A meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council was held in Brussels with the participation of the foreign and defence ministers. Bulgaria was represented by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Stefan Yanev and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Lubomir Ivanov.
The ministers discussed the progress and future steps in fulfillment of the priorities in the sphere of security and defence arising from the new EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy. A decision was made to set up a new permanent military structure for planning and conducting missions and operations within the common security and defence policy with the aim of improving their efficiency.
Physicist Acad. Ivan Todorov passed away at the age of 91, the press center of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences announced. Acad. Todorov was a scientist with outstanding achievements and world recognition in the field of modern..
Sofia Airport operates normally in winter conditions, BTA has reported. The runways for take off and landing have been cleaned. The aircraft are being treated against icing. Passengers are advised to arrive at the terminals at..
Speaking to the Bulgarian National Radio, the ambassadors of Germany and France to Bulgaria Irene Plank and Joël Meyer commented on the current situation in Europe and the upcoming negotiations on Ukraine. "This is an informal..
The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It..
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The..
The Bulgarian Ministry of Tourism will work to create a map of important, but hard-to-reach tourist and cultural-historical sites. The goal is then to..
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