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Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has appointed Ilian Alipiev, formerly a member of the country’s communist-era secret service State Security’s counterintelligence division, as his adviser on security and defence. The March [&hel ...
Bulgaria’s caretaker Cabinet said on March 1 2017 that it was nominating land forces commander Andrei Botsev to be the country’s new Defence Chief, with a promotion to lieutenant-general. By […]
The trial in Sofia City Court of Bulgaria’s former defence minister Nikolai Nenchev on charges of malfeasance in office over a deal to overhaul MiG-29 fighter jet engines got underway […]
In a late-night post on Facebook, Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev has stepped into a domestic pre-election political row about Nato and its presence in the Black Sea. […]
There is no way for Bulgaria to effectively protect Europe’s external borders unless it is given access to the Schengen Information System – and the country’s lack of access to […]
Legal certainty is one of the most important preconditions for investment – also for further investments from Germany, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev was told by his German counterpart Joachim Gauck […]
At an informal meeting in Malta on February 3, European Union leaders agreed on a plan involving working with Libya to counter irregular migration across the Mediterranean to Europe. The […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev’s veto of the Concessions Act amendments will most likely lead to the European Commission penalising Bulgaria, according to Emil Radev, an MEP for Boiko Borissov’s centre-right […]
Leaders of the European Union are meeting in Malta on February 3 in their first informal gathering of the year, with a key topic being stemming the flow of irregular […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on February 2 that he was vetoing the recently amended Concessions Act, arguing that some of its provisions undermined the rule of law and local […]
