Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Pope Francis starts 3 day visit to Bulgaria and North Macedonia

Pope Francis has started his three-day visit to Bulgaria and North Macedonia,

05/05/2019

Bulgaria

Watch: Marine Le Pen on Matteo Salvini: 'He is a man of great will'

Far-right French leader Marine Le Pen denied any rift with Italy's Matteo Salvini in an interview with Euronews.

04/05/2019

Bulgaria

Road Trip Europe Day 35 Vidin: Inside Bulgaria's ghost towns

Young Bulgarians are leaving the country's rural areas in droves, leading to a phenomenon known as ghost villages.

03/05/2019

Bulgaria

Road Trip Europe Day 34 Sofia: Bulgarians protest low wages on Labour

Bulgaria has the lowest minimum wage in the European Union and is also the poorest country in the bloc. It is these dire labour conditions that are dominating the debate as the European elections loom.

02/05/2019

World

Road Trip Europe Day 33 Stolipinovo: Bulgarian Roma on discrimination

Euronews' EU Road Trip has reached Bulgaria on its mission to discover the hopes and fears of European voters ahead of May's EU parliamentary elections.

01/05/2019

World

Road Trip Europe Day 32 Plovdiv: Young Bulgarians upbeat about future

Despite living in the poorest country in the EU, the Road Trip team found that young Bulgarians in Plovdiv showed remarkable optimism about their future.

30/04/2019

World

Road Trip Europe Day 31 Sandanski: Demand for better living standards

Bryan Carter and Apostolos Staikos continue our European road trip by heading to Bulgaria just in time for Orthodox Easter, to find out what voters there are thinking before the European elections next month.

29/04/2019

Bulgaria

Anti-LGBT protest in Plovdiv, Europe's Capital of Culture

Politicians in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, voted one of this year's European Capitals of Culture, are lobbying to block an LGBT exhibition for later this year

08/04/2019

Bulgaria

Borissov assures NATO Bulgaria is not Russia's 'Trojan horse'

Borissov voiced concern over the possibility of an escalation in the arms race between NATO and Russia and told NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that Bulgaria will not be used as a 'Trojan horse' of Russia. Stoltenberg praised Bulgaria’s commitment to NATO during a visit to Sofia on Friday.

02/03/2019

Bulgaria

Bear Grylls faces possible fine over filming 'violations' in Bulgaria

The Bulgarian Environment Ministry said in a statement Thursday that Bear Grylls could face a fine for "violations" during filming of his show in a national park.

22/02/2019

Bulgaria

'Absolutely abhorrent': Far-right march to honour pro-Nazi general

Around 2,000 of them strode through the Bulgarian capital for the annual Lukov March.

17/02/2019

Bulgaria

Venezuela oil firm 'transferred millions of euros to Bulgarian bank'

Bulgarian authorities have launched an investigation into suspected money laundering after blocking millions of euros of transfers from Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA to a local bank.

14/02/2019

My Europe Series

Fashion victims: Bulgaria's textile workers on the poverty line

With one hundred days to go before the next European elections, Insiders goes to Bulgaria to discuss the difficult working conditions for textile workers in a country which has the lowest minimum wage in Europe.

12/02/2019

Bulgaria

Skripal poisoning investigation expands to Bulgaria

The Skripal probe just got even more complex as Sofia investigates a possible link between the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England in 2018 and the poisoning of an arms dealer on its soil in 2015.

11/02/2019

Economy

Bulgarians endure lowest minimum wage in the EU

Bulgaria might have increased its minimum wage this year to 286 Euro per month but it still offers the lowest wage out of all EU states.

08/02/2019

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Pernik celebrates the 28th Surva festival

Every winter, folklore groups from across Bulgaria take part in the two-day Surva festival in the city of Pernik.

28/01/2019

Cult

Historic Bulgarian city of Plovdiv is European Capital of Culture 2019

The historic Bulgarian city of Plovdiv is European Capital of Culture 2019 and its Together motto highlights how different communities can be united

18/01/2019

Bulgaria

Plovdiv celebrates becoming European Capital of Culture

Bulgaria's oldest city shares the 2019 title with Italian town Matera

14/01/2019

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