When it comes to a number of key benchmarks Bulgaria ranks among Sub-Saharan African countries and it has been getting increasingly difficult for it to fit into the "European landscape", President Rumen Radev said today at a meeting with students in Plovdiv. As problematic areas he listed income, social inequality, crime, corruption, aggression, high mortality, freedom of speech and quality of life.
"Bulgaria has failed almost completely in using the opportunities that the EU membership provided ... Our country is not only sustainably stuck at the bottom of the EU chart, but it is also lagging behind former socialist countries in which conditions were similar some years ago," the president said.
At the invitation of his German counterpart Annalena Berbock, minister Ivan Kondov participated in the meeting of foreign ministers of the countries of the Berlin Process. At the forum in Berlin, Kondov pointed out the importance of..
Bulgarian Jew David Levi, who survived Iran's missile attack against Israel in a bomb shelter, has told BNR that the situation in the country has calmed down with the opening of the airspace. This is a sign that the attack has passed,..
Bulgaria continues to be dedicated to the joint mission of developing the potential of science in support of peace in a world of fierce competition and for the positive development of our societies. This was what Bulgarian President..
Some of the Bulgarians in Lebanon were evacuated on a government aircraft flight on Monday evening. The first group, consisting of 89 people, mostly..
''The second evacuation flight from Lebanon will be carried out today around noon, provided the circumstances are favorable'', caretaker Premier Dimitar..
The Kalotina border checkpoint on the border with Serbia has already been renovated and has a nearly 30% increased capacity for passenger cars. It has..
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