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.
Acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov submitted a proposal to the National Assembly to strip the immunity from four MPs from "Vazrazhdane" due to acts of vandalism during the protest in front of the European Commission building in Sofia. These..
At the initiative of the European Union of Patient Organizations for the Fight against Rare Diseases, on the last day of February, we focus on people living with a rare disease. Awareness campaigns are organized to raise public awareness of this issue...
Friday will be mostly cloudy. Fog will cover the lowlands before midday. It will rain in some places, especially in southern Bulgaria. Minimum temperatures will be between 0 and 5°C, 2°C in Sofia, and maximum between 6 and 11°C, up to 17°C in the..
Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev today received at the Foreign Ministry Susan Falatko, who arrived in Sofia a few days ago as Charge d'Affaires of the U.S...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised Bulgarian citizens to avoid traveling to Greece because of a planned national strike today. The Foreign Ministry..
The number of pensioners in January this year increased by 15,630 people, or 0.8%, compared to the first month of the previous year, the National Social..
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