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Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on August 8 that he was vetoing recently-passed amendments to the Environmental Protection Act meant to speed up the process of issuing permits. The amended […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has cited the handling of the fighter jet acquisition process as an example of how not to send the right signal to th ...
Bulgaria’s Defence Chief General Andrei Botsev has rejected allegations of external interference and corruption in the process towards choosing ...
The prolonged political tussle in Bulgaria about the fighter jet acquisition process continued on July 10 with President Roumen Radev accusing the gov ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on July 7 that his sole requirement in the process of acquiring jet fighters for the Air Force is that they should be new. […]
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law with exposing people in public life who worked for the country’s communist-era secret services, has announced that two of President Roumen Radev’s […]
Bulgaria’s President and former Air Force commander Roumen Radev said on July 4 that former defence minister Nikolai Nenchev had “crashed” in concluding a contract with Poland for the overhaul […]
Against a background of recent tensions between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party and President Roumen Radev, the heads of government and state sat down on July 3 for […]
Claims by Bulgarian former defence minister Boiko Noev in a June 28 television interview, including that there was scant demand for Gripens and that the fighter jet was going out […]
Less than a week after visiting Greece, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev’s diplomatic forays took him to the country’s other European Union neighbour when he embarked on a two-day trip to […]
