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2025 in Bulgaria
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Events in the year 2025 in Bulgaria.
Incumbents
- President: Rumen Radev
- Prime Minister: Dimitar Glavchev (until 16 January); Rosen Zhelyazkov (16 January onwards)
Events
January
- 1 January – Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen Area.[1]
- 16 January – The National Assembly approves a coalition government between GERB, the BSP and the ITN led by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov of GERB.[2]
February
- 6 February – The National Assembly votes against a bill from the pro-Russian Vazrazhdane party on foreign-funded NGOs. The bill is rejected after 112 MPs vote against, 38 support it and 48 abstain.[3]
- 22 February – A door at the Sofia branch of the European Commission is set on fire by protesters organized by the pro-Russian Vazrazhdane party demonstrating against Bulgaria's adoption of the euro.[4]
- 26 February – The Constitutional Court of Bulgaria orders a recount of votes cast in the October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election after voting discrepancies are found in half of polling stations sampled as part of an audit.[5]
March
- 14 March – The 51st National Assembly of Bulgaria is reconvened with adjustments made following the recount, which sees the Velichie party entering parliament.[6]
April
- 3 April – The Zhelzyazkov government survives a no-confidence motion filed by Vazrazhdane in the National Assembly.[7]
- 17 April – The Zhelzyazkov government survives a no-confidence motion filed by MECh in the National Assembly.[8]
June
- 4 June – The European Union approves Bulgaria's adoption of the euro, becoming the 21st member state of the eurozone effective 1 January 2026.[9]
July
- 20 July – Authorities seize a van at the border with Turkey in Haskovo Province carrying nearly 206 kilograms of cocaine valued at 20 million euros ($22 million) and arrest three people on board, including a Congolese diplomat stationed in Belgium, in what is the largest such seizure in Bulgaria's land orders.[10]
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Art and entertainment
Holidays
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 3 March – Liberation Day
- 18 April – Orthodox Good Friday
- 19–21 April – Orthodox Easter
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 6 May – Armed Forces Day and Saint George's Day
- 24 May – Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavic Script Day
- 6 September – Unification Day
- 22 September – Independence Day
- 1 November – Day of the Bulgarian Enlighteners
- 24 December – Christmas Eve
- 25–26 December – Christmas Days
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Deaths
- 2 July – Verka Siderova, 99, folk singer.[13]
- 6 August – Krastyo Ralenkov, 60, poet.[14]
- 10 August – Tatyana Chervenyakova, 71, physician.[15]
References
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