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Vladislav Panev threw shade on Facebook about the revised budget after the government claimed it wouldn't jack up taxes or contributions. The plan bumps maximum social security income to 2,300 euros monthly and gives state workers across the board a 10% raise without any actual reforms happening...

GERB boss Boyko Borisov dropped a TikTok flex about Budget 2026, promising a completely fresh spending plan before the holidays. The party wants to axe dividend taxes and social security contribution bumps while decoupling salaries, and Borisov hyped a 10% raise for everyone's paychecks and...

Sofia Mayor Vasil Terziev posted on Facebook that thousands of commuters from Novi Iskar, Pancharevo, Vitosha, Bankya, and Ovcha Kupel won't need highway stickers for their daily grind into the city. The municipality plans to sign a deal with the Road Infrastructure Agency for shared upkeep of...

Bulgaria's e-Government Minister Valentin Mundrov hit up Brussels to chat with EU Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva about building a centralized national cybersecurity system that locks down data sovereignty. The government wants the ministry coordinating protection for national systems against...

Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said retail chains haven't been doing sketchy price hikes tied to euro adoption based on summer data from the competition commission's sectoral review. The government's advance monitoring and partnerships with stores apparently kept things legit during the...

Agriculture Minister Georgi Tahov told officials at a competition commission meeting that farmers need to band together because cooperatives give producers better negotiating power and market access. The ministry counted 68 recognized producer groups mostly working in fruits, vegetables, and...

Ombudsman Velislava Delcheva called out banks for making it weirdly hard to grab euro coin starter kits, and she fired off a complaint to the Bulgarian National Bank after citizens started flooding her office with gripes. Some banks apparently only sell the 20-lev packages to their existing...

Bulgaria's economy showed workers cranking out 0.7% more GDP per person compared to last year's third quarter, and the National Statistical Institute dropped data showing 3.7 million people employed across the country. Each worker generated roughly 16,815 lev of GDP, with about 42.70 lev created...

Dr. Velikova told reporters that winter heating with wood and increased car use during cold months wreck air quality, and fine dust particles like PM2.5 and PM10 mess with immune system function by triggering oxidative stress and chronic inflammation. Pollutants hit the lungs deep and spread...

Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova announced that government officials, unions, and business groups hammered out a deal on the 2026 budget after social partners sorted their beef yesterday. Security and defense sector pay got uncoupled from average wages, and the capital program took a...

PP-DB lawmaker Elisaveta Belobradova told Bulgarian National Radio the whole Monday protest chaos looked completely fake, with violent incidents at DPS and GERB offices seeming totally orchestrated. She claims there was a massive empty gap between actual protesters and the troublemakers at the...

Agriculture Minister Georgi Tahov showed up at Sofia's National Fish Fest and talked about how the event helps regular people connect with the fishing industry while boosting sales and trust between fishermen and customers. The sector gets support through a maritime program running through 2027...

Assen Vassilev from We Continue the Change dropped a no-confidence motion against the government after it ignored massive street demonstrations and refused to bounce. He said the youngest generation is getting involved in politics for the first time, and if the cabinet stays put, they'll...

Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov told parliament that Bulgaria deals with thousands of agricultural blazes and hundreds of forest fires every year, and the Air Force has gear ready to handle them. The government's trying to build up permanent firefighting capacity since recent years have been...

The Alliance for Rights and Freedoms threw its full weight behind the no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov's government, with every single deputy signing on as co-sponsors. Hasan Ademov basically said the government's already cooked regardless of how the vote goes, and he...

Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev got sprung on bail after supporters crowded 200,000 leva, but his lawyer immediately filed an appeal trying to get that amount slashed or tossed entirely. The defense wants either zero bail or just a signed promise to show up for court stuff. An appeals court will...

Former Energy Minister Miroslav Sevlievski told bTV that the protests represent the massive chunk of Bulgarians who skip voting, and he thinks people turned out because politicians have been acting like arrogant jerks. Journalist Konstantin Valkov pointed out that young protesters actually have...

GERB leader Boyko Borisov told reporters at parliament that protesters wanted him to quit even though he's just an MP, and he said he'd bounce immediately if that was enough. He mentioned asking Temenuzhka Petkova to drop the stuff business groups and unions wanted, like wage controls, and he's...

Bulgaria's parliament kicked off with Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov facing questions about the government's direction, and he got grilled by lawmakers pushing for his resignation over economic issues. Deputy PM Elisaveta Belobradova handed him her resignation letter right there in the chamber...

MAXSUN opened pre-orders for their MS-iCraft B850 AIGA motherboard at 225 bucks, and the ATX board packs a 16-plus-2-plus-1 phase power system rated for unlocked AMD chips pulling 400 watts. Four DDR5 slots can hit 8400 megatransfers when overclocked, while storage covers two processor-linked...