Nearly 36,000 young people, including 561 from Bulgaria, will be able to travel for free across Europe thanks to their participation in the European Commission's DiscoverEU initiative. The trips must take place between 1 July 2025 and 30 September..
The main threats to Bulgaria's national security are Russia and the instability of the Western Balkans, according to the annual report of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) for 2024. In Bulgaria, two Russian..
Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov will participate in a meeting of European leaders in Brussels today, at which aid to Ukraine and European defence will be discussed. Yesterday, March 5, Zhelyazkov announced that the government is..
The decision to send troops to Ukraine is an exclusive prerogative of the parliament. This is stated in the position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, following a request made by the US to European countries. Questions about..
Sending soldiers from European armies to Ukraine has not been discussed, MEP Andrey Novakov, a member of the newly formed defence committee in the European Parliament said in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio. He also..
It is too early to predict how the events in Syria would affect the war in Ukraine. This is what EU Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said in a blitz interview with BNR - Horizont. The European Commissioner recalled that according..
Caretaker Minister of Defence Atanas Zapryanov has confirmed Bulgaria's commitment to the joint efforts of the European Union in support of Ukraine. He did this in Brussels at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council. Atanas..
Over 1/3 of the cases of African swine fever among wild boars in Europe have been registered in Bulgaria , the Association of Pig Breeders reports. In the last week of October, 201 cases of the disease among wild boars were detected..
8,000 Bulgarians returned to Bulgaria and nearly 12,000 left the country in 2023. Magdalena Kostova, director of the Demographic and Social Statistics Directorate at the NSI, told the "Horizon" program of the BNR. 65% of those leaving..
Caretaker Minister of the Environment and Water, Petar Dimitrov, says he does not think there was a problem in the location of the air quality measuring stations. A week ago, in an interview with BNR, lawyer Dimitar Ploshtakov..
