Leading figures from Bulgaria’s Borisov government as a whole continue to enjoy high public approval, a recent public opinion poll shows. According to the a survey of the National Center for Studying Public Opinion conducted in May 15-25, 2010, across the country, a total of 64.7% of the Bulgarians approve of the work of Prime [...]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has reacted strongly to criticism by declaring his readiness to lead his party GERB to all-out elections. Borisov was angered by comments made by the country’s major trade unions and his allies from the Blue Coalition, as well as by a newly emerging conflict between the government and the Socialist [...]
Bulgarian prime minister is mentioned in one in every three media releases, followed by the finance minister and the president, who also shine in the media spotlight, a survey shows. A media analysis of seven national daily newspapers, launched by the Laboratory for Media Monitoring of the Media Democracy Foundation, has shown that Prime Minister Borisov [...]
wer Fearful of a replay of what has happened in Greece over the past year, the prestigious German newspaper Zuddeutsche Zeitung has called Bulgaria, suffering from new budget woes, the new “euro-fraudster”. “The nightmare is right next-door,” Zuddeutsche Zeitung wrote in an article about Bulgaria’s decision to delay plans to adopt the euro after it [...]
Bulgaria’s planned application to join ERM II, the exchange-rate mechanism that aspiring euro-zone members must join before adopting the common currency, was “not yet off the table” although chances “now are a lot dimmer,” the finance minister has said. Speaking in an interview for Wall Street Journal, Minister Simeon Djankov said about a third of [...]
The European Commission has not been informed about the sharp revision upwards in Bulgaria’s 2009 budget deficit caused by unaccounted procurement deals, a spokesman said. Last week Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov said the previous Socialist-led government had kept them in the dark over BGN 2.16 B contracts, which pushed [...]
Bulgaria will decide how long it will have to keep on hold plans to join the eurozone after the meeting of EU finance ministers later this week, which will consider and assess the country’s convergence program. “Bulgaria will apply for ERM II, there is no doubt about that. The timing will be decided after we [...]
Bulgarian journalist, Atanas Chobanov, is trying to raise funds through Facebook for an expedition to Uzbekistan. Chobanov, who lives in France, says the goal of the trip is to establish if Bulgaria’s President, Georgi Parvanov, had killed a protected animal while on an official visit to Uzbekistan. Chobanov appeals to people to join the campaign [...]
Bulgaria’s ruling center-right GERB party is expected to table to the parliament on Friday a sign up with MP signatures and motives for the impeachment of Socialist President, Georgi Parvanov. The conflict between Djankov and Parvanov flared up after the appearance of the Finance Minister in the talk show of the TV channel Nova Televizia, [...]
Interview with Toby Iles, analyst for Central & Eastern Europe at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) After gaining a first class undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, Toby Iles undertook further study at the University of Cambridge and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Subsequent to this he joined the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in [...]
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