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By order of Prime Minister Rumen Radev, Georgi Georgiev Todorov has been appointed Deputy Minister of Tourism, the government press service said on Friday.

Officers of the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime (GDCOC) intercepted a channel for smuggling cigarettes from Greece through Bulgaria to Romania and detained two people near Pernik, Deputy Director Senior Commissioner Darin Kostov said here Friday.

No single issue dominates Bulgarian media on Friday, but the amendments to the Competition Protection Act and Consumer Protection Act, initiated by the ruling Progressive Bulgaria party, aimed at curbing rising prices and tackling "unfair trade practices", debated by the National Assembly, emerges as the leading story.

Bulgaria's Parliament on Friday passed on first reading revisions to the Investment Promotion Act related to the restructuring of ministries.

Bulgaria officially joined the European Payments Alliance (EuroPA), BORICA AD, the company that provides and operates the technology infrastructure of Bulgaria's payment industry, reported on Friday. As a result, the national blinkP2P service

The Minister of Environment and Water, Rositsa Karamfilova, opened a forum on Thursday in Burgas dedicated to improving the monitoring of atmospheric air quality at the national level. The event was held within the framework of the project "Improving the monitoring of atmospheric air quality at the national level" under the Environment Programme 2021–2027, implemented by the Executive Environment Agency (ExEA).

Agriculture and Food Minister Plamen Abrovski convened an extraordinary meeting of the National Food Council, the Ministry said on Wednesday.

The Vasil Levski Sofia Airport project has secured EUR 450 million in financing from international capital markets with a 22-year maturity, the airport’s press centre said on Thursday. The funds will be used for the construction of Terminal 3, whose building is scheduled to begin in the autumn of 2026, as well as for the modernization of the existing infrastructure.

The Council for Electronic Media (CEM) held a meeting on Tuesday with representatives of the media and academia dedicated to the proper use of the Bulgarian language in electronic media. Held ahead of the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and

President Iliana Iotova presented the President's Badge of Honour for contributions to education, culture, the performing and musical arts, literature and librarianship on Tuesday.

Drawings and sculptures by Valko Tsenov will be shown in Between Matter and Metaphor at Sofia’s Etud Gallery, the hosts said on Tuesday. The exhibition opens this evening and runs until May 30.

Students read excerpts from contemporary Bulgarian works at BTA’s national press clubs in Sofia, Shumen, Varna, Stara Zagora, Dobrich, and Pleven as part of the "Literature in the Present Time" initiative - the second phase of the "Literature is not a museum" campaign organized by the Faculty of Slavic Philology at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski to showcase Bulgarian literature of the 20th and 21st century. BTA is a co-organizer of the initiative.

Serbia’s Foreign Ministry said here on Friday that Montenegro’s Foreign Ministry, “without any real reason or need,” was creating a pretext for a public attack against Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic over his statement that he would not participate in the celebration marking the 20th anniversary of Montenegro’s separation from Serbia, RTS reported.

Activities as part of the CROSS LANDING 2026 aviation exercise between Serbia and Hungary were conducted at the Bikovo sports airport on the outskirts of Subotica and in Sombor, northwestern Serbia. The exercise is taking place this week in the

Turkiye and Armenia are ready to start direct trade, Turkiye's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Oncu Keceli said on X on Wednesday.

Three Turkish nationals aboard MV Hondius after hantavirus cases were recorded will be brought back to Turkiye and quarantined, Turkiye’s Ministry of Health said on X on Monday.