Category: Political News

Justice Minister Presents Measures to Remove Bulgaria from Financial Action Task Force’s “Grey List”

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Justice Minister Georgi Georgiev presented a package of measures aimed at removing Bulgaria from the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) so-called “grey list” of countries that have not fully implemented measures to fight money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing, the Ministry of Justice’s press office reported on Thursday. Georgiev was speaking during a bilateral meeting with experts from the FATF and the Council of Europe’s MONEYVAL Committee in Zagreb. In 2022, Bulgaria was placed on the “grey list” of countries under enhanced monitoring due to insufficient measures and unsatisfactory…

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The fulfilment of the budget deficit criterion “will not be the last good news” on the road to the euro, Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) Governor Dimitar Radev said in an exclusive interview with the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) during the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, which are taking place in Washington D.C on April 21-26. On Tuesday, official data from Eurostat and the National Statistical Institute showed that Bulgaria’s budget deficit in 2024 was 3%. This is a value that must not…

Tourism Minister Supports Blue Flag and Green Key Environmental Tourism Initiatives

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Tourism Minister Miroslav Borshosh held a working meeting with the Chairman of the Board of the Bulgarian Blue Flag Movement, Stanimir Georgiev, who acquainted the minister with the organization’s national programs in the field of environmental education, the Tourism Ministry said on Thursday. The focus of the talks between the two was the initiative for environmentally friendly management of beaches and marinas, as well as sustainable methods and new technologies in the most dynamically developing sector of the Bulgarian economy, the tourist sector. Within the framework of the meeting the…

Deputy PM Donchev: Reworking of National Recovery and Resilience Plan to Be Completed within Two Weeks

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Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev told a briefing on Thursday the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) was in process of reorganization, which will be completed at the end of April. Donchev, who is also Innovation and Growth Minister, said Bulgaria has committed to revise the planned investments in the NRRP, so that only those which can realistically be implemented by August 2026 stay on. Six projects are being permanently removed from the NRRP. Some of them will be salvaged by being redirected for funding under operational programmes with a…

Bulgarian National Radio

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Bulgarian National Radio (Bulgarian: Българско национално радио, Bǎlgarsko nacionalno radio; abbreviated to БНР, BNR) is Bulgaria’s national radio broadcasting organisation. It operates two national channels and nine regional channels, as well as an international service (Radio Bulgaria) which broadcasts in 11 languages. Listening to radio broadcasts from other countries having become popular in Bulgaria by the late 1920s, a group of engineers and intellectuals founded Rodno Radio (“Native, or Homeland, Radio”) on 30 March 1930 with the aim of providing Sofia with its own radio station. Broadcasting began in June…

BTA – Bulgarian News Agency

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The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is an independent national news organization of the Republic of Bulgaria. BTA, acting in the best interests of the public and of the State and conforming to the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian News Agency Act, exercises discretion in determining the content of its newsgathering and news-distributing operation and assumes responsibility for this operation. BTA is independent in the implementation of its operation and is accountable to the National Assembly. BTA was established by a decree issued by…