All activities in indoor public places, from large shops in malls to restaurants to cinemas and other places, will require the public to show a “green certificate” for admission as of October 21, Bulgaria’s caretaker Health Minister Stoicho Katsarov told a news conference on October 19. Basically this is discrimination against the unvaccinated. Bulgaria is only 25% vaccinated which means that... 

A Bulgarian-owned cargo vessel sailing under the Maltese flag was boarded in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Yemen on Thursday, Bulgarian National TV (BNT) has reported. The incident comes amid repeated attacks by Yemeni Houthi rebels on shipping in the region, prompting the US to take countermeasures. Details on the current whereabouts of the vessel, the Ruen, remain unclear. However, the Navigation... 

Illegal migration into Bulgaria has surged to “unprecedented” levels, according to officials. The number of illegal crossings being thwarted by Bulgarian authorities is up 30% since the beginning of the year, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Demerdzhiev revealed last week, Novinite reports. “The migrant pressure we are under is unprecedented,” Minister Demerdzhiev said... 

Bulgarian authorities have arrested multiple suspects after more than 50 Afghan migrants were found trapped inside an abandoned truck last week, according to reports. The horrifying discovery was made on Friday near Sofia. Police came upon a cargo truck on a highway outside the capital city and during a search, located dozens of people in a secret compartment behind a load of lumber. In total, 52... 

Illegal migrants are paying up to €10,000 each to be escorted to the Bulgarian border with Serbia, Bulgarian authorities revealed on Tuesday following a crackdown on clandestine networks that saw 92 people charged with smuggling offenses. The hugely profitable model operated by smugglers along the Balkan migratory route sees migrants picked up in Turkey and smuggled across the border into Bulgaria,... 

Romania, angered by Austria’s decision last week to single-handedly veto the country’s accession to the border-control-free Schengen Area of the European Union, has recalled its ambassador to Vienna, Emil Hurezeanu. Romania has also called on Romanian nationals to boycott Austrian holiday resorts during the winter ski season. Last Thursday, only one of three Schengen hopefuls, Croatia, was admitted... 

Gerhard Karner, Austria’s interior minister, has declared that his country will not support an enlargement of the Schengen region at this time due to inadequate border controls. Following Ylva Johansson’s declaration that it was time for Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania to ratify the accord, he made his statement shortly after. Karner stated in an interview with Austria’s Kurier newspaper... 

Two Bulgarian police died early Thursday after trying to stop a bus with 47 migrants who had entered Bulgaria illegally, according to Stanimir Stanev, a senior Interior Ministry official. The incident occurred at 5 a.m. in the Black Sea city of Burgas after the vehicle refused to stop at two consecutive police border checkpoints, Stanev told reporters. On the bus, which bore Turkish license plates,... 

Nearly 60,000 Ukrainian refugees have been residing in Bulgarian Black Sea hotels since the beginning of the war in Ukraine but now as the summer tourist season is about to begin, Bulgaria has begun to evict the refugees from the hotels. About 35,000 Ukrainians have been evicted, ordered to pack their bags and find a new place where to stay. The order was on a short notice and the people weren’t... 

Major European powers like Germany and Austria continue to buy Russia’s gas and oil, refusing to cut the imports while the hypocrites blame Hungary for doing the same. Well now, Germany, why don’t you set an example and you become the first to but the imports??? You want impoverished nations like Hungary who barely earn enough money to put bread on the table to cut the gas imports and... 

Bulgaria will not negotiate a new natural gas contract with Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom, amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Assen Vassilev said Saturday. “In this situation, there’s no way there are talks with Gazprom,” he told BNR public radio. The country currently has a 10-year gas supply contract with Gazprom, which runs... 

The clashes between migrants and the Greek police, which have been occurring frequently since Turkey began allowing migrants to cross its territory at the end of February, reached a new intensity on Wednesday. Migrants again attacked Greek officers during the night, but this time used incendiary Molotov cocktails, which set fire to the border fence in the Evros region, according to a report by Remix... 

The Bulgarian government on Monday opened one of its dams along the Evros River to raise the river’s water level in an attempt to stop migrants who are trying to cross the Greek-Turkish border. The Ivaylovgrad Dam was opened at Greece’s request. The operation was successful in raising the river’s water level, the Greek Reporter reports. Bulgaria’s action took place as the standoff between... 

Peter Andrews is an Irish science journalist and writer, based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Genetics. Each year, more than 6,500 cases of bladder cancer, roughly five percent of all cases in Europe, are found to be attributable to exposure to trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water – and it’s all perfectly legal. For... 

After Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Israel have refused to sign the Marrakech Agreement, now Bulgaria complains about the UN Global Migration Compact on Immigration. Specifically, Bulgaria is speeding up their moves to protect themselves as they observe the daily invasion by thousands of illegal immigrants in Greece, from the gateway of Evros. Tsvetan Tsvetanov, deputy chairman of the ruling...