Tomislav Donchev, the new minister in Bulgaria’s conservative government appointed to speed up the ability to use European Union funds, has set himself the ambitious goal to make his post redundant. “When Bulgaria manages to absorb two-thirds of the European funds, which can not be replaced by any other funding, my post will be useless. [...]
Shortly after 2 am Thursday morning and after 16 hours of debate the Bulgarian Parliament finally adopted the 2010 budget. Bulgaria Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov stated after the vote that “this is a good budget, the only one possible for 2010.” Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said that everyone wants a budget with more money, more [...]
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has stated that President Georgi Parvanov is planning to set up his own political party. The center-right GERB party leader and Prime Minister Borisov, speaking in Smolyan, said that it is obvious that Parvanov will be working on his new political project over the next two years. “Only the Bulgarian Socialist [...]
The Anti-Corruption Committee of the Bulgarian Parliament has concluded that Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, Traicho Traikov, is not involved in a conflict of interests. “The signal about me submitted by the Spokesperson of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, Korneliya Ninova, was fake, deceiving, and wasted the time of us all,” Traikov himself stated after [...]
The Bulgarian conservative party “Order, Law, Justice” (RZS) is launching a campaign to demand a new Constitution. The campaign, which is entitled “65 Years Are Enough. We Want a Grand National Assembly, a New Constitution, a New State”, starts on November 8, 2009. “Bulgaria must do away once and for all with the post-communist mafia [...]
Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister, MP Sergey Stanishev, is ready to ask Parliament to strip him off his immunity over the controversy with an allegedly missing top secret intelligence report. Prime Minister Borisov has accused Stanishev of concealing a report of the State National Security Agency DANS in October 2008, and warning the state officials that [...]
Bulgaria President Georgi Parvanov has called for change in the functioning of his Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and in Bulgarian political parties in general. Parvanov, speaking in Pernik, said; “For me it is very important to define clearly the changes in the BSP.” This follows the re-election Sunday of former PM Sergey Stanishev as the [...]
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