Bulgarian President Rumen Radev denounced as a hate crime the attack on the secretary of the Bulgarian cultural club 'Tsar Boris III' in Ohrid, North Macedonia

Illegally-built Roma homes in Sofia have been flattened despite European Court of Human Rights ruled demolition shouldn't proceed until a legal challenge is resolved; The 2016 decision to demolish follows Spatial Planning Act and locals were notified

Nationalist and anti-fascist marches were held in Sofia on the same day: far-right factions gathered to commemorate controversial general Hristo Lukov in the annual so-called Lukov March while a “No Nazis on our streets” demonstration was held earlier

With house prices in Bulgaria's ten largest cities having risen by 25-26% over the past two years, more and more people are buying real estate, with or without loans, fearing that house prices will rise further after the country joins the Eurozone

Bulgaria had the highest total fertility rate in the EU in 2023 with 1,81 live births per woman, followed by France (1,66) and Hungary (1,55), according to Eurostat data released on Friday 7 March 2024