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🇧🇬 The Bulgarian government withdrew its contentious 2026 “euro-budget” after tens of thousands protested in Sofia. GERB’s plan relied on sharply expanded public spending and major wage hikes for over 558,000 state employees, pushing the burden onto businesses and taxpayers.

The backlash from the middle class and private sector forced a retreat, signaling the emergence of a strong anti-populist front that could upend Bulgaria’s eurozone entry strategy and destabilize the ruling coalition.
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Turkish President Erdogan:

It is becoming evident that the war between Russia and Ukraine has reached a point where it clearly threatens navigational safety in the Black Sea.

The targeting of commercial vessels in our exclusive economic zone on Friday signals a worrying escalation.
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🇬🇷 Greek farmers have blocked multiple roads across the country, demanding reparations for destroyed crops and protesting the high costs for their work efforts.

The epicentre is in Nikaia, Larissa, while other movements can be spotted in the E-65 highway in Karditsa and the Evzones customs station.


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—❗️🇧🇬 URGENT: Tens of thousands of mostly Gen Z protesters have flooded Sofia and other major Bulgarian cities, rallying against the government’s proposed 2026 state budget, which they denounce as unfair and opaque.

➡️ Demonstrators, many of them students, have blocked central boulevards, marched on ruling party headquarters and clashed with police amid calls for the budget to be withdrawn and for the government to resign.​

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Bulgaria’s state administration salary reached 3,088 leva (€1,580) in Q3 2025, up 417 leva from 2024. It ranks 5th among economic sectors, with the highest pay in IT/telecom, finance, energy, and scientific professions; and the lowest in hospitality, agriculture…
Why are people protesting in Bulgaria?

Public sector wage rose 14% first three quarters of 2025 compared to 11% private sector.

New budget proposals would increase mandatory tax on the working class to 44% and eventually to 46%.

Over 530,000 pensioners have a pension less that $378.
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"If we don't get a contract by Friday, we will start negotiations on Monday, and we will get gas from another party. We have secured the money," - Vucic said at a press conference.
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"If we don't get a contract by Friday, we will start negotiations on Monday, and we will get gas from another party. We have secured the money," - Vucic said at a press conference.
Vučić also stated payment for NIS workers will go ahead this week until Friday. Such a move risks secondary sanctions on Serbian financial institutions.
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Vučić also stated payment for NIS workers will go ahead this week until Friday. Such a move risks secondary sanctions on Serbian financial institutions.
The United States rejected Serbia's request to continue crude oil supplies to the Pančevo refinery.
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—❗️🇧🇬 URGENT: Tens of thousands of mostly Gen Z protesters have flooded Sofia and other major Bulgarian cities, rallying against the government’s proposed 2026 state budget, which they denounce as unfair and opaque. ➡️ Demonstrators, many of them students…
—❗️🇧🇬 UPDATE: The initially peaceful rally escalated when masked groups attacked police near the MRF-New Beginning headquarters, prompting tear gas deployment and reinforced gendarmerie units, with more than 10 arrests, multiple injuries and significant damage to municipal property and police vehicles reported.

➡️ Ambulances treated injured protesters, officers and journalists as police pushed back the most aggressive groups.

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—🇦🇱/🇲🇰 NEW: Bilall Kasami, an ethnic Albanian political leader in North Macedonia, has proposed that Macedonia become an Albanian state, arguing that Kosovo is already the second Albanian state and questioning why Macedonia should not follow.

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—❗️🇧🇬 UPDATE: The initially peaceful rally escalated when masked groups attacked police near the MRF-New Beginning headquarters, prompting tear gas deployment and reinforced gendarmerie units, with more than 10 arrests, multiple injuries and significant damage…
—❗️🇧🇬 URGENT: Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said in a televised address that the cabinet has failed, its resignation is inevitable and snap elections are the only way out, speaking after some of the biggest protests in years over the government’s 2026 budget plans and corruption allegations.

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—❗️🇧🇬 UPDATE: The initially peaceful rally escalated when masked groups attacked police near the MRF-New Beginning headquarters, prompting tear gas deployment and reinforced gendarmerie units, with more than 10 arrests, multiple injuries and significant damage…
—❗️🇧🇬 UPDATE: Mass anti-government protests over Bulgaria’s contentious 2026 budget also took place in the Black Sea city of Varna, with demonstrations reported in multiple cities across the country against higher taxes, austerity measures and entrenched corruption.

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