Inflation has been rising for 15 consecutive months but started speeding up recently due to surging energy prices.
Ruling party MP claims heroin is trafficked through the Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint on the Bulgaria-Turkey border, where video cameras in the phytosanitary lab were switched off for 10 years.
Bulgaria’s ruling coalition lost its majority when ITN pulled out, but may get the support of disaffected ITN MPs — though early elections can’t be ruled out.
54% of Bulgarians don't want their country to switch to the euro, despite plans to enter the eurozone in January 2023.
A total of 19 European governments have accelerated their decarbonisation policies in response to a combination of the COVID-19 pandemic, the gas crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Minister Boyko Rashkov outlines large-scale corruption schemes the day after ITN quit the ruling coalition amid spat over funding for road construction.
Unidentified aircraft ignored radio contact on route across Hungary, Romania and Serbia before landing in Bulgaria, where an investigation is underway.
PM Kiril Petkov vows to continue as head of minority government after ITN announces it is quitting Bulgaria's ruling coalition.
In contrast to previous conferences of the Bratislava-based security think-tank, there was a feeling that the West is no longer on the back foot and that now is the time to press home its advantage.
Arson attack on centre named after a Nazi collaborator complicates efforts to mend relations between Sofia and Skopje and unblock North Macedonia's EU path.
Minister says a propaganda war is being fought in Bulgaria, turning public opinion on the war in Ukraine.
But close to half of Globsec Trends 2022 poll respondents in Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia do not place primary responsibility on Russia for the war in Ukraine.
Government sends buses to seaside towns to remove 90,000 refugees from hotels ahead of tourist season, but few take up offer to move to new, undisclosed locations.
Two of the four ruling parties say they want more analysis of what euro adoption will mean for Bulgaria, as Sofia aims to enter the eurozone in January 2024.
Despite growing anti-LGBTI rhetoric from politicians across Europe, courts in Bosnia, Bulgaria and Croatia issued rulings reinforcing protection for the rights of LGBTI people.
Dronamics to scale up its operations and run its first commercial flights out of Malta and Italy later this year.
Sofia is under pressure to allow Skopje to start EU accession talks by the end of June, after a veto imposed for the first time two years ago, but Bulgarian officials are not sending promising signs.
The importance of the International North-South Transportation Corridor, providing Indian Ocean access via the Iranian port of Chabahar, has soared.
Prompt and decisive government intervention, financial lifelines and firms’ involvement in global value chains have helped minimise insolvencies, says EIB/EBRD report.
Kiril Petkov believes Moscow deliberately targeted Bulgaria, where top officials were divided between Russia hawks and Kremlin sympathisers, with the aim of destabilising the government.