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.

Södertörn University in Stockholm conferred an honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa) to prof. Elena Marushiakova, associate professor at the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Science and professor at the University St Andrews, where she currently works on a study of the Roma peoples’ civic emancipation in the period between the two World wars of the 20th century – the Roma Inter Bellum project, funded by the European Research Council.

The Minister of Interior of the Republic of Bulgaria Mladen Marinov paid a working visit to Sweden

The Bulgarian Christmas song "The Son of God" was performed at the St. Johannes Church in Stockholm at the Christmas concert held on December 17, 2019, on a joint initiative by the Representation of the European Commission and the embassies to Sweden of 12 EU Member States – Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia , Hungary, Austria, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

Ambassador Ivan Pavlov represented Bulgaria at the meeting in Stockholm for the 19th Replenishment of the World Bank’s International Development Association

First Bulgarian School in Stockholm organized traditional Christmas celebration

On December 8, 2019, the Bulgarian Orthodox Community in Malmö, South Sweden, hosted the traditional Christmas celebration.

The Bulgarian film director Stefan Komandarev presented his new film "Rounds" on November 12th, 2019, at the 30th edition of the International Stockholm Film Festival.

Ambassador Ivan Pavlov participated in the EU Arctic Forum