Free English Service
Купуването и продаването на гласове са престъпления!9asd-
PM Borissov: There Can't Be Political Forgiveness, Human Oblivion nor Statutes of Limitation for So-called Regeneration ...
December 29 (BTA) - There can't be political forgiveness, human oblivion nor statutes of limitations for the so-called regeneration process of forcible assimilation of ethnic Turks during communist-era Bulgaria, said Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in a Facebook post on Monday...
-
Four MPs Quit BwC Coalition, But Not Its Parliamentary Group
December 29 (BTA) - Four MPs of "Bulgaria without Censorship" (BwC) quit the coalition on Monday but remained in the BwC-controlled parliamentary group of the Bulgarian Democratic Centre (BDC), the BDC press office said.
-
Border Police Director Penov Resigns
December 29 (BTA) - Border Police Director Zaharin Penov has tendered his resignation, which was accepted by Interior Minister Vesselin Vouchkov, the Vouchkov said during a news conference Monday after meeting with the leaders of his Ministry's trade unions. Penov tendered h...
-
Prison Guards Stage Protest Again Demanding Higher Wages, Better Working Conditions
December 29 (BTA) - Prison guards from a few penitentiaries across the country protested again on Monday to demand higher wages and better working conditions.
-
Four Bulgarians Rescued from Burning Italian Ferry
December 29 (BTA) - The number of Bulgarians rescued from the burning Italian-flagged car ferry "Norman Atlantic" increased to four after two women, R. Todorova and S. Bozhilova, were added to the list on Monday morning, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry reported.
-
Nine Bulgarians Supposed to Be on Board Italian Ferry Burning Off Greek Coast
December 28 (BTA) - According to the manifest, nine Bulgarians are supposed to be on board the Italian-flagged car ferry "Norman Atlantic", which caught fire off the coast of Greece early Sunday morning while sailing from Patra, Greece, to Ancona, Italy, BTA learnt from the P...
-
8 Kg Heroin Hauled at Border with Turkey
December 28 (BTA) - Some 7.7 kg of heroin was seized by customs inspectors at the Kapitan Andreevo Checkpoint on Bulgaria's border with Turkey, the National Customs Agency said on Sunday.
-
Reformist Bloc's Zelenogorski: "Patriotic Front Has Distinct Euro-Atlantic Values"
December 27 (BTA) - "As far as I am concerned, the Patriotic Front espouses clearly expressed Euro-Atlantic values and shares the civilization choice that Bulgaria has made," Reformist Bloc Co-floor Leader Nayden Zelenogorski said here on Saturday. He was reacting to a state...
-
One Police Officer Killed, 14 Injured in Road Traffic Accident
December 26 (BTA) - A ZIL-131 off-road truck carrying 15 Interior Ministry employees capsized in a 4-metre-deep gully near the Village of Gorno Yabulkovo, Sredets Municipality (Southeastern Bulgaria), at half past midnight , Interior Minister Vesselin Vouchkov told a news br...
-
"Social Policy Failed in 2014," Ex-Labour Minister Says
December 26 (BTA) - "Social policy did not make much progress during the outgoing year," Balkan Institute for Labour and Social Policy Steering Committee Chairman Ivan Neykov commented to BTA.
-
MRF Leader Mestan:"Early Elections in 2015 Will Be Inevitable unless GERB Disowns Patriotic Front"
December 26 (BTA) - "I am pessimistic about 2015 because GERB did not dissociate themselves from the Patriotic Front; therefore, early parliamentary elections in 2015 are an inevitable necessity," Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) leader Lyutvi Mestan told a news confe...
-
12th Bulgarian Christmas Charity Campaign Raises Lv 1.5 Mln
December 26 (BTA) - The 12th annual Bulgarian Christmas charity campaign collected nearly 1.5 million leva in support of children with congenital diseases, it emerged after the end of a fund-raising performance that took place at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre on Christmas ...
-
Bulgarian SPA Tourism Union Wants Bulgarian, EU Legislation Synchronized, so that European Health Insurance Funds Can be...
December 25 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Union of Balneology and SPA Tourism (BUBSPA) wants Bulgarian and EU legislation to be synchronized, so that European health insurance funds can be utilized, reads a declaration, presented by BUBSPA President Stefan Sharlopov here during the U...
-
Bulgaria Celebrates Christmas
December 25 (BTA) - In his Christmas address during a Thursday Holy Liturgy at the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria's Patriarch Neofit said: "Lets use these brightest days of Nativity to not only further reinforce our faith in God and His gracious providence,...
-
Illicit Cigarette Market Share Takes Up to 20-25% of Total Tobacco Products Consumption Since Spring of 2014, Expert Sa...
December 25 (BTA) - The sustainable growth of the illicit cigarette market in Bulgaria has reached 20-25 per cent of the total consumption of tobacco products since the spring of 2014, Tihomir Bezlov of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) told BTA in an interview.
-
Consumer Protection Commission Acts on Own Initiative about Electricity Billing Period
December 24 (BTA) - The Commission for Consumer Protection (CCP) acted on its own initiative about the control exercised over electricity distribution companies (EDC) when keeping up with the monthly electricity billing deadlines. The topic was brought up during the Council o...
-
Socialists Consider Demanding Education and Science Minister's Resignation
December 24 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is considering to demand the resignation of the Education and Science Minister over his remarks about world-famous scientists, which he made during an open lesson in a school in Vratsa (Northwest Bulgaria), reads a posi...
-
The Living Tradition of the Handmade Christmas Ornaments
December 24 (Ekaterina Terzieva of BTA) - Do you remember the delicate blown-glass bells, snowmen and stars from the Christmas trees from the old days? If you have not kept one as a childhood souvenir, you will find it hard to obtain one nowadays because the tradition of mak...
-
Missing Former SANS Head Petko Sertov Was at Athens Hotel for Two Days, Interior Ministry Says
December 23 (BTA) - The missing former head of the State Agency for National Security (SANS), Petko Sertov, stayed at a hotel in Athens for two days, said the Interior Ministry's Chief Secretary Svetlozar Lazarov on Tuesday. Sertov has been on the national wanted list since...
-
Justice Minister Ivanov Schedules Extraordinary Meeting of Supreme Judicial Council on January 8
December 23 (BTA) - Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov scheduled an extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on January 8, said the Justice Ministry in a Tuesday press release.
Weather for 15 December 2025
Currency Rates
EUR 1.9558
USD 1.7284
CHF 1.8677