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Thousands of Bulgarians took part in a September 25 protest march in Sofia, the third in succession, against the sole nominee to be the country’s next Prosecutor-General, Ivan Geshev. The […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov expressed support on May 17 for Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov’s request to the State Agency for Nat ...
Bulgaria’s Parliament passed on December 20 at second reading amendments to the country’s anti-corruption legislation that will allow cour ...
The European Commission published on November 19 a call for applications for the position of European Chief Prosecutor at the European Public Prosecut ...
Bulgaria’s hopes of exiting European Commission monitoring under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) next year were given a boost on November 13, when the EC’s latest report noted a […]
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court swore in four new judges on November 13, with Pavlina Panova, Nadezhda Djelepova, Krassimir Vlahov and Atanas Semov taking their seats in a ceremony attended by Bulgarian […]
The joint assembly of Bulgaria’s two high courts elected two new Constitutional Court judges on October 26, followed several hours later by President Roumen Radev making his own appointment to […]
Krassimir Vlahov, the former deputy head of Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation, was elected by Parliament on October 5 to take a seat on the country’s Constitutional Court, but the […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev asked the Constitutional Court to strike down a set of amendments to the country’s Administrative Procedure Code, arguing that they ran contrary to the country’s constitution […]
The European Commission has approved 1.5 million euro in funding for projects focused on reforms in the area of insolvency, with accompanying measures to reinforce the judicial infrastructure and the […]
