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Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on April 24 that it has opened a pre-trial investigation into suspected mismanagement by members of the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC). The prosecution’s statement [&helli ...
The average price of 1000 square metres of agricultural land in Bulgaria in 2016 was 761 leva (about 389 euro), the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on April 24. This […]
Bulgaria’s former president Rossen Plevneliev says that four countries are trying “in one way or another” to influence the political process in Bulgaria – Russia, Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia. Plevneliev, […]
The structure of the forthcoming Boiko Borissov coalition government is ready, and will include four deputy prime ministers and 17 ministers, according to Krassimir Karakachanov, co-leader of the nationalist United […]
Plovdiv businessman and Bulgarian Socialist Party strongman in that city, Georgi Gergov, resigned from the BSP leadership body at a special national council meeting on April 22, following pressure for […]
Ninety-nine per cent of those granted Bulgarian citizenship in 2015 were from non-EU countries, the bloc’s statistics agency Eurostat said in a new report. That year, a total of 1275 […]
Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev conjured up new controversy around himself by alleging on April 21 that there were “many disturbing facts” about the construction of the fence […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has labelled as a “repeat of the Chernobyl syndrome” reports of information being concealed from people about elevated levels of natural uranium and alpha particles in […]
Bulgaria head of state President Roumen Radev will begin on April 24 a succession of meetings with the five parliamentary groups ahead of handing a mandate to the largest, Boiko […]
Bulgaria’s former head of state, Rossen Plevneliev, has for the second time this month sharply criticised his successor, incumbent President Roumen Radev, over what Plevneliev said that were the first […]
