Bulgaria begins ritual steps towards caretaker cabinet on road to early elections
A few hours after Bulgaria’s National Assembly accepted the resignation of the cabinet, head of state President Rossen Plevneliev initiated
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Boiko Borissov
The ‘Oresharski’ cabinet’s disputed legacy
The resignation of the Bulgarian cabinet sees a predictable deep dispute among rival political camps about its legacy. The subject
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Bulgarian National Assembly Speaker Mikov: This parliament is finished
The National Assembly will vote on the resignation of the government on July 23 if it has been tabled by
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Oresharski: Bulgaria to support Georgieva nomination as next EU foreign policy chief
Plamen Oresharski, occupant of the prime minister’s chair in the Bulgarian Socialist Party cabinet, said on July 16 that Bulgaria
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Will Bulgaria bet against the house in the European Commission stakes?
In the hours ahead of the July 16 meeting of European Union leaders to discuss top posts in the new
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Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank scandal: Political reactions
Following the announcement of central Bulgarian National Bank’s decision to withdraw the licence of Corporate Commercial Bank while authorities began
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Borissov repeats demand for GERB to nominate Bulgaria’s European Commissioner
Bulgarian opposition centre-right GERB party leader Boiko Borissov has repeated his insistence that his party should nominate the country’s European
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Bid for talks on tasks of Bulgaria’s outgoing parliament faces opposition boycott
As it heads into its final few weeks, a question marks hangs over what if anything Bulgaria’s National Assembly will
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Bulgarian opposition leader Borissov: Stanishev to be nominated as European immigration commissioner
Those in power intend nominating Sergei Stanishev, the Bulgarian Socialist Party leader who has quit the National Assembly to take
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