The Latest Breaking News from Bulgaria

Bulgaria will become the 21st country to join the euro currency union on New Year's Day

Voters across the continent have huge choices to make at the ballot box in the upcoming year. Euronews takes a look at the key electoral tests awaiting the EU - and beyond - in the year ahead.

The Balkan country of 6.5 million people joined the EU in 2007 and formally began the process of joining the eurozone in 2018.

Teams reportedly requesting more funding from RCS to travel to Grande Partenza in Bulgaria, have rejected first two offers

A 56-year-old Bulgarian national has died while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at a detention facility in Michigan, bringing the number of deaths in ICE detention this year to at least 30.

Claims online frame Bulgaria's mass protests as driven by anti-EU sentiment, but the reality is more complex.

A dying breed.

Bulgaria's government collapse follows weeks of mass protests over corruption and budget hikes, prompting Prime Minister Zhelyazkov's resignation and snap elections

The fall is the biggest of any of the G7 countries with the UK overtaken by a string of European counterparts including Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Czech Republic, Italy and Hungary

The reparations loan for Ukraine is in doubt after Italy, Bulgaria, Malta and the Czech Republic joined the Belgian opposition and called for "alternative solutions". EU leaders will gather on Thursday to decide how to meet Kyiv's financial and military needs for the next two years.

Extremely rare evidence of a lion attack on a teenage boy's remains suggests the teenager survived the initial trauma but became severely disabled, requiring support from his community.