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Bulgaria's parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs Thursday adopted by 17 votes in favour Progressive Bulgaria's draft resolution proposing that MPs' salaries be set at three times the average monthly wage in the public sector, based on data from

By the end of the summer, 80 centres for the elderly will be ready, with funding for their renovation secured through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Minister of Labour and Social Policy Nataliya Efremova said.

There is a unified position of the entire government to use all mechanisms at the European level to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine, said Bulgarian Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova at a briefing after a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkiye Hakan Fidan.

HEADLINES  The leading topics in Bulgaria's print and online media on Thursday are the government's consumer basket initiative, presented as a measure to address rising prices, the decision to suspend further military assistance to Ukraine, and the

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 total number of nights spent at accommodation establishments in Bulgaria in April 2026 was 3.2% less than in April 2025, but they generated 12.3% more revenues, year on year, the National Statistical Institute reported.

The summer tourist season along Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast will be challenging, but the industry's expectations remain optimistic, representatives of hotel operators from the Northern and Southern Black Sea coast said during the Black Sea Business Meeting in Burgas on Thursday. The event was organized by the newspaper Capital.

The Council of Ministers granted a derogation allowing the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant to conclude a public procurement contract with a selected contractor, the government press service reported on Wednesday. The plant will be permitted to import from Russia iron and steel products necessary for the performance of the contract. The derogation is granted for the duration of the respective contracts.

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 National Radio (BNR) Director General Milen Mitev said Thursday that the most important task is to maintain young people's interest in journalism so that there will be journalists in the future.

Bulgarian National Assembly Culture and Media Committee Deputy Chair Yordanka Fandakova is firmly convinced of the key role of regional media in defending people, including from the local authorities.

Regional journalists and regional news are extremely important for the entire media sector, but even more so for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT), said the Director General of the public television, Milena Milotinova, at the discussion "The Future of Regional News", jointly organized by BTA and the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) at the agency's National Press Club in Sofia on Thursday.

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.

Romanian books are being collected at the Bulgarian stand at the International Book Fair Bookfest in Bucharest. They will be donated to the Sofia University Library. The initiative is led by the Association of Romanian Publishers and Headsome