MPs will interrupt their summer vacation in order to adopt changes to the Criminal Code and the Domestic Violence Protection Act.
On August 3, the legal committee will hold an extraordinary meeting, while an extraordinary plenary meeting will be held on August 7, BNR has learned. The occasion was the brutal attack on an 18-year-old girl by her boyfriend in Stara Zagora, which sparked protests across the country. The girl suffered multiple cuts all over her body inflicted in a particularly painful manner.
The parliamentary groups of MRF, GERB-SDS and PP-DB have introduced two joint bills, which provide for increasing the punishment for causing light and medium bodily harm, as well as for violence in an intimate relationship to be regarded as domestic violence, the press center of the MRF has reported.
A Eurobarometer survey has registered the highest level of trust in the European Union since 2007 and the highest level of support ever for the common currency, the euro, both in the EU as a whole (74%) and in the euro area (81%). In Bulgaria,..
Despite the bad weather, dozens of children and their parents took part in an initiative for making toys for the Christmas decoration of the capital city. At the initiative of Sofia municipality, a workshop was put up in the square in front of..
The Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) are to nominate the party’s leader Atanas Atanasov for president of the 51 st National Assembly. According to BNR sources, the decision was made by the party’s national leadership and will be put to..
The financial effect of our country's accession to Schengen by land will amount to BGN 1.63 billion (EUR 833.4 million) per year, according to a study..
The Ministry of Transport and Communications supports the idea of naming Sofia Airport after Vasil Levski– the most undisputed figure in Bulgarian..
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, observed on December 1, volunteers from the Bulgarian Red Cross Youth in Sofia will light tealights on the Lovers'..
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