Vesela Cherneva, foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, visited Skopje on 2 January, Bulgarian public service TV BNT reports. The aim was to make preparations for the meeting between Kiril Petkov and the new Prime Minister of North Macedonia Dimitar Kovachevski due in January. Kiril Petkov announced that once the new cabinet in Skopje was sworn in, he would meet with Zoran Zaev’s successor.
Organizations of Bulgarians in North Macedonia sent a letter to all Bulgarian institutions before the Consultative Council on National Security, headed by the President of Bulgaria, is convened on 10 January to discuss the frameworks of the relations with Skopje. Their position is that Sofia should only say “yes” to the start of North Macedonia’s EU accession negotiations when their rights are observed in the former Yugoslav republic, when the process of de-Bulgarization, the hate speech and the falsification of history are put an end to.
In less than a month, Bulgarian students have won nine medals at prestigious international maths competitions - the Balkan Olympiad and the European Girls' Olympiad, according to the press centre of the Ministry of Education and Science. The young..
Bulgaria ranks 70th in the latest Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index. It remains at the bottom of the EU, as only Cyprus and Greece are behind it. Media freedom is fragile. The few independent media outlets in..
These are some bedtime stories. This is how Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Grozdan Karadzhov commented in an interview with BNT on the words of his counterpart from North Macedonia about Corridor No. 8. A few days..
16 EU countries will ask to be allowed to temporarily not apply the rules on budgetary stability in order to be able to make defense spending. Bulgaria..
25% of workers are without an employment contract, the fight against the shadow economy should be a top priority for the state. This was stated on the..
Russia remains the main destabilizing factor in international security, it is emphasized in the report of the Military Intelligence Service for 2024,..
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