I will make a forecast at the end of 2017 that the new anti-corruption law will not work, Bulgaria’s Vice President Iliana Iotova said in an interview for Horizont channel of the Bulgarian National Radio on Saturday. The law will be blocked in the very beginning. However, it will not be blocked by the forthcoming no-confidence vote at the National Assembly, which is in fact a normal Parliamentary procedure, but because there are some texts in this legislation which will make the institutions block each other’s functions. Unlike the good practices in Europe, the anonymity of signals is not guaranteed in the Bulgarian bill. In Vice President Iotova’s view, “the new act was adopted so that we can say: Look we have a new anti-corruption law in the beginning of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union”.
President Rumen Radev continues consultations with parliamentary groups for the formation of a new government, after meeting with GERB-SDS and PP-DB today . However, a meeting with DPS - A New Beginning led by Delyan Peevski is not scheduled. This..
At a meeting with caretaker Premier Dimitar Glavchev, National Assembly Speaker Natalia Kiselova reaffirmed her intention that the state budget for 2025 be adopted as soon as possible. Before that, however, the parliamentary committees are to..
The formation of a majority is a pretty challenging task in a highly fragmented parliament. I am glad that parliament is starting its work in substance, said President Rumen Radev at the beginning of his meeting with representatives of GERB/SDS at..
It is too early to predict how the events in Syria would affect the war in Ukraine. This is what EU Defense Commissioner Andrius..
Hundreds of miners protested outside the Council of Ministers while an extraordinary meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation was..
"I am addressing a question to the Prime Minister regarding information that on November 26 this year, a group of Bulgarian citizens was on trial in..
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