Posts Tagged ‘Bulgaria’

Iran edge Bulgaria in friendly match

TEHRAN – Iran football team edged past Bulgaria 1-0 in a friendly match at the Hristo Botev Stadium in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on Thursday. Source

Narrow lead for reformists in Bulgaria parliament vote

Initial results are expected on Monday, but it could take days before the final official results are announced. Former premier Boyko Borissov refused to comment on the initial results saying that he rather will wait for the official outcome of the vote. Source

Croatia to join Schengen Area but Bulgaria, Romania bids rejected

Croatia will join the unrestricted movement arrangement from January 1 becoming the third country to join the borderless Schengen zone after Greece and Slovenia. However, an EU official confirmed the bids from Bulgaria and Romania to join the Schengen Area have been blocked. Croatia will join the Schengen Area at the start of 2023, the […]

Archaeologists Unearth First Century Roman Refrigerator in Bulgaria

Over the last few decades, archaeologists from Bulgaria and Poland have been performing excavations at the site where the Roman legionary fortress of Novae once stood.  Read more Section:  Artifacts Ancient Technology News History & Archaeology Read Later  Source

Turkish Bus Carrying 47 Immigrants, Deliberately Slams into Police in Bulgaria, Killing 2 Cops

    Two Bulgarian police died early Thursday after trying to stop a bus with 47 migrants who had entered Bulgaria illegally, according to Stanimir Stanev, a senior Interior Ministry official. The incident occurred at 5 a.m. in the Black Sea city of Burgas after the vehicle refused to stop at two consecutive police border […]

Turkish Bus Carrying 47 Immigrants, Deliberately Slams into Police in Bulgaria, Killing 2 Cops

    Two Bulgarian police died early Thursday after trying to stop a bus with 47 migrants who had entered Bulgaria illegally, according to Stanimir Stanev, a senior Interior Ministry official. The incident occurred at 5 a.m. in the Black Sea city of Burgas after the vehicle refused to stop at two consecutive police border […]

Turkish Bus Carrying 47 Immigrants, Deliberately Slams into Police in Bulgaria, Killing 2 Cops

    Two Bulgarian police died early Thursday after trying to stop a bus with 47 migrants who had entered Bulgaria illegally, according to Stanimir Stanev, a senior Interior Ministry official. The incident occurred at 5 a.m. in the Black Sea city of Burgas after the vehicle refused to stop at two consecutive police border […]

Turkish Bus Carrying 47 Immigrants, Deliberately Slams into Police in Bulgaria, Killing 2 Cops

    Two Bulgarian police died early Thursday after trying to stop a bus with 47 migrants who had entered Bulgaria illegally, according to Stanimir Stanev, a senior Interior Ministry official. The incident occurred at 5 a.m. in the Black Sea city of Burgas after the vehicle refused to stop at two consecutive police border […]

Russia halts gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria

Russia halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland on Wednesday for rejecting its demand to pay in roubles, taking direct aim at European economies in its toughest retaliation so far against international sanctions over the war in Ukraine.

Ex Romanian minister to appear before extradition judges in Bulgaria after fleeing 6-year sentence

Elena Udrea, a former Romanian tourism minister, is set to appear before judges today in Bulgaria after fleeing her home country hours before an appeal against a six-year prison sentence was rejected. Udrea, 48, a past presidential candidate and close political ally of Traian Basescu, Romania’s president from 2004 to 2014, was sentenced by a […]

Bus Crashes, Catches Fire In Bulgaria; At Least 45 Dead

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A bus carrying people home to North Macedonia from a tourist trip to Istanbul crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early Tuesday, killing at least 45 people, authorities and local media said. The accident happened around 2 a.m. and there were children among the victims, authorities said. Seven people were […]

Polls open for Bulgaria’s third parliamentary election this year

Polls opened in Bulgaria on Sunday as voters choose a new parliament and, possibly, a new President. Incumbent Rumen Radev is tipped to be re-elected after a run-off vote on November 21st. Among those hoping to make gains is Kiril Petkov and his newly formed “We Continue To Change” party. The party was created by […]

Bulgaria’s third election in eight months brings hopes of an end to political stalemate

Earlier this summer, fans of Bulgaria’s economy minister, Kiril Petkov, circulated a meme that showed the 41-year-old alongside another of a shirtless Chris Hemsworth. Australian actor Hemsworth, it said, was what men think women want. Petkov, it said, was what they actually wanted. In the run-up to the November 14 parliamentary elections — Bulgaria’s third […]

Bulgaria to send 350 soldiers to border with Turkey over migration levels

Bulgaria has sent 350 additional military personnel to its border with Turkey amid rising migration levels. Defense Minister Georgi Panayotov told Bulgarian media that the troops were arriving to “support the border police”. “350 people with some 40 units of equipment have been sent,” he said in an interview with bTV. More than 6,500 migrants […]

Bulgaria’s COVID nightmare that no one wants to own

Bulgaria currently leads the global rankings for COVID-related deaths per capita two weeks before holding snap elections for the third time this year, poised to be held on November 14. “Each day Bulgaria loses the equivalent of one plane crash. It is really horrendous,” said Ruzha Smilova, program director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies […]

Bulgaria to impose ‘health passport’ restrictions for Leisure Activities

    All activities in indoor public places, from large shops in malls to restaurants to cinemas and other places, will require the public to show a “green certificate” for admission as of October 21, Bulgaria’s caretaker Health Minister Stoicho Katsarov told a news conference on October 19. Basically this is discrimination against the unvaccinated. […]

Bulgaria launches COVID-19 pass amid rising infections and low vaccine uptake

Bulgaria launched on Tuesday its COVID-19 “Green Certificate” as a mandatory requirement for access to restaurants, theatres, cinemas, concert halls, gyms, clubs and shopping malls as the country faces a surge in coronavirus infections. Health Minister Stoycho Katsarov explained on Tuesday that the new digital or paper health pass certifies that its holder has been […]

Bulgaria Sees Economic Growth, Inflation Picking Up This Year

A bartender wearing a protective face mask is pictured at Bar Friday, as night clubs reopen at 50 percent capacity, following the outbreak of the COVID-19, in Sofia, Bulgaria on April 29, 2021. (Spasiyana Sergieva/Reuters) SOFIA—Bulgaria’s economy is expected to rebound with growth of 4 percent this year and accelerating to 4.9 percent in 2022, […]

Bulgaria’s President pushes for government talks to avoid another election

Bulgaria’s President has urged his country’s political parties to hold coalition talks to avoid another parliamentary election. A second vote in July failed to result in a clear majority for any party, plunging the country deeper into political crisis. The anti-establishment party “There is such a people” party (ITN) finished first in the most recent […]

Talk show host becomes kingmaker in Bulgaria’s election: who is SLAVI?

It may prove difficult to build a working coalition in Bulgaria after a surprise kingmaker is set to take the political scene in Sofia by storm. Known simply as ‘SLAVI’ to most Bulgarians, Slavi Trifonov now leads the new anti-establishment party called ‘There Is Such A People.’ Created last year during the anti-corruption protests, he […]

Bulgaria imposes 10-day lockdown to tackle rising COVID-19 cases

Struggling with a surge in coronavirus infections, Bulgarian health officials announced a 10-day nationwide lockdown for schools, restaurants, theatres and shopping malls. The new restrictions will be the last test for the centre-right government of Boyko Borissov, who hopes to win a fourth term in the parliamentary elections on April 4. The Balkan nation of […]

Macedonian Jews Urge Bulgaria to Acknowledge Responsibility for Holocaust Mass Deportations

Jews from Macedonia who were rounded up and assembled in the Tobacco Monopoly transit camp, before deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, in Skopje, Macedonia, March 1943. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Jewish community in the Balkan state of North Macedonia has published an open letter to the Bulgarian government urging the recognition […]

North Macedonia accession talks face new hurdles from Bulgaria

A row over Goce Delchev, a national hero in both Bulgaria and North Macedonia, typifies a range of disputes threatening to stall Skopje’s accession talks with the EU, due to begin on Tuesday. Sofia is demanding that the revolutionary leader be recognised solely as a Bulgarian historical figure. Unless North Macedonia’s agrees, Bulgaria says membership […]

Bulgaria quarrel threatens to put brakes on North Macedonia EU membership talks

Finally, more than a decade-and-a-half after it first applied, what is now North Macedonia appeared to be sprinting down the home straight to EU membership. A long-running name dispute with its southern neighbours Greece had seen Athens put up obstacle after obstacle to Skopje joining the bloc. But, last year, both countries came to a […]

Bulgaria protests enter 100th consecutive day as demonstrators denounce widespread corruption

Hundreds took to the streets in cities across Bulgaria on Friday, marking the 100th consecutive day of anti-government protests in the country. Demonstrators are decrying widespread, deep-rooted corruption and degradation of the rule of law. They are calling for Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s centre-right government and Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev to resign over allegations they […]

Earring Unearthed In Bulgaria Matches Those In Multiple Mummy Portraits

Fashion in the period of classical antiquity seems to have followed trends that extended much further than we ever imagined. In this case, extending from the ladies of Roman Egypt all the way to the women of ancient Bulgaria. An ancient earring discovered by archaeologists in Bulgaria matches the jewelry painted on more than one […]

Bulgaria sentences two men to life in prison for 2012 Hezbollah bombing that killed five Israelis

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Fortified Hellenistic Center And Underwater Site Found In Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, a fortified Hellenistic center has been found on the country’s Black Sea coast . A fortress has been discovered on the shore and, what’s more, a large underwater site has been located in the waters nearby the coastal fortress site. The experts believe they may have located an important fortified Hellenistic center that […]

Bulgaria: Justice minister resigns as anti-corruption protest passes 50 consecutive days

Protesters have been out on the streets of Bulgarian capital Sofia for more than 50 consecutive days, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his government. Bulgaria’s justice minister Danail Kirilov resigned on Wednesday amid criticism of his failure to address corruption as the country faced a fiftieth consecutive day of anti-government protests. […]

Full stream ahead: Bulgaria wants natural gas pipeline directly from Russia

     Amid talk of European energy security and diversification of gas supplies, Bulgaria has proposed building another pipeline to get gas directly from Russia, according to President Rumen Radev. The Balkan nation currently gets Russian natural gas by transit through Ukraine and other Gazprom customers in Europe. Last year, sales of the blue fuel to […]

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