The National Assembly Committee on Legal Affairs adopted at first reading amendments to the Judiciary System Act. They provide for the closure of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office and the Specialized Court.
The MPs from the Bulgarian Socialist Party, “There is Such a People” party, the coalition “Stand up BG! We are Coming” and “Democratic Bulgaria” coalition voted in favor. According to the President of the National Assembly Iva Miteva, the amendments to the Judiciary Act are likely to be voted at first reading at the plenary hall on Wednesday during the last sitting of the 46th National Assembly.
Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova will travel to Brussels to provide an update on Bulgaria’s progress towards euro area accession. The Finance Ministry has confirmed that Minister Petkova will participate in the Eurogroup meeting on 17..
Minimum temperatures on Monday will be between minus 4 and 1°C. In Sofia it will be around minus 3°C. The mercury will hover between -3 and 0 °C in the north. Maximum temperatures in southern Bulgaria will be between 2 and 7°C. In the capital it will..
The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It was organised by the movement "For a Free Russia" - an association of Russian immigrants in..
Kristiyan Vladov and Stefan Kyurkchiev of the Plovdiv Museum of Natural History are working on a project to bring live fish from the southern Arctic..
Bulgaria’s Premier Rosen Zhelyazkov convened an emergency meeting at the Council of Ministers on Saturday dedicated to the issue of food prices...
Bulgaria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georg Georgiev, participated in a working breakfast dedicated to addressing illegal migration and its..
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