“We are sending off a year of trials – unparalleled in impact and scale… Yet, I have always said that Bulgarians demonstrate their strength best in the worst of times. That was true of 2020, which showed us what the word “heroes” truly means,” wrote Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in a New Year address on Facebook.

He noted that the pandemic has taught us to live guided by the idea of caring for others, that discipline and responsibility can be measured in human lives.

The Bulgarian prime minister expressed the hope that 2021 will be a year of recovery and a new beginning, of a return to normal life.