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So far, there have been no reports of property damage, Vievo Mayor Venko Palchev told BTA. Kutela Mayor Sevdalina Markova told BTA that the earthquake caused great concern among residents.

Democratic Bulgaria (DB) is calling for the 2027 draft state budget to be rewritten with a deficit below 3% of GDP to reduce the risk of slowing economic growth and recession, following S&P Global Ratings' revision of Bulgaria's credit rating outlook, the coalition said in a statement circulated by its press office on Saturday.

Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov described S&P Global Ratings’ revision of Bulgaria’s credit rating outlook as “yet another of the thousands of ‘benefits’ of eurozone membership”, claiming the country had been forced to join the eurozone

GERB urged the government to interpret correctly the latest assessment by international credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings and avoid plunging Bulgaria into further crises, party representatives told a briefing at GERB

The average price of electricity traded Friday on the Bulgarian Independent Energy Exchange (IBEX) in the day-ahead market segment reached EUR 207.91 per megawatt-hour (MWh), excluding VAT, according to data released after the market closed. The

The debt of Toplofikatsiya Sofia (Sofia District Heating Company) to state-owned gas supplier Bulgargaz is expected to exceed EUR 1 billion by the end of the winter season, Bulgargaz Chief Executive Georgi Tatarski told Parliament's Energy Committee on Friday.

In the third quarter of 2026, Bulgaria's GDP increased by 2.5% compared to the third quarter of 2025 and by 0.6% compared to the second quarter of 2026, according to seasonally adjusted data, the National Statistical Institute said on Friday.

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) parliamentary group has submitted on Friday a series of amendments to the package of tax bills introduced by the government and currently under consideration by the National Assembly.

The crew of the Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) and an official Bulgarian delegation Wednesday held a minute’s silence in memory of those killed in Tuesday's pile-ups on the Trakia Motorway. The vessel is in

Bulgaria plans to establish a permanent field shelter for scientists on Smith Island in Antarctica during its 35th Antarctic expedition, with the national flag also to be raised there, expedition leader Prof. Hristo Pimpirev said here on Tuesday.

Azerbaijani artist, curator and lecturer Emin Mammadov will give a lecture on how traditional carpet weaving informs contemporary art at the National Ethnographic Museum on Tuesday.

The beginnings of Bulgarian book printing can be traced back to Kyriakodromion, commonly known as Nedelnik, which was published exactly 220 years ago, Prof. Albert Benbassat, a literary historian, critic, publicist and publisher, said here on Monday.

The verdict in the case against 44-year-old Igor Dashkovski from Skopje, who set fire to diplomatic vehicles parked outside the Bulgarian Embassy in the capital of North Macedonia on June 15, will be announced in a week. During the trial, a

Software installed on the email server of a Romanian state institution searched correspondence involving official NATO and EU email addresses, Romanian media reported, citing information provided by ESET, a foreign private cybersecurity company. TV

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said here Wednesday he hoped the UN climate conference COP31, held in Antalya from November 9 to 20, would become a “COP of implementation”, translating climate commitments into concrete action.

In response to a question from BTA at a press conference for journalists at Cotroceni Palace on Tuesday, Romanian President Nicusor Dan said that cooperation with Bulgaria was very good.