20.04.2026
REFA-basic course has started in Sofia
The basic REFA qualification course on the topic: "Organization and management of the company and optimization of production processes" has started, which will be held from March 9, 2026. The course is held in two modules. Each module consists of 80 study hours (8 study hours per day of 45 minutes). Those who successfully pass the final exams receive an internationally recognized REFA-certificate. More information about the training at www.refa.bia-bg.com

24.05.2026
May 24 is an official holiday in Bulgaria
May 24 is the official holiday of Bulgarian Culture. This is St.St Cyril and Methodius and Slavic Alphabet Day

01.06.2026
International Children's Day
International Children's Day is celebrated for the first time in 1927 - the second Sunday after Easter Sunday on mironostsite. Conceived and launched by the Union for the Protection of Children in Bulgaria, it is guided by the Supreme Committee chaired by Bishop Stefan. Were created thousands of dining, children's camps and summer resorts in the monasteries. Celebrated it with literary programs and children's activities. After the 1950 day is proclaimed on June 1, marking International Children's Day.

11.06.2026
Professional holiday of economists in Bulgaria
The Day of the Economist is celebrated on June 11, 2005 by a decision of the Council of Ministers on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the establishment (1895) of the first Bulgarian Economic Society in Bulgaria, renamed in 1990 to the Union of Economists in Bulgaria. The scientific society, founded in 1895, contributed to the creation of a liberated Bulgaria and continuously participates in the construction of a modern and European Bulgaria. A whole galaxy of famous Bulgarians have been members of the society, it has given Bulgaria a series of prime ministers, ministers, academics. Its members were even such proven masters of the pen as Ivan Vazov and Aleko Konstantinov.

01.07.2026
Issue No 6700 of the electronic edition of BIA - "Business Industry Capital"
On this day, ¹6700 issues of the electronic edition of BIA - "Business Industry Capital" are published. The first issue comes on September 15, 1999, published by BIC Capital Market Ltd.- specialized in providing of business information. For 27 years, the edition has become a preferred business and media partner for over 42,200 subscribers from home and abroad. "Business Industry Capital" presents daily in Bulgarian and Bulgarian the most important economic events in Bulgaria - financial, corporate, stock exchange and news from the Bulgarian Industrial Association (BIA).
The main mission has always been to promote Bulgarian economy and Bulgarian business. Our publishing team has accepted the challenge of further developing Business Industries Capital as a publication to make more friends and partners of Bulgaria, BIA and Bulgarian business.

26.07.2026
100th anniversary from the establishment of the first State Insurance Supervision in Bulgaria
On July 26, 1926, the State Gazette promulgated the Law on State Control over the Private Insurance Enterprises. The Managing Board of the state watchdog was set to be its supreme body. The Board has issued permissions for insurance activity, companies’ merger or transfer of insurance portfolios. It has also issued guidelines on recovery and activity suspension, as well as declaring bankruptcy. The expenses on its establishment and provision were on the account of the insurance companies that were initially obliged to pay 5%, and later 4% of their premium income. One of the first managers was the prominent actuary Mr. Hristo Petrov (a deputy director of the State Supervision over the Insurance Enterprises Department). His death-rate table has been quite widely used in the Bulgarian insurance.

06.09.2026
September 6 - Official Holiday of Bulgaria
September 6 is the Day of the Union of Eastern Rumelia with the Bulgarian Principality in 1885.

22.09.2026
The Independence Day (Bulgarian National Holiday)
On September 22, 1908, Bulgaria declared its full independence from Ottoman control. Signing the Bulgarian Declaration of Independence nullified the harmful clauses of the Treaty of Berlin under which the greater part of the railway lines in Southern Bulgaria were under the regimen of capitulations (as Turkey's property) which entailed the payment of an annual tax to Turkey. After the Treaty of Berlin (1878) Macedonia remained under Ottoman rule, while after the wars and the peace treaties (Bucharest, 1913, and Neuilly, 1919) the greater part of it was incorporated into Serbia and Greece. The idea of the national unification of the Bulgarians was fatally doomed, mostly by the policy of the imperialist diktat, but for those affected it was impossible to abandon it. An armed struggle began which in its content, organizational methods and purposes was a continuation of the Bulgarian national-liberation movement of the ‘70s of the 19th century. However, the Ottoman rulers were pushed out of Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace not by means of a democratic revolution but through Bulgaria's, Serbia's, Greece's and Montenegro's military might in the First Balkan war of 1912.