Dondukov

Bulgaria is the primary force behind the European integration of the Western Balkan countries, recognizing the importance of this integration for the region's security, stability, and sustainable economic development. President Rumen Radev emphasized the need for the integration process to be based on individual merits to ensure its sustainability and irreversibility.

"As the president of Croatia also said - each EU member state has its own historical path. And this is the richness of the EU - that we have different historical roots, we have different national ideas, we have a different path until we reach the EU.

Cooperation between Bulgaria and Turkey in the field of security, joint border policing and countering illegal trafficking in human beings discussed today at a meeting at "Dondukov" 2 the Head of State Rumen Radev and the Ambassador of our southeastern neighbor H.R.Ailin Sekizkok, the press secretariat of the President's Office announced.

President Rumen Radev  with Acting US Ambassador to Bulgaria Hero Mustafa in the presidency at Dondukov 2.

Head of State Rumen Radev held a meeting with Parliament Speaker Tsveta Karayancheva at 2 Dondukov street, at which the necessity of promptly adopting the prepared legislative amendments related to the introduced state of emergency because of the coronavirus were discussed.

The Bulgarian Interior Ministry suggested on Wednesday that the attack on investigative journalist and editor Slavi Angelov on Sofia's central Dondukov Boulevard could be related to his work.

"Most likely it is an attempted assassination," Ivaylo Ivanov, the Interior Ministry's chief secretary, told Nova TV.

While everyone was waiting for Rumen Radev's decision to sign or not to appoint Ivan Geshev as Attorney General, the Head of State preferred to make a special statement in which he will to announce his decision.

Rumen Radev's statement will be given on "Dondukov" at exactly 5.05 pm.

A huge piece of a building's balcony, located at the corner of Knyaz Al. Dondukov Blvd. and Bacho Kiro Street, broke off and fell on the sidewalk. No injured people.

The site of the incident is located opposite the former party house and the KEVR.

The metro and part of the ground transport will work on New Year's Eve and night buses will run on a modified route, the press center of Sofia Municipality announced.

Trams serving lines 5, 7, 8, 12, 18, 20 and 22, trolley numbers 1, 2, 4 and 9, as well as buses on lines 83, 102, 85, 285, 310, 213, will run over the night.

The new Plenary Hall of the National Assembly in the former Party House should be opened by the middle of next year after its renewal was delayed. The repair of St Sofia hall is estimated at about 25 million leva, and it was precisely in it that the events related to the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU had to be held.