Central bank to exchange Levs for Euros as Bulgaria joins Eurozone
The Central bank of Cyprus on Wednesday said it will offer to exchange Bulgarian Levs for Euros free of charge during the first part of 2026, with Bulgaria set to join ...
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Bulgarian government resigns after weeks of street protests
Bulgaria’s governmentresigned on Thursday after less than a year in power, following weeks of street protests over its economic policies and its perceived failure to tackle corruption.
Prime Minister ...
Thousands rally again in Bulgaria to demand government’s resignation
Thousands of Bulgarians rallied on Wednesday evening against the country’s minority government and what they say is its failure to tackle endemic corruption in the European Union’s poorest ...
Bulgaria’s anti-euro protesters try to storm EU mission building
Several thousand supporters of Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist Revival party scuffled with police on Saturday while trying to storm the building of a European Union mission during a protest against the ...
Romania, Bulgaria fully join EU’s borderless Schengen zone
Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union’s Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose residents can ...
Passport checks for air travellers lifted as Bulgaria and Romania join EU’s Schengen
Airports in Sofia and Bucharest on Sunday removed passport check points for those departing to or arriving from most European Union member states as Bulgaria and Romania partially joined the ...
Lavrov’s plane forced to take detour after Bulgarian authorities deny airspace access, Russia furious
Russia accused Bulgaria of malice and stupidity on Thursday for refusing to allow Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s plane to fly through its airspace.
The plane was forced to take ...
At least 4 killed, nearly 100 injured as train derails in India
Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria will work together against the threat of floating mines in the Black Sea due to war between Russia and Ukraine, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on ...
Ukraine says Bulgaria backs its Nato bid during Zelenskiy visit
Ukraine on Thursday said it had secured the backing of NATO member Bulgaria for its membership of the military alliance “as soon as conditions allow” as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held ...
Deal reached in principle to resume Ukraine grain transit with 5 EU countries
The European Commission said on Friday it had reached a deal in principle to allow the transit of Ukrainian grain to resume through five European Union countries that had imposed ...
Tired of gridlock, Bulgarians vote in 4th election in less than two years
Bulgarians vote in their fourth national election in less than two years on Sunday, with little hope for a stable government emerging because of deep division within the political elite ...
Bulgaria says talks to resume Russian gas supplies are ‘inevitable’
Bulgaria’s interim energy minister said it was “inevitable” that the Balkan country would discuss resuming gas deliveries with Russia’s Gazprom GAZP.MM that were halted in April, after ...
Russian envoy to Bulgaria to ask Moscow to shut embassy after mass expulsions
Russia’s ambassador to Bulgaria said on Friday she would ask Moscow to close its embassy in the Balkan country after her appeal for Sofia to reverse what she called ...
Bulgaria sticks to plan to adopt the euro in 2024 amid coalition squabbles
Bulgaria’s government on Friday approved a plan to join the euro zone as of Jan. 1, 2024, amid concerns within the ruling coalition over the lack of detailed analysis on the ...
Flaming bus crash in Bulgaria kills 45, mostly tourists
At least 45 people, including 12 children, died as a bus carrying mostly North Macedonian tourists crashed in flames on a highway in western Bulgaria on Tuesday, officials said.
Seven people who ...