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Bulgarian capital city Sofia was set for a day of drama on November 20, with plans for sundry protests and national political events. The “Early Rising Students”, the anti-government university […]
A further attempt has been made to backtrack on Plamen Oresharski’s controversial statement that people on the public payroll who take part in anti-government protests will be dismissed. The November […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev and Plamen Oresharski, appointed in May to sit in the prime minister’s chair in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government, issued a joint statement on November 12 […]
Public trust in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government has fallen to a new low, below the “critical” 20 per cent level, according to the results of a new poll by […]
Gazprom chief executive Alexey Miller and Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski launched the construction on the South Stream gas pipeline in Bulgarian on October 31 – if only from afar, […]
Media reports that the Bulgarian Socialist Party government is planning to cut state administration staff numbers in 2014 were followed by mixed signals from cabinet ministers. On October 12, public […]
Boiko Borissov, leader of centre-right opposition party GERB and former prime minister, has attacked the “Oresharski Plan” as set to mean 250 000 new unemployed in Bulgaria. The “Oresharski Plan” […]
Rather like the fine lady in the nursery rhyme, who has rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, and shall have music wherever she goes, it seems that […]
The second attempt at holding the debate in Parliament on opposition party GERB’s motion of no confidence in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government resulted in further controversy amid disputes over […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev and Plamen Oresharski, prime minister in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government, released a joint position on the Syria crisis on September 18 2013, a significant development […]
