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Vazrazhdane MP Petar Petrov told reporters the ruling coalition is trying to speedrun a leadership purge at three major security agencies through sketchy parliamentary moves that dodge normal legislative procedure. DPS-New Beginning apparently snuck amendments into a bill about police...

We Continue the Change dropped another rally date for people mad about the budget mess. They're calling everyone to show up in Sofia at 6 pm on December 1 because GERB supposedly promised to scrap the proposal, then immediately backtracked with help from New Beginning, while ITN and BSP stayed...

Bulgarian pharmacies are screaming that patients might get screwed after the New Year because the National Health Insurance Fund owes them around 60 million leva and keeps ghosting payment deadlines. Evgeni Antonov from the pharmacists group said small shops are getting buried since they front...

Two economists told parliament that yanking back the 3 billion leva getting funneled into private pension funds every year would fix the budget mess without jacking up social security contributions. Lyubomir Hristov and Viktor Papazov pitched this at a Vazrazhdane debate, where the pension...

Boyko Borisov from GERB got into it with Assen Vassilev from We Continue the Change outside parliament over next year's budget, with Democratic Bulgaria's Ivaylo Mirchev jumping in after Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said tripartite talks were back on. Mirchev told Borisov that Peevski was...

Mayor Izet Shaban dropped an emergency declaration for Ardino after massive rain hammered the area and wrecked the infrastructure connecting six villages. The concrete bridge over the Arda River near Kitnitsa got totally swamped, which cut off Rusalsko, Lyubino, Latinka, Avramovо, Pesnopoy, and...

Associate Professor Velev explained that when kids run hot, it actually means their immune system is doing its job and creating a hostile environment for whatever bug invaded their body. Parents shouldn't freak out and start throwing antibiotics at viral infections just because the thermometer...

Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev walked out of detention around noon and immediately got emotional with his wife Kamelia before telling reporters his kids were getting the first hug. He said the city needs to get back to regular business, but his family comes first. Kotsev basically told everyone...

Bulgaria wrapped up everything they needed to do for the Rudozem-Xanthi border crossing back in 2023, but Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev told parliament the holdup is on Greece's end with admin stuff and technical paperwork. He was responding to questions about why the checkpoint still isn't...

Political analyst Arman Babikyan told Bulgarian National Radio that Peevski and Borisov are still playing hot potato with the budget and who actually runs things. He thinks the BSP leader's recent statement was basically Peevski sending messages to Borisov through back channels, since nobody...

PP-DB reps told journalists the draft budget needs to get pulled back. DSB leader Atanas Atanasov said whoever submitted this thing has to yank it during their morning meetup, then do the whole legal song and dance with the Tripartite before bringing it back for parliament's first reading. Asen...

Vasil Pandov from the Continue Change-Democratic Bulgaria coalition is taking Slavi Trifonov to court after the There Is Such a People party boss accused him of stirring up violence during protests. Pandov said both Trifonov and Delyan Peevski are running coordinated smear campaigns against him...

Four municipalities in Blagoevgrad are still under disaster status after heavy rain caused rivers to jump their banks and trash infrastructure plus private property. Sandanski got hit the hardest with villages like Novo Delchevo, Dzhigurovo, and Leshnitsa dealing with flooded homes and streets...

Former economy minister Nikolay Vassilev told bTV the 2026 budget is not actually dead but sitting in limbo while politicians hash out revisions. He said Bulgaria keeps pretending to run 3% deficits but really starts at 5% and ends up hitting 8%, and the country needs to ditch deficit spending...

Professor Kurtev founded Bulgaria's colon cancer screening program, and he basically said people will show up for testing when they get clear info about what it does and why it matters. The problem is the government has not committed resources or political will to make screening happen at scale...

A bunch of SUVs with Pleven plates just shut down Dondukov Boulevard by the Opera House, and the whole area turned into a parking lot. Trams are stacked up in both directions, and cars are gridlocked because the vehicles blocking traffic are apparently heavy enough that cops cannot move them...

The Bulgarian Socialist Party is threatening to bail on the government if anyone messes with the social benefits packed into next year's budget. Ivan Takov from BSP confirmed the party will walk if the income policy gets touched after GERB leader Boyko Borisov yanked the 2026 budget following...

Former Bulgarian president Rosen Plevneliev said Boyko Borisov made the smart call by pulling the 2026 budget after protests hit the Triangle of Power area. The ex-leader watched the whole thing go down and noticed most of the crowd was legit young people showing up for real reasons, even though...

Bulgaria is about to get slammed with one of the wildest winter stretches in 15 years, and weather nerds at Meteo Balkans are pointing at the polar vortex split as the main culprit. Early parts of the month are looking dry but cold, with fog sitting heavy over the plains and temps barely...

Bulgaria's parliament is about to vote on whether to accept another EUR 250 million loan from the European Investment Bank, and the cash is basically going straight into covering the country's share of EU-funded projects. The money gets split across transport infrastructure, environmental...