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On this date in Bulgarian history: 1953: The Bulgarian Exarchate is proclaimed Bulgarian Patriarchate by the Third National Church Convention. Metropolitan Cyril of Plovdiv becomes Patriarch of Bulgaria. 1990: Federation of Consumers in Bulgaria

Nikola Minchev and Daniel Lorer, who top the list of Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) for the June 9 European elections, Thursday met with representatives of the Bulgarian community in Brussels.

The NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre (NIFC) Thursday held the Spring Session of NATO's Senior Policy and Resource Committee in Sofia, hosted by the Defence Intelligence Service (DIS).

Meeting on Thursday, caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev and Grand Mufti Mustafa Hadzhi concurred that Bulgaria is an example of tolerance and cooperation among different cultural communities.

The Commission on Protection of Competition (CPC) has initiated proceedings under the Public Procurement Act following a complaint by the Spanish company Patentes Talgo Sl, the CPC said on its website on Thursday

The Government adopted the National Employment Action Plan 2024, the Cabinet's press centre said here on Wednesday. It provides for 9,926 unemployed people to be put to work through programmes, projects and measures, and over 9,000 people to be involved in training to become more competitive in the labour market.

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.

The way dance artists view and evaluate their own bodies is the focus of the photographic exhibition "Perfect Bodies". It is a joint project of choreographer and visual artist Kosta Karakashyan and photographer Alexander Kostadinov

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.

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.