At the beginning of today's parliamentary sitting, Parliamentary Speaker Rosen Zhelyazkov congratulated Muslims in Bulgaria on the holiday of Ramadan Bayram.
Former Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov and ex-finance minister Assen Vassilev returned to parliament as MPs, Zhelyazkov said.
Atanas Slavov and Andrei Tsekov, who were justice and regional ministers, returned to the deputy banks.
The resignation of national ombudsman Diana Kovacheva was also announced. Kovacheva has been elected judge at the European Court of Human Rights. By law, the early termination of her powers is not subject to a vote.
The Parliament rejected the request of Vazrazhdane Party to hear the Director of Military Intelligence, Gen. Venelin Venev on journalistic investigations into interference in the work of the service by the co-chair of Democratic Bulgaria, MP Atanas Atanasov.
In the 2024/2025 academic year, 2,104 students from Ukraine were studying at Bulgarian universities , according to the Ministry of Education. Of these, 1,750 were pursuing bachelor’s degrees, 304 were in master’s programmes, and 50 were enrolled in..
European Commissioner for Energy Dan Jørgensen will visit Bulgaria on 28 October, just days after US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft over Russia’s ongoing aggression in Ukraine, BNR correspondent..
Fuel supplies for the domestic market are fully secured until the end of the year , Energy Minister Zhecho Stankov said, following the United States’ sanctions on Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft. He added that the market would be closely monitored to..
By mid-2026, Bulgaria should be removed from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “grey list” of countries with deficiencies in its anti-money..
Frol and Frosia are the newest residents of the Bear Sanctuary Belitsa, according to the Four Paws Foundation, which runs the bear sanctuary in..
Plovdiv Airport welcomed the first flight from Milan (Malpensa) with an official ceremony on October 26. The aircraft carried 87 passengers on the newly..
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