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Three people have been put forth as Bulgaria’s next prosecutor-general before the deadline for nominations expired, amid lingering doubts about the transparency of the election. Deputy prosecutor-general Galina Toneva and […]
European Union leaders made little progress Friday at a second day of talks on a new budget aimed at confronting the economic crisis facing the 27-nat ...
Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has accepted the resignation of Veneta Markovska, the Constitutional Court judge that never was, handing h ...
Bulgarians living outside the country will have the opportunity to cast ballots in the January 2013 referendum on the future of nuclear energy in Bulg ...
Bulgaria’s Parliament has approved the first reading of amendments that will open the way for the Dossier Commission to check managers of media for links to the country’s communist-era State […]
A cease-fire that halted eight days of deadly fighting between Israel and Hamas held firm on Thursday as thousands of flag-waving Gaza residents poured into the streets, while in Israel […]
A joint op-ed by Michael Spindelegger, Vice-Chancellor & Foreign Minister of the Republic of Austria, and Alison Bethel McKenzie, Executive Director, The International Press Institute (IPI) Well over 100 journalists have been [&hellip ...
The unedifying spectacle that Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB government has produced in the saga of Veneta Markovska, the Constitutional Court judge who never was, is only the latest of mishandlings by […]
At what may be officially if ironically termed a courtesy call on then-president Petar Stoyanov when Ivan Kostov was leaving office as Bulgaria’s prime minister, Stoyanov presented Kostov with a […]
Couples in Bulgarian cities and towns have booked weddings on December 12 2012, the last “triple date” for 100 years, while others – expressing either optimism or fatalism – will […]
