Outside of Bulgaria, 191 voting sections will be opened in 64 countries for the upcoming European Election to be held on May 26, the CEC announced. The biggest number of polling stations are in EU Member States - in the UK - 24, in Germany - 24, in Spain..
The specialized court has decided to leave businessman Minyu Staykov, owner of a large alcohol business, in the arrest. He has been accused of having run and participated in an organized criminal group of eight people producing cigarettes without..
The European Commission predicts acceleration of economic growth in Bulgaria to 3.3% in 2019 and 3.4% in 2020, with annual inflation of 2%. According to economists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, despite the slowdown in growth, it remains..
Migration processes through the country are calm and predictable and the Bulgarian authorities fully control the situation at borders. This is what Bulgarian Minister of Interior Mladen Marinov said at a round table dedicated to "Protection of EU..
The opinion of all member states of the European Union should be taken into consideration when decisions on the enlargement of the Schengen Area are made. This is pointed out in the final declaration of the summit of 13 EU members in Warsaw,..
The Bulgarian Agriculture Fund has checked 110 guest houses or 18% of all built with EU funds, Minister Rumen Porozhanov reported. Fines of over 5 million euro have been imposed. For 32 sites, a full refund has been requested, as well as partial..
In a letter to Bulgarian members of the European Parliament, Minister of Transport Rossen Zhelyazkov has called for joint actions with all same-minded Member States related to Mobility Package I. Minister Zhelyazkov pointed out that protection of the..
Bulgaria disagrees with calls for ending Turkey's EU Membership talks, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva has said. She commented on a recommendation by the European Parliament that Turkey should not be admitted to the EU. It is not in the..
Russian hacker group Fancy Bear, related to the Russian military intelligence, is the main suspect for cyber attacks against the web sites of CEC, the Interior Ministry and other institutions during the local elections in Bulgaria in 2015. This was..
The share of women in the government sector in Bulgaria has reached 40 percent, considerably exceeding the EU average, latest Eurostat data show. Over the past five years their number has gone up by almost 10 percentage points. There are 5..
