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At a news briefing on Thursday, Bulgarian President Iliana Iotova said that she had no reason to doubt Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov's statement that there are currently no available weapons stocks to be sent to Ukraine.  "The Defence Minister

Military personnel have destroyed parts of an unmanned aerial vehicle found by fishing vessels, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday.

President Iliana Iotova signed a decree appointing Nikolay Nenovsky member of the Governing Council of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), effective June 13, the President’s Press Secretariat said on Thursday.

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) Vice President Prof. Emanuel Mutafov attended a working lunch with India's Minister of External Affairs, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, during his official visit to Bulgaria on June 10, the Academy reported.

More than EUR 118 million in funding under the Strategic Plan for the Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas for 2025 has been "irretrievably lost," Minister of Agriculture and Food Plamen Abrovsky said during a hearing before the parliamentary

The State will protect farmers whenever there are alerts about pressure or unfair practices that hinder their operations, Agriculture and Food Minister Plamen Abrovsky said during a meeting with the leadership of the Fruit and Vegetable Branch

The airports in Burgas and Varna have modernized infrastructure and are ready to handle significantly higher passenger volumes in the coming years, Michael Reusch, CEO of Fraport Twin Star Airport Management AD, said during the Meeting of businesses from the Black Sea Region in Burgas.

He was speaking at the opening of a national information event on “Cultural Routes – Bulgaria 2026,” which is held Plovdiv and Hisarya on Thursday and Friday.

The first meeting of the organizing committee to run and coordinate the preparation and holding of the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest took place at the Council of Ministers, the Government press service said on Thursday.

Bulgaria’s participation in the certified Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe was among the main topics of the first panel of the National Information Event "Cultural Routes – Bulgaria 2026", which is being held in Plovdiv and Hisarya on Thursday and Friday.

Action in Bulgaria on cases involving pressure and threats against journalists is often taken only after the issue gains international attention, said Maria Cheresheva, a founding member and Management Board member of the Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria).

Back since 2016, the Union of Bulgarian Journalists (UBJ) has been drafting proposals to initiate legislation protecting journalists' rights and media freedom, said UBJ Managing Board President Snezhana Todorova.

Bulgarian President Iliana Iotova and her Slovenian counterpart, Natasa Pirc Musar, discussed the process of European integration of the Western Balkans here on Wednesday, the presidential press secretariat reported. The discussion was held as part of the South-East European Cooperation Process summit hosted by Iotova.

The Council of Ministers has approved a draft Memorandum with the Government of the Republic of Serbia to determine the conditions for opening a joint checkpoint Kalotina 2 (Republic of Bulgaria) and Gradina 2 (Republic of Serbia), the government

The case involving Iva Mihaylova, who holds Bulgarian citizenship and was injured in a road incident in the town of Kocani eight months ago and still awaiting charges, falls under the jurisdiction of North Macedonia’s judiciary, Foreign Minister Timco Mucunski said in Sofia on Wednesday, responding to questions about why authorities in Kocani have not allowed her to travel to Bulgaria for medical treatment.

North Macedonia’s President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova said in an interview with MRT 1 on Monday that she will meet Bulgarian President Iliana Iotova during the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) summit, to be held in Sofia on June 10.