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Boiko Borissov, who resigned along with his government last week, was admitted to the government hospital in the Sofia residential area of Lozenets on February 26 2013 because of high […]
Bulgaria’s two largest opposition parties, the socialists and the predominantly ethnic Turk Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), have rejected the challenge of acting Prime Minister Boiko Borissov to form […]
Moments after formally turning down the offer to form a government anew, Boiko Borissov challenged the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party and Movement for Rights and Freedoms to accept a mandate […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov praised former finance minister Simeon Dyankov for keeping sound fiscal discipline and keeping Bulgaria’s government spending in check, but said that a series of Dyankov’s […]
An evening meeting in Skopje between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski on February 16 2013 produced upbeat messages on bilateral relations, notably towards a […]
If there was any doubt that Bulgaria’s referendum on the future development of nuclear energy was a proxy war between Bulgaria’s two biggest parties, the last week of “campaigning” ahead […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov did not confirm, on November 13, reports in Bulgarian language media that he would attend the South Stream groundbreaking ceremony next month; meanwhile, talks on […]
The farce into which Bulgaria’s planned national referendum on whether to proceed with the Belene nuclear power station has rapidly descended is an illustration of just how radioactive the issue […]
Vladimir Putin raised quite a few eyebrows when his last foreign visit as president of Russia in 2008 was to Bulgaria, when he sealed agreements for three major energy projects […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and MPs from ruling party GERB met on June 15 with representatives of conservation groups to discuss the latest amendments to the Forestry Act, which […]
