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The leader of Bulgarian ultra-nationalist party Ataka, Volen Siderov, was elected on June 19 chairperson of Parliament’s committee on the fight against corruption, conflict of interest and parliamentary ethics. Also […]
The protests against the appointment of Delyan Peevski as director of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) had wide public support, but the d ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski asked – and received – on June 19 Parliament’s support for a vague package of measures meant to keep ...
Bulgarian granted refugee or subsidiary protection status to 195 asylum seekers in 2012, according to numbers published by European Union’s statisti ...
Traffic police in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia said on June 19 that 28 fines were issued during “Operation Cyclist” on June 10-17 and vowed that checks would continue for the […]
Bulgaria’s Economy and Energy Minister Dragomir Stoynev has fired Mihail Andonov, the executive director of Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH), the umbrella corporation for most of the state-owned assets in the […]
Nine people were detained on June 18 during the anti-government protest in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia. Some of them carried knives and other objects banned at mass gatherings, the Interior […]
The U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights has strongly criticized Turkey’s crackdown on anti-government protests, joining the European Union in condemning the police response. But Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has […]
Bulgarian Parliament voted on June 19 to repeal its decision to appoint Delyan Peevski as director of the State Agency for National Security (SANS). The two parties in the ruling […]
