Irina Bokova, Bulgaria’s nomination for the post of Secretary-General of the UN received six votes in the fifth Security Council ballot. Leader in the race is still former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres, again with 12 encourage votes, followed by the former foreign minister of Serbia Vuk Jeremic. Third is Miroslav Lajcak, former foreign minister of Slovakia, fourth – Susana Malcorra, foreign minister of Argentina and fifth – the former president of Slovenia Danilo Turk. The vote on 5 October will be crucial as the participants will have veto rights and will be able to block any nomination.
Red paint was splattered in front of the Russian Embassy in Sofia. A video posted on the Facebook page of "BOEC" shows activists of the civil movement unloading paint buckets from a vehicle and spilling the paint in front of the embassy..
"We came out to defend freedom. We will keep fighting. The protest continues on Wednesday", Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov said an interview with BNR. "The protest continues inside the National Assembly. We will resist until the end", the MP..
Despite the ban by the Sofia Municipality, the Lukov March took place under heightened police presence. Participants in the far-right procession gathered on February 22 at Sveta Nedelya Square. They marched to the house of General Hristo Lukov, where..
According to data from Eurostat, Bulgaria has met the final criterion for joining the eurozone, namely price stability, Minister of Finance Temenuzhka..
The Ministers of Agriculture of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have called on the European Commission to restore pre-war import quotas for..
Sofia has taken over the presidency of the most prestigious local government forum in the Balkans – B40. The capital’s mayor Vasil Terziev accepted the..
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