News
| Date | Title | |
| 07 Sep. 2025 |  | NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) and the Directorate General Fire Safety and Civil Protection (DG FSCP) of Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior are organizing NATO’s 20th Emergency Management exercise, “BULGARIA 2025”. The conduct of BULGARIA 2025 will be from 7 September 2025 to 12 September 2025. |
| 14 Apr. 2025 |  |
Allies practise coordination of mutual cyber support through NATO From 7 to 11 April, representatives from 20 Allied government and national agencies exercised NATO’s ability to coordinate responses to significant malicious cyber activities affecting critical national infrastructures. |
| 12 Mar. 2025 |  | On Wednesday (12 March 2025), NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska welcomed Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to the North Atlantic Council. Ms. Shekerinska emphasised Allies’ respect for the ICRC’s mandate and highlighted the importance of NATO-ICRC cooperation on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and humanitarian affairs. |
| 08 Mar. 2025 |  |
Meet Lieutenant Colonel Annukka Ylivaara, who commanded Finland’s Jaeger urban combat battalion In May 2022, just a few days before Finland applied to join NATO, Lieutenant Colonel Annukka Ylivaara took command of the Uusimaa Jaeger Battalion, the Finnish Army’s elite training unit for urban combat operations. She now serves at the Finnish Ministry of Defence and helps coordinate her country’s preparedness related to comprehensive security. How did her military journey start? And what does her country being a NATO member mean to her? |
| 03 Mar. 2025 |  | Two of NATO’s naval task groups have taken part in NATO’s largest exercise of 2025, Exercise Steadfast Dart, in the Aegean Sea. The exercise took place from 10 - 17 February 2025. |
| 27 Feb. 2025 |  |
Annual meeting of NATO’s Partnership Training and Education Centres The annual Partnership Training and Education Centres (PTEC) Marketplace took place on 19 February 2025 at the Van der Valk Congress Center in Mons, Belgium. Representatives from 28 PTECs gathered to exchange expertise, forge new connections, and discuss further synergies in the key domain of military education and training. For the first time, the PTEC Marketplace was organized in close coordination with the 4th Annual Disciplines Forum, which is conducted as part of the NATO Education, Training, Exercise and Evaluation (ETEE) system. |
| 13 Feb. 2025 |  |
NATO launches two new multinational air defence initiatives, strengthens existing projects On Thursday (13 February 2025), NATO launched two new multinational High-Visibility initiatives to further enhance the protection of its airspace and strengthen its deterrence and defence. At a signing ceremony held at NATO Headquarters, 15 Allies committed to developing more efficient solutions to lower-level air threats – that is, threats flying below 500 feet/150 meters, which is less than half the height of the Eiffel Tower. |
| 27 Jan. 2025 |  | Secretary General Mark Rutte travelled to Lisbon and Madrid on Monday (27 January) for discussions on the security situation in Europe, the need to increase defence spending, and the importance of continued support to Ukraine. |
| 08 Jan. 2025 | With the logistic movements of the Allied Reaction Force (ARF) Headquarters Command Post, Steadfast Dart 2025 (STDT25) is ready to start. The exercise is the first large-scale deployment of the ARF since its establishment last year. It is aimed to test the deployable capabilities and procedures as well as the interoperability among the troop contributors and host nations. | |
| 19 Dec. 2024 |  |
NATO Secretary General hails Bulgaria’s contributions to Euro-Atlantic security NATO’s Secretary General, Mark Rutte, visited Bulgaria today (19 December 2024), where he met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivan Kondov, and the Minister of Defence, Atanas Zapryanov, and with personnel from the NATO Multinational Battle Group at the Novo Selo Range Army Base. |