Forty years ago, the communist authorities in Bulgaria began a brutal repression of the country's ethnic Turkish community. The Revival Process aimed to forcibly change Turkish names to Slavic ones, ban the community's language and traditions,

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Bulgaria is “well advanced” in the process of meeting the criteria for joining the euro.

In Varna, tourists strolling past the seaside city's Archaeological Museum might notice a monument of a shofar, a Jewish horn inscribed with thanks to Bulgarians, "for our salvation during the Holocaust," which concludes, "We remember!"

The report comes after the government said it was postponing the request a final report for Eurozone accession from EU institutions last week.

An Irish man, 29, has died following an accident near a ski resort in southwestern Bulgaria. A spokesperson for Razlog hospital told RTÉ News that the man passed away from serious injuries sustained during a fall near the Bansko mountain ski resort.

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the end of Communist rule. A predominantly Slavonic-speaking, Orthodox Christian country, Bulgaria was the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet, which was created there towards the end of the 9th Century.

Adoption of the euro as early as January 2026 is now a real possibility for Bulgaria, if its new coalition can stick together.

A UK-based spy ring had connections in the “highest echelons” of the Bulgarian government, a court has heard. Katrin Ivanova, 33, and two others are accused of being part of a group of Bulgarians who carried out surveillance on places and people of interest to the Russian state.

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A Bulgarian shipping company on Monday denied that one of its ships had intentionally damaged an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland.