[size=75:31s9t48b]novinite December 16, 2009

Bulgaria Government Lengthens National Holidays for 2010

The Bulgarian government has announced that the holiday around St. George’s Day (‘Gergiovden’) will last for 4 days while workers will be given 3 days off to welcome New Year 2011.

According to the government decision May 7, which falls on a Friday, will be a national holiday and Saturday May 15 will be a working day to make up for it. December 31 2010 will also be an official national holiday.

It was also announced that religious holidays, for religions other than Orthodox, during which followers are entitled to paid or unpaid leave:

Catholic: April 25, June 29, November 1 and December 8;
Muslims: 9-10 September, 16-17 November;
Jewish: 30 March, 9,18,23 September.

Should have made it a week makes more sense when you think about it

More here includes more dates



Bulgaria will have a four-day non-working holiday in May 2010, the Cabinet decided at its weekly meeting on December 16 2009, news agencies said.

The reason is that May 6, celebrated as St George's Day and Army Day, which is a public holiday, falling on a Thursday in 2010. Because of this, the Cabinet decided to declare Friday May 7 2010 a non-working day which, together with the weekend, adds up to four non-working days.

To compensate for May 7, the Cabinet decided to declare Saturday May 15 2010 a working day.


The Cabinet declared Friday, December 31 2010 a non-working day, given that January 1 is a public holiday. This will give Bulgarians three official consecutive days off for New Year 2010-2011

To compensate for the day off on December 31, Bulgarians will work on Saturday, December 11 2010. The Cabinet also approved a draft bill amending the Labour Code to make Good Friday also a non-working day.

In 2010 Good Friday is on April 2, which would give Bulgarians a four-day long Easter holiday, counting in the existing holiday on Eastern Monday.

Public holidays in Bulgaria in 2010 are January 1 (New Year's Day), March 3 (Liberation Day), April 4 (Eastern Orthodox Easter), May 1 (Labour Day), May 6 (St George's Day and Army Day), May 24 (Day of Bulgarian Culture and the Slavonic Alphabet), September 6 (Unification Day), September 22 (Independence Day), and December 24-26 (Christmas).