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Former boxing champion Rudi Lubbers is released today from his unheated van in rural Bulgaria. That is, if he needs it. He can go to friends...

A collection campaign for former boxing champion Rudi Lubbers was set up under the name HelpRudiLubbers. The occasion is the broadcast of Andere Tijden Sport last night. Viewers then responded...

With a financial contribution from the EU, a plastic fake castle was set up in Bulgaria. This is evident from a new film by documentary filmmaker Marijn Poels, who together with PVV MEP Olaf Stuger conducted research in the Eastern European country.

Queen Sofia of Spain attended Monday the funeral of the saturday opera singer Montserrat Caballé. The farewell ceremony took place in a funeral home in the Les Corts district in Barcelona.

A bus accident in Bulgaria took the lives of at least fifteen passengers on Saturday. The bus hit the road near the Iskar Gorge, north of the capital Sofia, reporting media in the country.

Bulgaria is accelerating the renovation of 211 rickety bridges as a result of the disaster in Genoa. Viaducts of 35 years and older have never been thoroughly taken care of, some even not at all. The Minister of Regional Development Nikolaj Nankov said this on Wednesday during the cabinet meeting in Sofia.

NATO member Bulgaria is going to modernize its army. It still works largely with Russian technology. Head of government Boiko Borisov announced on Thursday that it is an investment of 1.5 to 2 billion euros, while in his country there are many needy sectors besides defense. Bulgaria has been a member of NATO since 2004.

At the EU mini-summit on migration this weekend, Bulgaria will propose the immediate conclusion of the external borders of the European Union for migrants. At the same time, centers for war refugees must come outside the EU territory. Prime Minister Bojko Borisov said this Friday during a surprise visit to the Bulgarian parliament.

The Bulgarian cow Penka does not come to an end after a trip to a Serbian pasture. 'The cow is not killed,' says a spokeswoman for the Bulgarian Ministry of Food Safety. The animal had exceeded the EU limits and according to the legislation an animal that has been outside the EU can no longer be traced back.

A Bulgarian cow has caused a lot of commotion by wandering to a probably greener meadow with the neighbors in Serbia. Penka returned on his own initiative but the EU rules require that they should be completed now.

The European Commission wants nothing more than that six Balkan countries join the EU. But powerful Member States such as Germany and France are skeptical and the Netherlands is also reluctant to bring in new countries.

The six Balkan countries that want to become members of the EU are not ready for that yet, but must keep an eye on accession. The union therefore wants to create a 'web of connections and opportunities' to bring the countries closer. Not only connections in the areas of transport, energy, migration, safety and climate, but also in the digital, economic and human fields.

It could well be a long dinner tonight in Sofia. The 28 leaders of the EU countries are pushing for an informal gathering. The agenda is determined by someone who is not even: Donald Trump.

The route of the six Balkan countries that want to join the European Union will look more like a hurdle than on a motorway. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of Heads of Government, said that in Tirana he was visiting the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Tusk called it in the EU's interest for the region to be 'fully' integrated into the union and, in his view, this will ultimately happen.

It is time to negotiate accession to the European Union with Albania and Macedonia. The European Commission makes this recommendation to the 28 EU countries. Both candidate countries have made sufficient progress, according to Brussels, but there is still a long way to go, including in the area of ​​anti-corruption and crime prevention.

In Bulgaria, commotion arose about the death of dozens of horses. Activists found the dying animals on a mountainside in the west of the country, near the border with Macedonia.

Serbia is prepared to reach a compromise with Kosovo before the planned accession to the European Union (EU). 'But for each compromise two parties are required,' said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic Friday in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. 'The dialogue with Kosovo will be difficult. But Serbia wants to give everything ', according to Vucic after a meeting with his Bulgarian colleague Rumen Radev.

The Bulgarian Public Prosecutor's Office is going to investigate how the owners of some expensive houses are getting their money. Bulgarians who drive around in expensive cars can also count on the special attention of the authorities.

Bulgaria wants to start the procedure within six months to join the euro zone. The government announced this in Sofia following the first EU presidency of the former Eastern bloc. Exactly eleven years after joining the European Union on 1 January 2007, Bulgaria has been temporarily chairman for six months, until 1 July.

King Felipe enjoys broad appreciation in Spain. This is shown by a survey that was held to measure support for the monarchy. They rate him with the figure of 7.4, much higher than any politician.

Bulgaria is the new temporary President of the EU. It is the first time that the former Eastern Bloc fulfills that role for six months, exactly eleven years after it joined the union on 1 January 2007.

Nine people were killed in a bus accident in the middle of Bulgaria. The driver of the bus is also among the victims. According to Bulgarian media, this had been hit off the road and hit a truck.

The Mexican authorities went through the dust after a reliever about a non-existent schoolgirl. They allegedly wrong this week that this twelve-year-old 'Frida Sofia' was living under the rubble of a collapsed school in Mexico City.

In the fight against illegal migration, Bulgaria wants to tighten up security at the border with Turkey. The border is divided into five zones, each zone is guarded by armed troops, the Bulgarian Defense Minister said. Six hundred soldiers are deployed.

Two beautiful Ukrainian young women have streamed their own death live on Instagram.

Thousands of residents of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, welcomed the royal family on Tuesday.

The new Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Regional Development has already gone after two days. Pavel Tenev was struck by a nine year old photo on which he brought the Hitler greeting.

The Bulgarian fence along the border with Turkey is almost ready. Alongside this 259 kilometer long external border of the European Union, only barriers to illegal crossing over the last 21 kilometers must be built, said Interior Minister Valentin Radev on Friday in parliament.

The center-right GERB after the Sunday elections again the largest party in the parliament of Bulgaria. Party leader Boiko Borisov has under it claimed the right to form the new government, his third.

The Bulgarian police on Friday an end to the blockade of the border with Turkey. The border was blocked by Bulgarian nationalists, who wanted to prevent ethnic Turkish Bulgarians will vote Sunday. Bulgaria elect a new parliament Sunday.