After a month-long summer recess, the 51st National Assembly has resumed its work. Among the most pressing tasks facing MPs are voting on the 2026 budget, addressing water shortages, selecting members of the Anti-Corruption Commission, and holding a fifth vote of no confidence against Rosen Zhelyazkov's cabinet. The vote, to be initiated by We Continue the Change–Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB), targets what they describe as state capture.
In another development, a new protest has been announced in Sofia by the Justice for All initiative under the slogan “Resistance Against Dictatorship,” set to begin at 6:30 p.m.
The organisers said: “State institutions have been taken over and turned into personal instruments of a criminal group led by Delyan Peevski and Boyko Borissov.”
Bulgaria’s parliament has instructed the government to set up a National Water Board within two weeks to coordinate the work of various institutions in tackling the country’s water crisis and preventing future shortages. During the discussions, it..
Veliko Tarnovo University is hosting the second organisational and methodological seminar for lecturers of Bulgarian language, literature, and culture at universities abroad. The university reported on Facebook that Bulgaria’s Vice President, Iliana..
The government has set Bulgaria’s poverty line at €390.63 for 2026, up €64.42, or 19.7%, compared with 2025. This increase will also raise the value of social benefits and financial support tied to the poverty line and provided under the Social..
During the night, the weather will remain mostly clear with scattered high clouds. After midnight, low clouds or fog are expected to form over the far..
Firefighting teams, workers from the Rila Monastery Nature Park and volunteers joined efforts to extinguish a fire that broke out yesterday afternoon in..
Bulgaria will begin checks after Oct. 1 to ensure all government IT systems are ready to operate with the euro , e-Government Minister Valentin Mundrov..
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