The Central Election Commission has determined the polling stations abroad for the parliamentary elections on October 27. At this stage, there are 710 polling stations in 57 countries. There will be no polling stations in Ukraine, Lebanon, Israel and Iran. There will be no polling station in the Bulgarian embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The highest number of polling stations will be opened in Turkiye - 168, followed by the United Kingdom – 112, Germany – 66, Spain – 64, the USA – 53, Italy – 27 and Greece – 23. The polling stations abroad have also been determined on the basis of the applications for voting from abroad and information received from the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. By October 14, consent for the opening of polling stations outside diplomatic missions is expected from Algeria, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Norway and Switzerland. In the Czech Republic, voting will take place only in diplomatic missions.
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The Finance Ministry has confirmed that Minister Petkova will participate in the Eurogroup meeting on 17..
Minimum temperatures on Monday will be between minus 4 and 1°C. In Sofia it will be around minus 3°C. The mercury will hover between -3 and 0 °C in the north. Maximum temperatures in southern Bulgaria will be between 2 and 7°C. In the capital it will..
The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It was organised by the movement "For a Free Russia" - an association of Russian immigrants in..
Kristiyan Vladov and Stefan Kyurkchiev of the Plovdiv Museum of Natural History are working on a project to bring live fish from the southern Arctic..
Bulgaria’s Premier Rosen Zhelyazkov convened an emergency meeting at the Council of Ministers on Saturday dedicated to the issue of food prices...
Bulgaria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georg Georgiev, participated in a working breakfast dedicated to addressing illegal migration and its..
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