Customs’ officers at Kulata checkpoint on the Bulgarian border with Greece seized 545 kilos of marijuana with origin in Albania. The operation was held on 29 April with the participation of the Customs Agency, Border Police and the Narcotic Drugs unit of the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime (GDCOC). The drug was found in the chassis of a car with Bulgarian registration driven by a Greek national. It had started from Albania passing through Greece and Bulgaria with a final destination in Belgium. In Belgium the retail price of the seized marijuana is close to 2.5 million euro, the GDCOC Narcotic Drugs unit said.
Bulgaria and North Macedonia will not jointly celebrate the 153rd anniversary of the birth of Gotse Delchev on February 4. Bulgaria has not received an invitation to commemorate Gotse Delchev's birth anniversary together, Minister of Foreign Affairs..
On February 3, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov will participate in an informal meeting of EU leaders focused on strengthening European defense. The informal meeting will take place at the Palais d’Egmont in Brussels. The discussions will cover..
On February 3 (Monday), a joint contingent of officers from Bulgaria, Austria, Romania and Hungary will begin guarding the Bulgaria-Turkiye border, which is now an external border of the Schengen Area. The start of the joint operation will be..
Bulgaria received the first F-16 Block 70 aircraft at the Lockheed Martin production facility in Greenville, USA. With this act the country’s strategic..
Cabinet members, public figures and members of the public honoured the memory of the innocent victims of the communist regime in the country following..
Bulgaria’s consul to Sweden Stefan Stoykov has met with the eight Bulgarian sailors, members of the crew of the ship Vezhen suspected of sabotaging a..
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