Cabinet being asked to transfer 3M leva more for ‘Bulgarian Louvre’ project
Bulgaria’s cabinet is to be asked to add three million leva to the budget for the controversial “Bulgarian Louvre” project
Read more
Bulgaria
Domestic politics, stories of relevance to expatriates, organised crime and corruption, judiciary, foreign policy and popular topics such as archaeology and weather
Bulgarian President says he will veto Electoral Code
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on February 26 that he would veto parts of the new Electoral Code, approved by
Read more
Sofia City Court jails man for three and a half years for threatening to kill Ahmed Dogan
Sofia City Court has sentenced Oktai Enimehmedov, the man seen pointing a gas pistol at the head of Ahmed Dogan
Read more
Prosecutor-General orders tax investigation of Peevski, Vassilev and Barekov
The National Revenue Agency is to conduct full tax audits of Delyan Peevski, Tsvetan Vassilev and Nikolai Barekov in response
Read more
Bulgarian MPs overturn presidential veto on amendments to drugs law
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on February 26 to overturn the presidential veto on a bill of amendments to the drugs law
Read more
Bulgarian Parliament rejects proposal for probe into spending on fence at Turkish border
Bulgaria’s National Assembly rejected a proposal by centre-right opposition party GERB to set up a special committee to investigate spending
Read more
Protest Network hands dossier on Peevski, Barekov and Vassilev to Prosecutor-General’s office
Bulgaria’s anti-government Protest Network have lodged at the Prosecutor-General’s a 17-page dossier on Delyan Peevski, Nikolai Barekov and Tsvetan Vassilev,
Read more
Amid Ukraine’s revolution, Bulgarian foreign ministry seizes on language law changes
The evening after a weekend that saw rapid changes sweep Viktor Yanukovych swept from power in Ukraine, Bulgaria’s foreign ministry
Read more
Second Bulgarian MP goes to BWC party
A second member of Parliament, formerly of Boiko Borissov’s opposition centre-right GERB party, is to join the “Bulgaria Without Censorship”
Read more