“GERB will approach the formation of a government with a high sense of responsibility for the sake of the voters who supported the party,” stated PM Boyko Borissov at the last government meeting before the new parliament is sworn in.
“Everyone should take a responsible approach,” Boyko Borissov stated and added that “there is a constitutional way to proceed”.
PM Borissov added that he was not afraid of a caretaker cabinet. “The people who are asking this question are themselves afraid of democracy because the main task of a caretaker government is to organize fair elections,” he said. Boyko Borissov stated further that international observers had assessed the 4 April parliamentary elections of having been fair and transparent.
''I am not surprised that the president’s veto concerning the sale of Lukoil’s assets was overturned, because even on such a delicate, serious and worrying issue, there were no arguments or discussion'', Vice President Iliana Iotova told journalists..
Birth rate in Bulgaria has decreased by 33% over the past three decades. In 1994, 79,442 live births were registered in the country, while in 2024 the number dropped to 53,428. 6.5% of Bulgarian children are now born through in vitro fertilization..
The majority in parliament overcame the president's veto on the Investment Promotion Act. The bill was passed in second reading on October 24, but President Rumen Radev vetoed parts of it, arguing that the proposed rules specifically..
The European Commission has presented a proposal for developing high-speed railway lines within the EU until 2040, linking the capitals in the EU, among..
The European Commission has decided to withhold EUR 215 million from the second payment under Bulgaria’s recovery and resilience plan, the EC told the..
With 111 votes for, 51 against and 43 abstained, the National Assembly approved the establishment of an ad-hoc committee to investigate the activities..
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