Bulgaria

Christians around the world marked the holiday of Epiphany on Friday with parades, toy distributions, and local water traditions — a way of welcoming the Magi to Bethlehem following their journey to visit the baby Jesus.

Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov invited his political opponents Tuesday to talks on forming a government.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Bulgarians on Sunday cast their ballots in a general election – the fourth in 18 months – marked by a raging war nearby, political instability, and economic hardships in the European Union’s poorest member.

Two Bulgarian police officers were killed early Thursday as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who had entered the country illegally, a senior interior ministry official said.

A shortage of gas triggered by Russia could leave six million without power, the govt asks coal stations it ordered close to remain open. 

The Greek government has offed to aid Bulgaria after Russia cut off gas supplies this week, with Greek Prime Minister  Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussing the issue Wednesday with Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov. A Greek official stated Wednesday that the country had

Ten European Union member-states have been exposed for selling hundreds of millions of euros worth of military kit to Russia between 2015 and 2020, despite sanctions.

Despite initial reports that around 70 Russian-made fighter jets were being provided to Ukraine by EU member-states, Western powers have now apparently denied any plans of giving combat aircraft to the embattled nation.

A Bulgarian Member of the European Parliament has been accused of giving a Nazi salute in the organization’s Strasbourg meeting place on Wednesday.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) cautioned Tuesday the threat of armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine is not the only concern on the horizon, pointing to rising coronavirus rates in Eastern Europe as the source of more worries.

An estimated 3,000 Bulgarians gathered in front of the country’s parliament building in Sophia on Wednesday to protest the country’s Chinese coronavirus “vaccine passport” system, with some “briefly scuffl[ing] with police” during the demonstration, Reuters reported.

SIBIU, Romania (AP) – As the fast-spreading coronavirus variant omicron rages through Western Europe, officials and experts in low-vaccinated Eastern Europe anticipate a post-holiday explosion of COVID-19 cases in much of the region.

EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) – Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking advantage of a declining Turkish lira to fuel their own shopping sprees.

A bus carrying North Macedonians home from a tourist trip to Istanbul crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early Tuesday.

The government of Bulgaria has announced that it will be sending 350 troops to the border with Turkey, as the number of mostly Afghan migrants crossing illegally has tripled this year.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Hundreds of Bulgarian coal miners and energy workers staged a protest on Wednesday to demand government guarantees for their jobs amid bids by the European Union to close mines and reduce carbon emissions.

In an effort to clamp down on human trafficking, Europol raided hundreds of vineyards and farms across Europe last month.

Boris Johnson’s government is scrapping the ‘Pick for Britain’ drive for British farm workers and increasing migrant recruitment to 30,000, with hundreds to come from the likes of Belarus and the Russian Federation.

The Advocate General at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has called on the Bulgarian government to recognise a girl with two mothers, despite gay marriages being illegal in the country.

Bulgarians are heading to the polls after months of anti-government protests and amid a surge in coronavirus infections.

The EU warned Bulgaria that it risks undermining security in the Balkans if it continues to block EU membership talks for North Macedonia.

Addressing an EU enlargement summit Tuesday, Bulgaria pledged support for Balkan countries on the path of being integrated into the EU.

Countries across Europe are enforcing masks, ordering curfews, cancelling hospital appointments, and going into lockdown after the number of coronavirus infections continues to rise, with Switzerland going from one of the least-effected countries on the continent to one of the worst.

Criminals along the Greek border are allegedly selling fake medical certificates showing a negative result for the Wuhan coronavirus to those travelling to Greece.

The number of EU migrants who arrived in Britain under the Free Movement migration regime may have been undercounted by as much as 55 per cent.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – The main Serbian hospital treating patients infected with coronavirus looks like an abandoned building, but it isn´t. With its rundown facade, peeling walls and rooms crammed with metal beds, the downtown Belgrade clinic for infectious diseases

KASTANIES, Greece (AP) – The United Nations said Sunday that at least 13,000 people were massed on Turkey’s land border with Greece, after Turkey officially declared its western borders were open to migrants and refugees hoping to head into the European Union.

Sofia (AFP) — Bulgaria on Saturday said it would summon France’s ambassador to Sofia on Monday over “insulting” comments about immigration by French President Emmanuel Macron sparked outrage.

Police in southeastern England said 39 people were found dead Wednesday inside a truck container believed to have come from Bulgaria.

Pope Francis visited a refugee camp in Bulgaria Monday and told migrants that they have become “humanity’s cross” to bear.

Pope Francis traveled to Bulgaria Sunday to meet with the faithful but was stymied in his hopes of celebrating a joint prayer service with representatives of the Orthodox Church.

A top European Union official says the EU will help finance the construction of a railway line connecting Istanbul to the Bulgarian border with a 275-million-euro ($314 million) grant.

Sovereign nations around the world have taken steps to end illegal mass immigration, most notably the relatively small countries of Australia, Bulgaria, and Slovenia — all of which have enacted strict border controls.

Bulgaria’s government says the country will not sign a global pact to promote safe and orderly migration.

While debate on the UN migration pact rages worldwide, with a growing number of nations following the United States in withdrawing, the major deal has seen little discussion in the United Kingdom.

More nations are joining the exodus from the United Nations’ (UN) controversial compact on mass migration, with legal experts now standing up to raise concerns about the drafting of the document and what legal implications signing it might have for countries party to the pact.