Bulgaria

Bulgaria

6,000-year-old Bulgarian city honoured as European culture capital

Plovdiv, the oldest city in Bulgaria, has been officially inaugurated as the European Capital of Culture for 2019.

12/01/2019

Bulgaria

Icy epiphany in Bulgaria

Bagpipes and folk songs in frozen river for Orthodox celebration

06/01/2019

Bulgaria

Bulgaria’s deputy PM quits after insulting disabled rights activists

Bulgaria’s deputy prime minister has quit after controversial remarks about disabled rights activists sparked protests.

17/11/2018

Bulgaria

Bulgaria latest EU nation to snub UN migration pact

Bulgaria has become the latest EU nation to snub a UN migration pact that will be debated in December.

12/11/2018

Bulgaria

8000-year-old statue could ‘push back’ Europe’s Neolithic era

The upper part of an 8,000-year-old figurine thought to represent a mother goddess has been discovered in northwestern Bulgaria.

12/11/2018

Bulgaria

Bulgaria arrests in probe into EU passport fraud

Recipients are believed to have paid up to €5,000 for the passports.

30/10/2018

Bulgaria

Euroviews. Journalists need not be murdered to muzzle free speech in the Balkans | View

Why the murder of a Bulgarian journalist matters for Europe.

26/10/2018

Bulgaria

Bulgaria: Hundreds attend Victoria Marinova's funeral

The television journalist was brutally raped and murdered last week which shocked the country

12/10/2018

Bulgaria

Daphne’s sister wants Europe-wide action to stop journalist murders

Europe must act together to stop the murder of journalists investigating corruption, the sister of one of those killed has claimed.

08/10/2018

Bulgaria

At least 15 people killed as coach crashes in Bulgaria

15 people are reported dead and a large number are injured after a bus lost control, left the road and overturned on a rock massif near the Iskar Gorge in Bulgaria.

26/08/2018

Bulgaria

Bid to build at UNESCO-protected national park in Bulgaria 'illegal'

Environmentalists are celebrating after winning a court case over plans to expand a ski resort in one of Bulgaria’s national parks.

31/07/2018

Bulgaria

How do you kill thousands of livestock in a few days without warning?

When Ovine Rinderpest was identified in Bulgaria, the authorities had to start killing, fast.

31/07/2018

Bulgaria

Bulgarian farmers devastated over ‘sheep and goat plague’ slaughter

The Bulgaria government has ordered a mass slaughter of livestock following the first outbreak in the European Union of the so-called sheep and goat plague. Euronews spoke to farmers who were devastated.

27/07/2018

Bulgaria

Farmers protest livestock cull in Bulgaria after rinderpest outbreak

Authorities have already slaughtered more than 4,000 animals in order to prevent the further spread of the disease and avert a European Union ban on Bulgarian milk and dairy exports.

23/07/2018

Spotlight

Bulgaria, an emerging tourist destination

Sharing borders with Greece, FYR Macedonia and Serbia, Romania and Turkey, Bulgaria has plenty to offer to the visitor.

12/07/2018

Spotlight

Bulgaria: Open for business

The Bulgarian economy is growing at a stunning pace and exports are booming, while its business-friendly environment and well-educated local workforce are a magnet for foreign investments. More and more foreign companies are going there, making significant investments.

28/06/2018

Bulgaria

Penka the cow will not be killed for leaving the EU

Pregnant cow is saved after campaign.

11/06/2018

Bulgaria

EU spends €274m to 'breach its own environmental laws'

Brussels has been accused of an embarrassing gaffe after spending €274 million on a motorway that is set to breach its own environmental laws.

08/06/2018

Bulgaria

Russian-designed nuclear power plant causes tension in Bulgaria

Bulgaria is set to restart construction of a Russian designed nuclear power plant first proposed more than 30 years ago dating back to the end of the Cold War, in a move supporters say could reduce the country’s energy dependence on Russia.

08/06/2018

Bulgaria

Bulgarian cow sentenced to death for wandering outside of EU

Penka the cow will be shot for crossing EU border without documentation

05/06/2018

Bulgaria

Fed-up fans demand their Bulgarian team move to FYR Macedonia

Bulgarian team's fans ask to join FYR Macedonian football league after claiming 'repression' had seen them relegated from Bulgaria's top division.

24/05/2018

Bulgaria

EU's summit with Western Balkan nations promises path to membership

Summit reiterated objectives set 15 years ago, and reaffirmed determination to bring the Balkans into the EU family, but the post-summit press conference ranged further afield, to transatlantic relations, and Iran.

17/05/2018

Bulgaria

EU commits to Iran deal and demands US tariff exemptions at Balkans summit

European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov briefed the press following the EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia.

17/05/2018

Bulgaria

EU Leaders gather in Sofia to discuss Balkans and Trump

European Council President Donald Tusk put the US President at the top of the agenda, critcising his recent decision-making on the Iran nuclear deal and import trade tariffs.

17/05/2018

Europe News

EU Balkan meeting thrown off track | The Brief from Brussels

It was supposed to tackle big issues like the role of the EU in south-east Europe, immigration, security, crime but there was an elephant in the Balkan summit meeting room.

17/05/2018

Bulgaria

Search for top Bulgarian mountaineer missing in bid to reach Tibetan summit

18 years ago he survived cancer but developed diabetes while receiving chemotherapy; 3 years ago, he survived a coma after being struck by a car while researching wildlife in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria; now he is missing on a Tibetan mountain.

11/05/2018