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Ivo Antonov, the Bulgarian Defence Ministry official whose appearance in a photograph showing him giving a Nazi salute compounded the controversy around the nationalist United Patriots’ involvement in Boiko Borissov’s […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has become the latest to react to the controversy of the past few days about photographs of government officials giving Hitler salutes, by saying that it […]
Bulgarian Defence Minister and nationalist United Patriots co-leader Krassimir Karakachanov said on May 19 that no decision had been taken on firing a ministry official photographed giving a Nazi salute, […]
Bulgaria’s National Assembly is hardly ever a place free of acrimonious exchanges, but May 2017 is seeing ever more bitter skirmishes as the opposition goes on the attack, challenging the […]
Two Bulgarian Jewish organisations jointly have strongly condemned the statements and inappropriate comments by Valeri Simeonov, deputy prime minister and leader of the nationalist United Patriots, amid the controversy over […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, who accepted the resignation of a deputy minister who became notorious for a photograph of him making a Hitler salute at a wax museum in […]
Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Regional Development Pavel Tenev resigned on May 17, two days after his appointment, after a furore broke out when a photograph emerged of him giving a […]
The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party has expressed outrage that recently-appointed deputy minister of public works Pavel Tenev, a nominee of the nationalist United Patriots coalition government minority partner, remains in […]
Valeri Simeonov, one of two deputy prime ministers from the nationalist United Patriots in Boiko Borissov’s coalition government, has pledged a crackdown on illegal stalls, hotel tax-dodging schemes and other […]
Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, voted Boiko Borissov’s GERB-United Patriots coalition government into office on May 4 2017. The vote to make Borissov Prime Minister was 133 in favour, […]
