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Kornelia Ninova from Rebellious Bulgaria went off on Facebook after Borisov said the government was pulling back Budget 2026 to redo it. She called out all the ministers and deputies who kept saying this was the only budget that could work, and asked what had changed since they were all pushing...

Council for Economic Analysis secretary Plamen Nenov told Bulgarian National Radio that the country needs gradual fiscal tightening since the economy is running hotter than its actual capacity, according to central bank numbers. The economist said raising VAT is not ideal because it would spike...

Sofia hosted the annual AFCEA TechNet conference, where three European Commission-funded defense projects got shown off. The FALCON system uses AI to catch high-level corruption by tracking luxury purchases and crypto transfers from government officials with suspicious connections. Biomarker...

Lyulin district mayor Georgi Todorov told the Sofia Municipal Council that trash problems are coming back hard after the last ten days turned into a dumpster fire, with heaps piling up again. The region has 1,500 bins that need emptying daily to avoid a full meltdown but the system is not...

Sofia's mayor, Vasil Terziev, got his municipal restructuring plan rejected for the second time after city council members from everyone except PP-DB and Save Sofia voted against it or abstained. The proposal wanted to add a deputy mayor position focused on urban planning plus create specialized...

GERB boss Boyko Borisov said talks with employers and unions are back on after the government yanked their budget proposal following street protests. Finance Ministry meetings kick off with business groups KRIB and BIA plus the two big labor unions Podkrepa and CITUB, to hash out details, with...

Western outlets like AP and EuroNews covered massive Bulgarian protests where around 20k people surrounded parliament to block lawmakers voting on the 2026 budget that jacks up taxes and social security payments. PP-DB opposition coalition organized the rally against spending that hits almost 46...

DPS-New Beginning boss Delyan Peevski flipped the script after protesters clashed with cops outside parliament by asking if beating police officers counts as democracy. The politician did not deny allegations that one of his MPs choked a PP youth member with coat hangers but fired back, asking...

Academician Nikolay Denkov said one of his PP associates got jumped outside parliament, and they are filing with prosecutors to strip immunity from MP Hamid Hamid who apparently smacked the guy. Kaloyan Darvov claims Hamid choked another associate with a coat hanger after getting mad about being...

Bulgarian Oil and Gas Association chair Svetoslav Benchev told NOVA NEWS that running something as massive as the Lukoil refinery would be a nightmare for the government since it basically controls the entire economy. The guy thinks the budget provision letting the state grab it is more like a...

PP-DB co-chair Assen Vassilev said he is pumped that regular Bulgarians got heard after the government ignored opposition lawmakers, experts, and business groups who complained about the trash 2026 budget. GERB boss Boyko Borisov called an emergency meeting and killed the whole thing following...

Bulgarian PM Rosen Zhelyazkov basically admitted protests got too spicy and told parliament they need to care about regular people instead of playing political games. The guy said the budget is getting yanked and redone after social dialogue completely broke down, asking opposition reps to use...

Burgas Customs is auctioning off a bunch of random stuff they grabbed from people trying to smuggle things through Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint between 2021 and 2024. The haul got split into 20 groups and covers everything from phones and construction materials to clothes and shoes after all the...

GERB leader Boyko Borissov told journalists the 2026 budget is getting yanked back for a full rewrite after he sat down with the prime minister and finance minister this morning. The dude said he has been complaining about this budget forever and wants it pulled until they get dialogue going...

Georgi Vuldjev from some Bulgarian economics club went on national radio, trashing the government's budget plans and backing businesses fighting against it. The guy said parliament rammed everything through without real discussion and the meeting turned into people screaming at each other when...

MECH leader Ivelin Mihaylov went on TV saying he is not scared to show up at protests because people actually vibe with him, unlike some other dude named Mikhailov, and he said exposing frauds connected to Dimitar Baberkov got him targeted by Peevski provocateurs who shove cameras in his face...

Kostadin Kostadinov dropped a Facebook rant demanding the government bounce right away, saying the GERB-DPS-BSP-ITN coalition pissed everyone off enough that even groups with massive ideological beef like his party and PP-DB are protesting together. The Bulgarian politician said the...

Bulgarian diplomat Garkov went off about how his country got dragged into the EU without a referendum back when they joined, which he thinks makes their membership morally sketchy even if it was technically legal. The guy said Bulgaria needs to stop following orders from Brussels and start...

Ivaylo Mirchev from PP-DB walked into parliament talking about how 30k people showed up to protest in the rain and brought their kids along, which he thinks is what actually matters, instead of everyone fixating on the fights that broke out. The guy said provocateurs always get planted at big...

Balaka farmers got told to stick with local seeds instead of the expensive hybrid stuff since the homegrown varieties handle weird weather better and cost way less. Nyuma Mughogho from the Transforming Landscapes and Livelihoods Project said research backs up that local seeds crush it in...