2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (678+ words) After 100 days, Roumen Radev is no longer the alternative to power, Roumen Radev is the power and there is no longer an alibi, Boiko Borissov’s opposition party GERB said on August 16 on Facebook. Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted Radev’s government into…...

4+ hour, 27+ min ago   (388+ words) A total of 18 people belonging to the international neo-Nazi organisation “Blood and Honour” have been arrested at an overnight raid on a private club in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv, the head of the city’s regional directorate of the Interior Ministry Vassil Kostadinov…...

5+ hour, 33+ min ago   (133+ words) A Spanish Air Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone in Romanian airspace on August 16, Romania’s Ministry of National Defence said in a statement. The ministry said that at 4.4am on August 16, its surveillance systems detected the entry of an aerial…...

1+ day, 25+ min ago   (269+ words) Representatives of Lockheed Martin told Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov at an August 14 meeting that the delivery of the second eight F-16 fighter jets could be delayed until the second quarter of 2030, but all steps will be taken to accelerate production and…...

1+ day, 31+ min ago   (133+ words) The Sofia Globe From August 17 to 21, convoys carrying Italian armed forces equipment will cross into Bulgaria from Greece at intervals to take part in an exercise, the Defence Ministry said. The convoys will be travelling to the Novo Selo training…...

2+ day, 41+ min ago   (170+ words) Bulgarian Navy personnel responded to three reports of potentially dangerous objects along the country’s Black Sea coast, the Navy said on August 14. A specialist team from the Varna Naval Base reconnoitered a drifting object found 50 metres from the shore, near…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (253+ words) On August 14, the official opening of the section of the Sofia metro extension – Line 3, Stage 3 Hadji Dimitar Municipal Station – Levski G Residential District will take place, Sofia municipality announced on August 13. The newly constructed section is about three kilometres long…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (183+ words) Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea city of Bourgas will be the host city of the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, it was announced on August 12. Bourgas beat the other city that had been shortlisted, Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. Bulgaria is the host country of…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (199+ words) Just more than three months after taking office, Bulgaria’s Roumen Radev Cabinet adopted at a meeting on August 12 its governance programme for 2026 to 2030. Speaking at the start of the regular weekly Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Radev said that the programme…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (113+ words) Bulgaria’s accommodation establishments in June 2026: Arrivals down – but revenue up The Sofia Globe Revenue of accommodation establishments in Bulgaria in June 2026 added up 198 million euro, an increase of 13.6 per cent compared with June 2025, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on…...