Vice President Iliana Iotova said in Varna that it was high time for a meeting between the governments of Bulgaria and North Macedonia and demanded that more serious measures be taken after the latest incident with a citizen with Bulgarian self-awareness. She assessed the handing over of a note to the North Macedonian ambassador as an insufficient action, because there was no development in the case for a change in the constitution of North Macedonia that would include Bulgarians in it.
Iotova recalled that Skopje undertook and failed to fulfill the obligations to change the anti-Bulgarian content in textbooks, as well as to open the files of the services from the communist past. "I don't even dare to think that the new Bulgarian government would back down from the already established Bulgarian position,” the vice president said, BNT reports.
The German Bundestag recognizes the Macedonian culture, identity and language. This is stated in a draft decision of the German Federal Parliament, which will be discussed on June 15 by the MPs in Berlin. The declaration is entitled "Active support for North Macedonia on its path to the EU" and was submitted by the parliamentary groups of the three parties in the ruling coalition. Another key point in the draft document is to call on Bulgaria to stick to North Macedonia's path to the EU outlined by last summer's compromise, "and to refrain from setting additional conditions," dnevnik.bg reports.
Bulgarian tour operators and travel agents are hoping the new parliament will reconsider the decision to revert to the higher VAT (20%) for the industry as of 1 July. They are insisting that tourist packages be subject to 9% VAT until the end of..
The first joint operation of the newly formed Mine Counter Measures Task Group Black Sea involving Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania is to take place July 2-16, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports. The last time such an operation was carried..
On 2 July, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is to take part in the opening of the 28th Annual Economist Government Roundtable, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports. The international forum brings together state leaders from Greece and the region,..
Metropolitan Daniil of Vidin has been elected as the new Bulgarian Patriarch. He received 69 votes. Metropolitan Gregory of Vratsa received 66 votes...
The enthronement of the newly elected Bulgarian Patriarch, Metropolitan Daniil of Vidin, is over. The new spiritual leader was welcomed in St...
It will be sunny on Monday. There will be light southeasterly wind in the eastern parts of the country. The hot weather continues with maximum..
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