Starting May 20, 2026, the short-term rental market in Bulgaria will face stricter regulations: new EU-wide rules will require mandatory registration of properties and data sharing between platforms and the government, which could lead to the mass removal of illegal listings from Airbnb and Booking.com. The source of these changes is EU Regulation 2024/1028 on the collection and exchange of data regarding short-term rentals, which takes effect on May 20, 2026. Its goal is to increase transparency in the sector, simplify the identification of landlords, and provide national authorities with a tool to monitor compliance with local requirements.
According to Boris Pavlov, chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Tourism Real Estate and Innovation, about half of the current short-term rental listings in Bulgaria may disappear from platforms if owners do not register properly. This primarily concerns the shadow market segment, which has operated without full administrative and tax legalization.
Bulgarian law already requires that short-term rentals be registered as tourist accommodations rather than as ordinary private rentals. To do this, as industry guidelines indicate, municipal registration, submission of guest data via the ESTI system, and payment of tourist tax are typically required. New EU regulations are tightening controls specifically at the level of digital platforms, which will be required to work only with properly registered properties.
For the real estate and tourism markets, this has a dual effect. On the one hand, part of the supply may indeed leave the platforms in the coming months, which will support prices in the legal segment and strengthen the position of professional operators. On the other hand, stricter market filtering should increase the sector’s transparency, tax collection, and the predictability of rules for investors.
Against this backdrop, Bulgaria is entering a phase of a more formalized short-term rental market, where the key advantage will be not simply the availability of a property, but its full compliance with local and European regulations.
According to the Interfax-Ukraine Culture project, “this year, the competition received 179 applications from publishers around the world—experts at the Ukrainian Book Institute received 18 more applications than last year. A total of 176 projects submitted by 119 publishers from 44 countries passed the technical screening. Based on the evaluation results, the Expert Council approved 100 translation projects. According to the plan, all of them will be published this year,” the Institute stated in its announcement.
It is noted that the most translations are planned into Polish—9 publications, English—8, Serbian—7, followed by Czech and German—6 publications each, and 5 books will be published in Arabic, French, and Italian.
“In total, Ukrainian books will be translated into 30 languages. In addition to those mentioned, the list includes Slovak, Spanish, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Macedonian—4 books each; Greek, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Georgian—3 each; and Swedish, Azerbaijani, Portuguese, and Bengali—2 each. One book each will be published in Finnish, Romanian, Hebrew, Japanese, Estonian, Hungarian, Danish, Albanian, and Bosnian,” the UIC reported.
The Institute noted that foreign publishers were most interested in the book on modern warfare *Hemingway Knows Nothing* by Artur Dron; specifically, it will be published in Swedish, Polish, Lithuanian, English, Slovak, Georgian, French, and Portuguese.
In addition, Illarion Pavliuk’s mystical detective novel *I See You Are Interested in Darkness* will be available to Finnish, Czech, Polish, Romanian, and Azerbaijani readers, while Sofia Andrukhovych’s *Amadok* is set to be published in French, Spanish, Lithuanian, and Azerbaijani.
A detailed list of the winning projects is available at the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LqUVQOfAiPASGYxuIpLqJwjTnj3giqZsaIOWIYO2eRg/edit?gid=0#gid=0
As reported, 75 new translations of Ukrainian books have been published as part of the Translate Ukraine 2025 program.
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According to Fixygen, JSC “Globus Commercial Bank” will hold its annual general meeting of shareholders on April 27, 2026, via remote participation. The list of key issues to be discussed includes approval of the bank’s performance results, financial statements, distribution of financial results, and decisions regarding corporate governance. The bank discloses relevant information in a special section for shareholders.
Globus Bank was registered by the National Bank of Ukraine on November 29, 2007. The bank operates as a universal commercial institution, serving corporate and private clients.
https://www.fixygen.ua/news/20260406/kb-globus-priznachiv-zbori-aktsioneriv-na-27-kvitnya.html
The ADONIS Medical Group’s private higher education institution (PHEI) has begun recruiting for its residency program. As Lilia Ponamaryova, ADONIS’s Vice Rector for Strategic Development, told Interfax-Ukraine, the residency program is conducted at ADONIS’s modern medical centers, which are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment.
As part of the new recruitment drive, training programs are now available in the following specialties: surgery, neurology, otorhinolaryngology, dermatology and venereology, orthopedics and traumatology, general practice—family medicine, obstetrics, and gynecology.
Interns will work under the supervision of experienced physicians who serve as mentors and impart practical skills and clinical experience.
“We eagerly await new interns who are eager to develop, learn, and work in modern medicine. ADONIS creates all the conditions for professional growth and the start of a successful medical career,” said Ponamaryova.
She noted that the institute already has a successful track record of training interns, and a systematic training model has been developed at the university that combines theory, clinical reasoning, and real-world practice.
ADONIS emphasizes that the residency program is focused on training doctors who work according to the principles of evidence-based medicine, confidently make clinical decisions, and are ready to work with patients from the very first years of their professional careers.
“Our goal is not simply to produce a certified specialist, but a doctor who thinks critically, analyzes, and takes responsibility for clinical decisions. That is why interns are fully engaged in practical work and learn directly in a clinical setting. A high-quality internship is a key stage in a doctor’s development, and we continue to refine our training programs in line with modern medical standards and the needs of the healthcare system,” said Ponamaryova.
The private higher education institution “Institute of General Practice – Family Medicine” was established in 2007 by the ADONIS medical group to train specialists who will receive a state-recognized diploma in the field of specialized and general medical practice. The institution holds a valid license for medical practice.
Founded in 1997, Adonis is a multidisciplinary medical center for adults and children. The medical group includes seven modern clinics in Kyiv and the region, over 80 medical specialties, its own laboratories, surgical centers, inpatient facilities, and departments staffed by specialized professionals.
KMZ Industries (Karliv Machine-Building Plant, Poltava Oblast) will manufacture and install a complete set of elevator equipment for an oil extraction plant in Lviv Oblast, the plant announced on its website.
“KMZ Industries won a tender to manufacture and install a complete complex of elevator equipment for an oil extraction plant in the Lviv region. As part of the project, KMZ Industries’ own installation teams will install the equipment, and the process control systems division will install software to automate the elevator’s operation,” the statement said.
The scope of supply includes two conical silos with a diameter of 11 m (each with a storage capacity of 1,856 cubic meters), four conical silos with a diameter of 7.3 m (with a capacity of 584 cubic meters), and one conical silo with a diameter of 5.5 m and a capacity of 261 cubic meters.
A Brice-Baker grain dryer with a capacity of 11 tons/hour for corn at 10% moisture removal is provided for grain drying. It will be gas-fired, equipped with an aspiration system, and fully automated.
The project also includes conveying equipment with a capacity of 50 tons/hour—bucket elevators, chain scraper conveyors, and screw conveyors. A PreClean separator with a capacity of 125 tons/hour will be installed for preliminary grain cleaning.
The plant emphasizes that it uses galvanized steel from European manufacturers SSAB (Sweden), Voestalpine (Austria), and Wuppermann (Germany) to manufacture key equipment components.
“Conveying equipment is manufactured from galvanized steel with a zinc coating of 275 g/sq. m, while other equipment has a coating of 450 g/sq. m. The silo roof and grain dryer troughs have a protective coating based on magnesium and zinc, whose corrosion resistance is seven times higher than that of conventional zinc,” KMZ Industries reports.
The plant also notes that under a state program, agricultural producers and processors are eligible for a 25% reimbursement of the cost of its elevator equipment.
The plant does not disclose the cost of the equipment.
KMZ Industries is the largest manufacturer of grain storage equipment in Ukraine and produces a full range of products, including silos, grain dryers, conveying equipment, and separators, as well as providing automation and installation services.
According to the company, it has built over 5,000 facilities. KMZ Industries silos with a total capacity of over 12.5 million cubic meters are currently in operation.
According to Fixygen, Energetik Power Plant PJSC will hold a shareholders’ meeting on April 28, 2026, via remote participation. The agenda includes the approval of financial statements, performance results, and other corporate matters.
The company operates in the industrial and energy sector and is involved in the manufacture or maintenance of energy equipment. Companies of this type are an important part of the country’s repair and manufacturing base.
