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Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev conjured up new controversy around himself by alleging on April 21 that there were “many disturbing facts” about the construction of the fence […]
Bulgaria head of state President Roumen Radev will begin on April 24 a succession of meetings with the five parliamentary groups ahead of handing a mandate to the largest, Boiko […]
Bulgaria’s former head of state, Rossen Plevneliev, has for the second time this month sharply criticised his successor, incumbent President Roumen Radev, over what Plevneliev said that were the first […]
Attending the April 19 first sitting of Bulgaria’s new National Assembly, President Roumen Radev said that he intended next week handing over a mandate to Boiko Borissov’s GERB party to […]
Bulgaria’s 44th National Assembly, elected on March 26, held its first sitting on April 19, electing a Speaker and with the leaders of the five parliamentary groups setting out their […]
Having found himself at the centre of the controversy after the publication, last week, of proposed amendments on curtailing the rights of Bulgarian citizens abroad to vote, Bulgarian President Roumen […]
Bulgaria’s newly-elected 44th National Assembly will hold its first sitting on April 19 2017, as decreed by head of state President Roumen Radev, it was announced on April 7. The […]
The blame game is continuing in a controversy about draft legislation posted on the Bulgarian Justice Ministry website that envisaged effectively refusing the franchise to citizens in presidential and parliamentary […]
Bulgaria’s President Roumen Radev has been in office as head of state since January 22. Of the 74 days since then, he has had to deal for all of five […]
The process of Bulgaria adopting a new ordinance on the integration of refugees, after the 2016 version was controversially scrapped by the caretaker cabinet at the insistence of President Roumen […]
