Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, wished success to the two major parties in the now former right-wing Blue Coalition, after news reports about the latter’s breakup. “Both the Union of Democratic Forces, UDF, and Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, DSB, are our political partners in the European right wing and in the European People’s Party, EPP, and I wish them success,” Borisov told the media Tuesday. [...]
May 15, 2012 | Posted in
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All candidates for elective offices in Bulgaria should undergo an obligatorypsychological assessment, Krasimir Velchev, a key MP with ruling centrist-rightGERB, has proposed. The new measure should include Presidential runners, candidates for Mayors andcandidates for municipal council members, Velchev has told the 24 Chasa daily. He has pointed out that the psychological evaluation of wanna-be elective officials is his own idea and not [...]
May 11, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgaria’s ruling center-right GERB party plans to be in government well ahead in the future, and cabinet plans extend beyond the end of the mandate in 2013, said Bulgarian Minister of Finance Simeon Djankov Saturday. “We plan to be in power for a long time. That is why we are considering the effects of our policies well beyond our [...]
May 6, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has stated he is “amused” by the battle between Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Sergey Stanishev and his opponent, Georgi Parvanov. Stanishev has a certain advantage in the media, Borisov reckons. “I see that almost everyone is now referring to the former President as “Gotse,”” the Prime Minister observed, referring to Parvanov’s alias from the time he [...]
April 21, 2012 | Posted in
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The planned no-confidence vote against Bulgaria’s ruling centrist-right GERB will not take place, according to Parliamentary Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva. The no-confidence motion was submitted by Ataka and left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) on April 6 over what the two parties perceive as GERB‘s failed energy policy. At the end of March, the GERB government decided to scrap theBelene Nuclear Power Plant, a project backed by [...]
April 21, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, ended fifth Saturday in the traditional diplomatic ski race in the winter resort of Bansko, organized by the Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministry. Plevneliev arrived in Bansko as early as Friday to try the tracks and practice. He voice the ambition to win the cup, but ranked at the fifth spot, after [...]
March 10, 2012 | Posted in
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Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Deputy Chair of center-right ruling party GERB, who is in Brussels for a Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting, has met with Wilfred Martens, President of the European People’s Party. Tsvetanov thanked Martens, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament Joseph Daul, and Secretary General [...]
March 10, 2012 | Posted in
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Bulgaria’s Council of Ministers is set to present the controversial ACTA agreement to the country’s Parliament, only to see it scrapped by the MPs. The ruling centrist-right GERB already suspended the ratification of ACTA in the national Parliament and instructed all its MEPs to vote against the international agreement. However, oppositional Bulgarian Socialist Party MP [...]
March 10, 2012 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has termed his order for the repayment of bonuses received by government officials as “populist”, citing the low salaries and the huge responsibilities of public office holders. “Bulgaria has been plagued by rampant populism as regards bonus payments. We keep thinking like a post-communist country, or even as communists. I am [...]
March 8, 2012 | Posted in
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By the start of 2013 Bulgaria will have spent its entire fiscal reserve due to the policies of center-right GERB cabinet, argued former Bulgarian Minister of Finance Plamen Oresharski. In an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio Sunday, Oresharski was critical of his successor Simeon Djankov‘s approach of spending from the reserve and failure to [...]
March 8, 2012 | Posted in
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