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The head of the Bulgarian Border Police, Chief Commissioner Anton Zlatanov, Monday reported a 70% decrease in migrant pressure, a huge increase in the number of uncovered crimes related to smuggling, and a record number of busted criminal groups involved in migrant trafficking.

Media Review: December 22

The creation of a national register of personal electric vehicles and their owners is proposed in a bill to amend the Road Traffic Act, according to a statement by BSP–United Left. The proposal was submitted by the chair of the parliamentary

Two men have been arrested for possessing more than 400 kilograms of untaxed hookah tobacco with an estimated value exceeding BGN 100,000, Radostin Angelov, head of the Seventh Precinct Police Department in Sofia, said at a news briefing on

The inclusion of social policies in the so-called 2025–2026 Extension Budget Bill, such as the indexation of incomes of employees in the public sector by the annual inflation rate, undermines the principles of budgetary legislation and creates a dangerous precedent in the country’s budgetary policy, the Fiscal Council said Friday in a comment on the 2026 Revenue Collection and Expenditures Bill.

Large platforms and traders in Bulgaria show a good level of readiness to adapt to the Digital Services Act (DSA), while smaller online shops and intermediaries face difficulties in publishing clear and transparent rules on identification,

According to data published by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) on Friday, in 2023, compared to 2022, there was a decrease in the extraction of natural energy inputs from the environment by 20.3% to 428 473 TJ.

As at the end of the third quarter of 2025, there were 19,600 job vacancies in Bulgaria, increasing by 11.4% compared with the end of the third quarter of 2024, the National Statistical Institute wrote on its website on Friday. The job vacancy rate,

The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) provided its LIK typeface to the Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency (BSMEPA) on Monday. The agreement was signed by BTA Director General Kiril Valchev and BSMEPA Executive Director Boyko Takov at a ceremony at BTA’s National Press Club in Sofia.

BTA Director General Kiril Valchev and Ruse University Rector Assoc. Prof. Desislava Atanasova signed an agreement on Wednesday in Ruse to continue the use of premises of the Agency’s press club in the Moldovan city of Taraclia.

The Danube is a symbol of freedom, spirituality and progress for the people of Ruse, Bulgarian National Radio correspondent in Ruse Asya Pencheva said here Wednesday. She was speaking at a BTA-organized conference in Ruse that commemorates a

Students from Hristo Botev Secondary School in Ruse took part in a conference marking the 150th anniversary of the April Uprising, held at the BTA press club in Ruse Wednesday. In their remarks at the event, they emphasized the importance of

The aim is to enable citizens to regularize their ownership of the buildings they use for residential or commercial purposes, thereby overcoming the problem of illegal construction. The submission of applications will continue until February 8, 2026.

The leader of Turkiye's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Ozgur Ozel, has praised the economies of neighbouring Bulgaria and Greece while sharply criticizing Turkiye’s economic situation, the Ihlas News Agency reported.

Romanian MEP and leader of the far-right SOS Romania party Diana Sosoaca called on her colleagues from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) and the Party of Young People (POT) to unite.

Turkish authorities at the Gurbulak customs checkpoint on the Iranian border, near the town of Dogubayazit in Eastern Turkiye, seized 163.9 kilograms of heroin that was being smuggled through the country en route to Bulgaria.