Bulgaria

Balkan country Bulgaria has become the latest member of euro area, officially joining at midnigt on New Year’s Day, twenty years after its accession to the European Union. The Bulgarian Lev, the national currency in use since…

Tens of thousands protested across Bulgaria against the 2026 budget bill and alleged government corruption. In Sofia, clashes erupted outside the National Assembly as demonstrators threw stones and firecrackers, prompting police to…

Vildan Yılmaz, an 88-year-old retired teacher who came to Türkiye from Bulgaria during the 1989 forced migration, reflected on her teaching career and the meaning of Teachers' Day. Despite undergoing surgery and chemotherapy in…

The childhood home of world weightlifting legend Naim Süleymanoğlu in Mestanlı, Bulgaria, has been restored and turned into a museum under a 2021 TİKA project. The official opening takes place today with Türkiye’s Culture and…

Thousands of supporters of the far-right Vizrajdane (Rebirth) Party protested the government's plans to use the euro next year in front of a building belonging to the European Commission in Bulgaria's capital Sofia. After throwing red…

Hundreds of truck drivers waiting to cross into Bulgaria at the Hamzabeyli Border Gate in Edirne have formed a 17-kilometer queue in freezing temperatures. Drivers blame the congestion on system updates and slow…

Bulgaria's National Assembly has approved a new coalition government, ending a prolonged political crisis. Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov's cabinet was supported by 125 of 239 deputies in a vote this morning, with 114 opposing. The…

Romania and Bulgaria have been accepted as full members of the Schengen area following a vote by EU Interior Ministers, led by Hungary's EU Presidency. The decision, effective January 1, 2025, lifts land border controls with the two…