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Building of the President’s administration, Sofia, February 2, 2026 (BTA Photo/Minko Chernev)

In Pleven, February 3 will be a non-school day due to expected low temperatures and complicated winter conditions, the Municipality's press centre said on Monday.

  POLITICS Bulgaria’s President Iliana Iotova will begin consultations with parliamentary parties on Tuesday, after which she is expected to announce her choice for caretaker prime minister, bTV reports. Last week it became known that of the ten

Scheduled Practices at the Batmish Firing Range near Sliven will be held from February 3 to 27, the 13th Brigade Command said on Monday.

The share of Bulgarians who were unable to keep their homes adequately warm in 2025 fell to 16.1%, down 2.9 percentage points from 2024, according to Eurostat data.

Bulgaria ended 2025 with a 3.1% budget deficit on a cash basis, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday.

The financial resource allocated to Bulgaria under the EU’s Just Transition Fund (JTF), through which investments and activities are to be supported to mitigate the negative consequences of the transition to climate neutrality in Bulgaria’s three

Petrol prices in Bulgaria fell by an average of EUR 0.02 per litre over the past month (-1.6%), continuing a downward trend, according to data from specialised platform Fuelo published on Sunday. On January 2, A95 petrol was selling at EUR 1.25 per litre, while as of February 1 its average retail price stood at EUR 1.23 per litre. Over the past week alone, petrol prices declined by 0.81%, or EUR 0.01 per litre.

Kyle Eastwood, son of Clint Eastwood, will perform in Sofia on May 8 with the Eastwood by Eastwood project, the organizers from the SoFest festival said Monday.

The latest film by Jacky Stoev and Nikola Boshnakov, Aurora, will have its gala premiere at the 30th Sofia Film Fest, Art Fest announced on Monday. One of the leading roles is played by Brenno Placido. The co-writer of the screenplay is Hristo

The Bulgarian research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) plans a voyage around Livingston Island on Monday and Tuesday to collect scientific samples from several locations, the vessel’s Commanding Officer Radko Muevski told BTA

The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) will present the latest publications by Bulgarian authors every Monday in a new column titled Knigopis [Bibliography]. The column will be part of BTA’s news bulletin for knowledge and culture, LIK, under the hashtag #Knigopis.

Taxi drivers in Greece will hold a two-day strike starting February 3 to protest electric transition timelines, the online edition of Kathimerini said Friday.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that mandatory military service in the country will start either in December 2026 or in March 2027, Serbian public broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia reported. The decision on when conscription will begin

Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Communications Grozdan Karadjov is hosting a four-party meeting between Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and the European Commission, the Bulgarian Transport Ministry reported here on Thursday. The forum marks the start of practical work on the memorandum of cooperation on the Black Sea–Aegean Sea corridor, signed in December 2025 in Brussels with the support of EU Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism Apostolos Tzitzikostas.

Unemployment in Turkiye fell to 7.7% in December 2025 according to data published on Thursday by the Turkish Statistical Institute on its official website. Compared to the previous month, unemployment fell by 0.8%, meaning that 286,000 people over the age of 15 found employment. However, 2.7 million people remained unemployed.