Bulgaria

The tunes from Budapest, Warsaw and Sofia underscores deepening East-West and North-South divisions inside the EU

“This is part of Russian attempts to disrupt Starlink operations and influence the success of Ukrainian operations. The target is Ukraine,” an official stated

Radev seeks EU backing for a halt to commercial vessel strikes in a joint initiative with Romania and Turkey, as leaders confront hybrid threats and prepare for Zelenskyy’s arrival

If confirmed, a Russian drone strike on a commercial vessel inside Romanian territorial waters would almost certainly prompt Bucharest to invoke NATO’s Article 4

Skopje has issued an international arrest warrant for the young woman, who fled to Bulgaria to seek medical treatment

Sofia seeks urgent EU and NATO assistance to identify the drones after four merchant vessels were hit in Bulgaria’s Black Sea EEZ within a week

Weeks earlier, an important Starlink station was set on fire in Poland. Starlink plays a key communications role for the Ukrainian army

The Ukrainian president’s chief of staff met Prime Minister Rumen Radev reportedly to discuss a peaceful settlement of the war

Groups from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia are joining forces to seek a two-year delay to EU climate rules

President Iliana Iotova called for a moratorium on hostilities in the Black Sea and for turning it into a zone of shared security

X and Facebook hosted coordinated inauthentic accounts that amplified ruling-party narratives and attacked election authorities ahead of Bosnia’s 4 October vote

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