On their professional holiday – 29 January – guards in prisons, places of detention and courthouse buildings in Bulgaria are organizing the latest in a string of protests demanding decent wages and better working conditions.
In Sofia, the protest started early this morning at the entrance to the Sofia Regional Courthouse. Demonstrations are also taking place in other towns across the country. The prison staff trade union says that the protest campaign mottoed “Europe for us too” will continue through the months of Bulgaria’s Presidency of the Council of the EU.
A new draft law on the state budget for 2025 will be submitted to the Council of Ministers by 14 February, along with draft laws on the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund and the State Social Insurance Fund. This was promised by Finance Minister..
During the night, the cloud cover will be significant. There will be fog in many places in the plains and valleys. The weather will be almost calm in most regions. There will be moderate southerly and southwesterly winds in Eastern Bulgaria and north..
Scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) presented facts refuting speculations in Serbia that challenge the national identity of Bulgarians in the Western Outlands. In mid-January, our compatriots there sent a letter to Serbian..
Bulgarian exports to the USA in 2023 are worth 1.1 billion dollars, and number 1 on the export list with a share of nearly 19 percent are "coins that..
Swedish authorities have detained a ship suspected of sabotaging an undersea fiber optic cable in the Baltic Sea. The ship is the Bulgarian vessel..
On Monday, a section of the international road E-75 in Serbia will be blocked, the situation center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs..
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