SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's parliament on Friday rubber-stamped the 2022 budget bill that targets a fiscal deficit of 4.1% of economic output this year, planning for an increased public investment to ...

New Bulgarian PM Petkov faces a struggle reconciling the competing demands of his coalition allies if Bulgaria is to go a year without yet another election. With three parliamentary and two ...

Defence Minister Dragomir Zakov said that due to the country’s poor military capabilities, Bulgaria will not send arms to Ukraine and will focus on strengthening its own underfunded army. A MiG-29 ...

FILE - Bulgaria's Prime Minister Kiril Petkov speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Bulgaria is heading to a new parliamentary election this fall ...

SOFIA -- Russia has been hit by waves of Western sanctions for its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, including its energy sector, a major source of revenue for the Kremlin. On December 5, 2022, Russia's ...

The RNLAF F-35s have landed at Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Bulgaria. Four F-35A of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) have deployed to Bulgaria, on Apr. 6, 2022, the Dutch MOD announced. The ...

Bulgaria has one month to determine the future of the Lukoil Neftochim refinery, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said ahead ...

Mother, the Bulgarian submission for this year’s International Feature Film Oscar race, has been deemed ineligible by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The film’s director, Zornitsa ...

An inspection of the building of the former Russian Consulate General in the Bulgarian city of Ruse, which the Russians left in June 2022, has found that the building has suffered significant damage: ...

Borat 2 star Maria Bakalova will chair the committee selecting Bulgaria’s best international film submission for the 2022-23 Oscar race, the country’s National Film Center has confirmed. Bakalova was ...