of his country’s national anthem,