The President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev visited Athens on October 14, 2020 and held talks with the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakelaropoulou and the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Due to the celebration of the official holidays in Bulgaria September 6 - Unification Day, and September 22 - Independence Day of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Embassy in Athens will be closed on September 7, 2020 (Monday) and September 22, 2020 (Tuesday).

On August 24, 2020, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov paid a visit to Athens, where together with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis, he attended an official signing ceremony of the contract finalizing the process of participation of Bulgaria in the project for a liquefied natural gas terminal near Alexandroupolis.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva visited Athens on July 27, 2020, on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Greece.

As from 1 March 2020, road vehicles with a total technically permissible maximum weight exceeding 3,5 tonnes circulating on paid road sections in Bulgaria will have to pay for their use distance-based road charges – toll. The toll replaces the electronic vignette for heavy vehicles and buses.

Guide to the Media accredited to cover the visit of Pope Francis to Bulgaria

An electronic system (e-vignette and toll), as a modern way of charging for the use of the national road network, is introduced in Bulgaria as of 1 January 2019. In the attached file, you will find more information on where and how you can buy E-Vignette and how to convert your paper vignette to an electronic one.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria would like to inform that, considering the recent amendments to the Law on the Roads of the Republic of Bulgaria, vehicles entering the Republic of Bulgaria without a valid vignette fee document, may only continue their journey after paying the necessary fee for the respective category at the newly established specialized units of the Customs Agency at each border checkpoint.

The Bulgarian Embassy in Greece says that on May 1 2013, declared by the Greek government to be a working day, the Pan-Hellenic Confederation of Workers and the Pan-Hellenic Seamen’s Federation intend to conduct 24-hour strikes. Throughout the day, from a minute past midnight to 12am, it is expected that all ports in Greece will not be working.