The Bulgarian Parliament will vote on second reading Wednesday and Thursday legislation relating to Bulgaria’s state budget for 2012. Prior to that, the Bulgarian government had agreed with trade unions not to up the retirement age before 2021, and had signed an agreement with representatives of farmers regarding much larger subsidies than those stipulated in [...]
They insisted on a meeting with Borisov and his Deputy, Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, but did not get a positive response. Meanwhile, the demonstrators, represented by the National Grain Producers Association, were invited to meet with Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, but declined the invitation on the grounds he is not authorized to sign any decisions. [...]
Stefan Sofiyanski, the highly popular-turned-controversial former Sofia mayor, launched his pre-election campaign for a new term as head of the municipality office on Sunday. Sofiyanski was Sofia Mayor in 1995-2005, after being elected three times – in 1995, 1999, and 2003; in 2005, he backed out of the job to become a Member of Parliament. [...]
Sixteen now-independent Members of the Bulgarian Parliament have so far voiced their desire to create a new political formation. The news was announced Sunday for the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR, by independent MP, Dimitar Chukarski, formerly from the group of the conservative Order, Law and Justice party, RZS. Chukarski said the 16 are united by [...]
Evgeniya “Zheni” Zhivkova, a prominent Bulgarian designer, has revealed her ambitions to run as the leftist Bulgarian Socialist Party’s presidential candidate in the upcoming October elections. Zhivkova is the granddaughter of the communist head of state Todor Zhivkov, who was in power from 1971 until 1989. She was also an MP from 2001 until 2009. [...]
Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has rejected allegations that donations received by the institution have strings attached, at the same time remaining elusive about whether the Ministry would return them. According to Tsvetanov, no persons have enjoyed protections or privileged status on the part of Bulgaria’s law enforcement system provided that sufficient evidence has been [...]
The newly-elected head of the Sofia City Court, judge Vladimira Yanova, has declared that she will not resign, and will not even withdraw from a trial over which she is claimed to be involved in conflict of interest. The new Sofia City Court head is alleged to have failed to declare several properties and likely [...]
All donations received by the Interior Ministry will be stored on electronic or paper records for a period of five years, according to newly approved internal rules and regulations. The new document, prepared by a working group of the Interior Ministry, sets out the procedure for signing donation contracts, for keeping records in the donation [...]
Bulgaria’s former foreign minister and current member of the European Parliament, Nadezhda Neynski, formerly Mihaylova, has confirmed plans to join the race for president in the autumn. “I believe I am fit to run for the presidential office, which is the reason why I have agreed that my party debates my nomination,” Neynski told the [...]
Some 63% of Bulgarians are pessimists about their country’s future, according to a poll conducted by Gallup International in April 2011. After March became the first month in which over 60% of the surveyed by Gallup were pessimistic about their country’s development since the current ruling centrist-right GERB party took over in 2009, April’s poll [...]
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