Betina Zhoteva has been appointed as Chairperson of the Council for Electronic Media (CEC). Four members of CEC voted in favor and one abstained.
The Council for Electronic Media also decided to send a letter to the European Commission in connection with the reduced funding of the public-service media. The media regulator will once again raise the issue of the need for reform in the financing of the public media.
In an interview for the BNR, Bulgaria’s outgoing Deputy Premier Tomislav Donchev promised to explain the government’s motifs to cut the budget of the Bulgarian National Radio by nearly EUR 500,000.
In an interview for the BNR, journalist Svetla Petrova who is a member of the BNR’s Public Council stated that these latest cuts in the national radio’s budget are “a form of reprisal against the BNR because it is acting as an independent media outlet serving the public interest instead of the interests of corporate circles and the people currently in power.”
On Friday, the lowest temperatures will be between 4°C and 9°C, reaching up to 12°C in the southeast, around 6°C in Sofia . During the next 24 hours, the weather will remain cloudy. It will rain in almost the entire country. During the day, rainfall..
The Varna District Court has released the city’s mayor, Blagomir Kotsev, on a financial bond of €102,258. Before the court’s decision was announced, supporters of the mayor and members of the We Continue the Change party gathered outside the..
Three people, including an Italian citizen, were arrested during last night's protest against the adoption of the 2026 budget in front of the National Assembly, the director of the Sofia Directorate of Internal Affairs, Chief Commissioner Lyubomir..
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