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The army has sufficient petrol and diesel for one year, but naval fuel stocks stand at 37%, Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov said during a hearing at the National Assembly’s Defence Committee on Friday.

An analysis on the health and demographic profile of the population of Etropole Municipality for the 2015-2024 period was presented here Wednesday. The event brought together representatives of local authorities, municipal councilors, heads of medical institutions, business representatives and residents. A similar study was conducted in the municipalities of Zlatitsa and Pirdop between 2014 and 2015. However, no similar analysis has been conducted since then.

Sofia Municipality's intention to raise hourly parking prices in the capital's blue and green zones, sanctions on Lukoil and the draft 2026 State Budget dominate the media headlines on Friday morning

There is effectively no water crisis in Bulgaria at the moment, Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Zafirov said during Friday’s parliamentary Question Time. Zafirov also chairs the National Water Board. Some 30,000 people remain without access to drinking

Representatives of institutions and experts gathered at Vrana Palace, on the outskirts of Sofia, for a discussion on labor market changes and tackling the demographic crisis. The event was organized by the European Liberal Forum and focused on ways to encourage the return of Bulgarians living abroad, as well as on simplifying procedures for hiring workers from other countries.

At 3.4%, Bulgaria's unemployment rate in July-September 2025 was 0.2 percentage points lower than the 3.6% in the third quarter of 2024, the National Statistical Institute reported on Friday, citing the results of its latest Labour Force Survey. The

Labour and Social Policy Minister Borislav Gutsanov told reporters, in response to a Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) question, that he hoped the budget would be adopted as quickly as possible by the National Assembly.

Defence spending will account for 2.25% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), the Minister noted.

Contemporary art, in a sense, is all about jazz, editor-in-chief of LIK magazine Assoc. Prof. Georgi Lozanov said here on Friday on the occasion of the new issue dedicated to jazz music and jazz festivals in Bulgaria.

When one says Ruse, everyone immediately knows that there has always been a jazz festival here, and with international participation at that, kaval player Theodosii Spassov said here on Friday. He participated in the presentation of the new issue of BTA's LIK magazine, dedicated to jazz music and jazz festivals organized in the country.

The Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) at St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia hosted a key official visit by Professor Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council, on Friday. The university said the visit underscored INSAIT’s growing role in European science and innovation.

The French Minister of Education has awarded Prof. Roumiana Preshlenova of the Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) the Order of Academic Palms (L’Ordre des Palmes académiques), grade

The photo exhibition “Bosilegrad: Then and Now” will be presented as part of the cultural program of the 17th edition of the “I Am a Bulgarian” festival, taking place this weekend in Bucharest, Romania. The visit of the Bosilegrad delegation, which

The exhibition, “Holy Mount Athos in Drawings and Photographs”, a collaborative project by artist Andrey Yanev and photographer Prof. Miroslav Dachev, Rector of the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, will be displayed from November 20 to

The Ministry of Interior and the Prosecutor’s Office in North Macedonia announced an operation on Friday resulting in the arrest of Ilija Stoilev, director of the Agency for Financial Support in Agriculture and Rural Development, and the manager of a company ineligible for funding through the EU Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance in Rural Development (IPARD).

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told the European Union’s Ambassador to Belgrade, Andreas von Beckerath, that his mandate would end soon and that, until then, he would try to leave a good impression on the European community, including through the language he uses, Serbian media reported.