Rosen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev awarded the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute with the honorary symbol of the head of state, reported Nova TV.

The award was presented for the extraordinary contribution of the institute to Bulgarian polar research.

Plovdiv is hosting for the first time the a conference exploring the city's economic success in the past decade and other potentially attractive regions.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is a keynote speaker. Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev, representatives of local authorities and financial institutions and businesses are set to take part.

Bulgaria is honouring on Tuesday all the people who helped develop and preserve its culture and pass it on to other generations, along with those who fought for its liberty under Ottoman rule.

Bulgaria has celebrated on November 1 since 1909, but banned festivities under Communism to renew them in 1992, with the regime considering them a show of "great Bulgarian chauvinism".

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev has said would be "exceptionally difficult to retain the vice presidential seat within the European Commission following Kristalina Georgieva's announcement she is leaving.

However, Bulgaria will do its best to keep the portfolio of Georgieva, Donchev has told private bTV station.

With less than a week to go before the presidential elections in Bulgaria on November 6, the likely winner is proving difficult to predict.

Latest polls have shown that the successor to President Rossen Plevneliev, backed in 2011 by Bulgaria's governing centre-right GERB party, will not be elected in the first round on Sunday.

Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev has kept his options to run for a second term in office.

Plevneliev is not taking part in next week's presidential elections, but has not explicitly ruled himself out for a subsequent election. His term expires in January.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will not be the country's nomination for European Commissioner, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said.

Borisov is yet to make clear who will be proposed as a successor to Kristalina Georgieva, the Bulgarian EU Commissioner who on Friday said she would leave in January to take over a CEO position at the World Bank Group.

New education models must guarantee a faster and more effective achievement of the purposes of education accepted worldwide.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has denied claims of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov that he was advised by so-called "Capital" circle to include him in the cabinet.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has told Canada's new Ambassador to Bulgaria Kevin Hamilton that Sofia needs guarantees from the Canadian government that visa liberalization will happen in 2017.