Zagreb's mayor confirmed the city's biggest bus terminal is getting relocated to where the old Gredelj factory used to sit, and the whole thing hinges on finishing an urban development plan plus sorting out details with the national railway company. Tomislav Tomašević wants the new station closer to the train depot, with maybe an underground connector between them, but the city is only doing bare-minimum fixes on the current building until everything gets finalized.
The relocation makes more sense since Zagreb already owns a chunk of the former Gredelj property, and officials don't want to dump millions into renovating a facility that's getting replaced anyway. They looked at buying an old bank headquarters as a backup option, but the...
Delyan Peevski's DPS-New Beginning party is throwing a counter-rally to push back against opposition protests that want the government out. The pro-stability event drops one day before. Continue We Change-Democratic Bulgaria holds their third anti-government demonstration in Sofia's Independence Square, and both sides are basically yelling at each other through Facebook posts about who represents real Bulgarians.
DPS-New Beginning claims the country needs stable leadership instead of street chaos, and their rally is supposed to reject manipulation and violence. PP-DB fired back, saying angry citizens are the best weapon against mafia-style politics, and they want to make their protest a symbol of fighting corruption and oligarch...
Road crews are clearing a landslide that blocked the Troyan Pass near Karnare village on the II-35 highway connecting Troyan with the area. Five machines are working the site at the 117-kilometer mark after heavy rain dumped enough water to send rocks and dirt sliding onto the road. Workers from the Regional Road Administration in Plovdiv showed up to help speed things along.
The Road Infrastructure Agency said drivers can check conditions on their website or call a hotline while the pass stays closed. Officials want people to chill out on risky passing moves once traffic opens back up.
Pollster Parvan Simeonov from Measure agency told Bulgarian National Radio that public opinion flipped on whether the government should resign, and more people are warming up to snap elections even though neither option hits 50 percent support yet. The research wrapped up right after the second protest, so the numbers would probably look worse if they kept polling. Simeonov said Boyko Borisov is low-key rooting for the protests because he wants activists to kick Delyan Peevski out of the picture, and then GERB can cut a deal with Continue We Change-Democratic Bulgaria when things calm down.
The sociologist thinks protesters need to avoid turning their movement into some kind of policy platform because demonstrations work best when they...
Former defense minister Boyko Noev told Bulgarian National Radio that protesters will keep hitting the streets because the country got hijacked by corrupt politicians who care more about cutting deals with Trump and Putin than fixing anything at home. Noev thinks Boyko Borisov and Delyan Peevski will eventually bail out of Bulgaria entirely when things collapse, and he compared the whole situation to passengers locked below deck while pirates steer the ship into a storm.
The analyst said Trump's national security doctrine proves America is carving the world back into old-school spheres of influence, and Bulgaria got stuck looking pathetic on the frontlines without knowing which direction to go. Noev wants electronic voting locked into...
Vazrazhdane MP Tsoncho Ganev trashed the 2026 budget at a press conference and said Bulgaria is basically speedrunning the Greek debt crisis. Twenty percent of the whole thing gets funded through loans that add up to 21 billion leva, and the government is delaying tax hikes because the economy is already tanked. Ganev called out the budget for claiming Western European companies will dump investment cash into Bulgaria, even though factories and money are already bailing out of Central and Western Europe.
The party thinks officials are cooking the books with fake statistics to make everything look better than it actually is. Bulgaria might join the eurozone with sketchy numbers, the same way Greece did before everything collapsed.
Bulgaria's Labor Minister Borislav Gutsanov said his teams are ready to help flood victims in Burgas with cash payouts that go beyond the standard disaster relief cap of 1,914 leva. The government approved an extra 3,000 leva for people whose only home got wrecked, and Gutsanov thinks they can scrape together the funds. He's also pushing a new EU-backed program that would pay municipalities to clean out riverbeds and plant trees before disasters happen instead of scrambling after everything floods.
The 2026 budget keeps social spending intact and bumps maternity benefits from 780 to 900 leva after three years of nothing. Moms who go back to work early will get 75 percent of their leave money instead of 50 percent. Minimum wage is...
Bulgaria's parliament is about to vote on the 2026 budget next week, but Continue We Change-Democratic Bulgaria is already calling it a disaster. Martin Dimitrov from the opposition said the spending plan just kicks tax hikes down the road to 2027 and 2028 without fixing any of the wasteful government programs. GERB-SDF budget committee head Delyan Dobrev pushed back and claimed they hit all the demands from people protesting in the streets.
The budget committee wants to pass everything on Tuesday and wrap up the first reading before Christmas hits. PP-DB keeps demanding the whole government resign instead of just tweaking numbers around, and they're planning to submit amendments between the two readings even though everyone knows the...
Bulgaria's parliament is gearing up for another no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov's cabinet while protesters keep building momentum in the streets. Political analyst Anton Kutev told bTV that Delyan Peevski's power grab is what set everything off, since the guy polls at like 2% but acts like he runs the place. Prof. Rosen Stoyanov pointed out that the young crowd marching around might not realize they're still outnumbered by older voters who actually show up to elections.
Kutev thinks the government is toast no matter what Boyko Borisov tries to pull, and the street energy isn't going away anytime soon. Associate Professor Georgi Lozanov said younger Bulgarians can't wrap their heads around how someone...
