The Constitutional Court has rejected the claim by MPs from the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Vazrazhdane to declare unconstitutional the decision of the 48th National Assembly for holding negotiations on the construction of a new AP 1000 unit at Kozloduy NPP. The court session was attended by 10 constitutional judges, and the ruling was endorsed by 8 votes. Atanas Semov and Yanaki Stoilov attached a dissenting opinion.
On 12 January, the decision was approved in parliament by the MPs from GERB/SDS, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Democratic Bulgaria, Bulgarian Rise and one independent MP. The members of parliament from Vazrazhdane and the Bulgarian Socialist Party voted against, We Continue the Change abstained. According to the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Vazrazhdane, the decision runs counter to the principle of the separation of the executive from the legislature, and by designating the US technology, is in violation of the requirement for competition.
The newly elected Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil attended a reception at the US Embassy on the occasion of Independence Day, BGNES reported. The head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was invited by Ambassador Kenneth Merten to attend the..
Humanitarian aid provided by Bulgaria to the civilian population of Gaza was loaded in trucks that departed for the region on June 29, the Bulgarian Embassy in Jordan announced on Facebook. The shipment includes food, medicine, tents..
President Rumen Radev has held a working meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. In Athens, they discussed the urgent activation of work on strategic bilateral projects. At a briefing, Radev said that the liquefied..
“Five people from the parliamentary group are going to be “torn apart” during the voting for a cabinet but will, most probably, not give their..
The first joint operation of the newly formed Mine Counter Measures Task Group Black Sea involving Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania is to take place July..
The caretaker government has fulfilled its main task successfully – organizing fair and transparent elections for National Assembly and for European..
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