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GERB leader Boyko Borissov said his party would no longer help ensure a quorum in Parliament, casting doubt on whether GERB would remain part of the governing majority. Borissov made the remarks during a Tuesday meeting with members of the GERB-UDF parliamentary group and Prime Minister and GERB member Rosen Zhelyazkov at the party’s headquarters. The meeting was streamed live on Borissov’s Facebook page.

A new toll system functionality that monitors the weight of vehicles over 3.5 tons while in motion will launch on October 15, Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Ivan Ivanov said here on Tuesday. Ivanov, along with Prof. Oleg Asenov,

Acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov has requested the recusal of a judge from the Sofia City Court (SCC) who is to rule on a complaint against the refusal by ad hoc prosecutor Daniela Taleva (dated June 17) to open a pre-trial investigation into materials made public under the name EuroLeaks, the prosecuting magistracy announced on Tuesday. The recusal request was sent in writing to Judge Miroslava Todorova herself and also to SCC Chair Rusi Aleksiev.

In 2024, a total of 482,000 Bulgarians have diabetes, and an increasing number of young people are in a prediabetic condition, said Prof. Anna-Maria Borisova, Head of the Endocrinology Clinic at Sofiamed Hospital, speaking to reporters on Tuesday.

In 2024, 1.9% of Bulgarian children had unmet needs for medical care, compared with 1.6% in 2021 and 2% in 2017, according to Eurostat data published on Tuesday. In 2024, 3.2% of children in the EU had unmet needs for medical care.

The National Association of Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria (NAMRB) has proposed a 13% increase in the subsidy for municipalities in the 2026 State Budget, the organization’s Executive Director Silvia Georgieva told BTA.

In 2023, there were 2,197 non-fatal and 90 fatal work-related accidents in Bulgaria, according to European statistics on accidents at work data collection, released by Eurostat on Tuesday.

United Bulgarian Bank (UBB) has increased its forecast for Bulgaria’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2025 from 2.8% to 2.9%, the bank announced on Tuesday.

A photo exhibition titled “Near and Far” by Bulgarian artist Violeta Apostolova opened at the Geo Milev Regional Library in the northwestern city of Montana, the library said on Monday.

An initiative committee proposed building a monument to Khan Asparuh, the founder of the Bulgarian state, on the site of the former Soviet Army Monument, the committee's Chair, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences member Georgi Markov, said at a press conference held on Monday at the National Press Club of the Bulgarian News Agency. This monument would serve as a unifying symbol for the entire nation, he added.

A three-judge panel of the Sofia Appellate Court on Friday rendered a final judgment initiating liquidation and deregistration proceedings for the Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Bulgaria.

A palimpsest dated 1351 is the oldest document kept in the Bulgarian archives and it was presented on Friday in Varna on the occasion of the holiday of Bulgarian archivists, said Donka Nikolova, head of the State Archives in the seaside city.

The enlargement of the European Union to include the Western Balkans is a way to strengthen stability across Europe, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini said during his official visit to the Republic of North Macedonia.

Two individuals have been detained for "inhumane and degrading treatment of elderly people" in North Macedonia, after the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje launched an investigation against the owners and managers of two private care homes, the

Speaking at the launch of a project titled "Rethinking Cultural Cooperation in the Western Balkans" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Elena Shekerletova said that cultural diplomacy can strengthen trust, inspire partnerships, and build lasting friendships in times of rapid political change by promoting common values such as peace, freedom, democracy, and prosperity.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli said that imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara, should extend his call for disarmament to the Syrian Kurdish militias as well, according to the online edition of Hurriyet.