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Funding crisis: Sofia Pride is struggling to survive

Friday, Jun 12, 2026

Mediapool

Sofia Pride faces survival concerns due to budget cuts and funding instability, mirroring trends across Europe’s LGBTQ+ scene.

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Organizers of Bulgaria’s largest LGBT event, Sofia Pride, are discussing survival for this year’s edition due to a nearly halved budget and increasingly uncertain international funding. The future of the capital’s event appears likely to be without stages, concerts, or platforms. Such difficulties are not unique to Bulgaria, as pride organizations in various European countries are also forced to cut costs and adapt to an increasingly polarized political environment. Bulgaria held its first pride event in 2008.

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PULSE – Europe beyond the beat is an initiative coordinated by OBCT which has been promoting intense journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. The main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

PULSE’s offering also includes the distribution of free content to third-party outlets and the animation of four thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, Europe and other global powers, the green transition, or media and information society.

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved, which produces new journalistic content on European issues in a collaborative way on a daily basis, coming in many languages. A further layer of associated partners and journalists enriches PULSE’s editorial output, which amounts to over a thousand publications per year.