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Sofia Municipality's intention to raise hourly parking prices in the capital's blue and green zones, sanctions on Lukoil and the draft 2026 State Budget dominate the media headlines on Friday morning

There is effectively no water crisis in Bulgaria at the moment, Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Zafirov said during Friday’s parliamentary Question Time. Zafirov also chairs the National Water Board. Some 30,000 people remain without access to drinking

Thousands of women in Bulgaria live in constant fear of domestic violence, and dozens lose their lives every year. In response to this alarming reality, the Bulgarian Fund for Women (BFW) and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)

The government is well-prepared to handle the Lukoil situation and already has a plan in place, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Innovation and Growth Tomislav Donchev said during Friday’s parliamentary blitz question time.

At 3.4%, Bulgaria's unemployment rate in July-September 2025 was 0.2 percentage points lower than the 3.6% in the third quarter of 2024, the National Statistical Institute reported on Friday, citing the results of its latest Labour Force Survey. The

Labour and Social Policy Minister Borislav Gutsanov told reporters, in response to a Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) question, that he hoped the budget would be adopted as quickly as possible by the National Assembly.

Defence spending will account for 2.25% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), the Minister noted.

In the third quarter of 2025, Bulgaria's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.2% year-on-year and by 0.7% quarter-on-quarter, according to seasonally adjusted data released by the National Statistical Institute on Friday. In the second quarter of

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) at St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia hosted a key official visit by Professor Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council, on Friday. The university said the visit underscored INSAIT’s growing role in European science and innovation.

The French Minister of Education has awarded Prof. Roumiana Preshlenova of the Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) the Order of Academic Palms (L’Ordre des Palmes académiques), grade

BTA announces with deep sorrow the passing of its veteran translator and editor Bistra Roushkova — a distinguished translator, editor, and a person of exceptional dedication to language and culture. She passed away on November 5. Born on July 21,

The Vratsa Symphony Orchestra will perform a concert titled “Energies” on November 14, guest conductor Sandra Ragusa told reporters.

The photo exhibition “Bosilegrad: Then and Now” will be presented as part of the cultural program of the 17th edition of the “I Am a Bulgarian” festival, taking place this weekend in Bucharest, Romania. The visit of the Bosilegrad delegation, which

The exhibition, “Holy Mount Athos in Drawings and Photographs”, a collaborative project by artist Andrey Yanev and photographer Prof. Miroslav Dachev, Rector of the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, will be displayed from November 20 to

The Ministry of Interior and the Prosecutor’s Office in North Macedonia announced an operation on Friday resulting in the arrest of Ilija Stoilev, director of the Agency for Financial Support in Agriculture and Rural Development, and the manager of a company ineligible for funding through the EU Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance in Rural Development (IPARD).

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told the European Union’s Ambassador to Belgrade, Andreas von Beckerath, that his mandate would end soon and that, until then, he would try to leave a good impression on the European community, including through the language he uses, Serbian media reported.