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The European Union’s key objective is for everyone on its territory to live in peace, Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) Director General Kiril Valchev said Thursday at the opening of a regional conference of the "Europe in the Balkans: A Common Future" series in BTA’s National Press Club in Plovdiv (South Central Bulgaria).

From May 9 to June 10, the Ministry of the Interior will operate a 24-hour hotline - telephone 02 90 112 98 and email izbori@mvr.bg - for reports of violations or possible crimes relevant to the Ministry's responsibilities in the electoral process

A ceremony raising the flag of the European Union on Europe Day took place on Thursday in front of the presidential building in Sofia

Temporary epidemic-control measures took into effect in Bulgaria on May 9 and will last untill July 31, 2024 on account of the epidemic spread of pertussis. The measures were ordered by Health Minister Galya Kondeva, and the order has been published on her Ministry's website.

Azerbaijan can supply additional quantities of natural gas to Bulgaria and the region, it transpired at a meeting between Bulgarian caretaker Energy Minister Vladimir Malinov and representatives of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), the Bulgarian Energy Ministry said on Wednesday. Malinov is part of a delegation to Baku led by President Rumen Radev. The Bulgarian side is visiting Azerbaijan at the invitation of Radev’s counterpart Ilham Aliyev.

The number of insured people in the four types of pension funds at the end of 2023 was 5,000,945, growing at an annual rate of 1.58%, the Financial Supervision Commission said here on Wednesday.

Trust, loyalty and prices are among leading attitudes in online shopping. The share of online shoppers against the backdrop of global trends is relatively high, averaging 71%. Bulgarians shop mainly through a mobile phone, do preliminary research,

Ryanair will base its fourth aircraft at Sofia Airport and will start flying to five new destinations this summer season, Jesus Caballero, CEO of Sof Connect, concessionaire of Sofia Airport, and Alicia Wojcik-Golebiowska, Ryanair's Central and

The Balkans are a highly seismic region, with Greece and Turkiye having more areas with seismic activity than Bulgaria, Corr. Memb. Nikolay Miloshev, Director of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NIGGG-BAS), told BTA.

The Paris Art Gallery in Sofia presents a series of thematic exhibitions titled Masters of Realism. The first of these, Still Life and Beyond, opens Wednesday and will continue the whole May, the gallery team said. It presents some of the leading

Artist Ivan Kyuranov will be showcasing his latest artwork in an exhibition titled Beauty at Sofia’s Vivacom Art Hall gallery from May 9 to 25, the gallery said.

Artist Nadezhda Georgieva and curator Vessela Nozharova will take part in a discussion with the audience at the Goethe Institut in Bulgaria during the European Night of Museums on May 18.

Bulgaria’s head of State Rumen Radev Thursday said that it will soon become clear whether North Macedonia’s newly elected president Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova and the party that held a strong lead in Wednesday’s parliamentary elections will stay on the European course or take a different direction.

A book by former Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase on Romanian-Bulgarian relations was presented in Bucharest on Wednesday. Among the special guests at the event were Bulgaria's Ambassador to Romania Radko Vlaykov and Nikolay Vassilev, an economist and former deputy prime minister of Bulgaria, the diplomatic mission of Bulgaria in the Romanian capital told BTA.

An old friend of North Macedonia, Belgian Peter Vanhoutte, is back in the country, this time as a mediator for the constitutional changes that should pave the way for the country's EU accession, the website "Nezavisim.mk" reports

The Romanian border authorities have imposed restrictions on trucks over 7.5 tonnes crossing the border with Bulgaria at the Durankulak/Vama Veche checkpoint, Bulgaria's Border Police Service said Tuesday.