“We shall not support the Istanbul Convention in any form,” said Kornelia Ninova, chair of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP. A BSP position welcomes the European Parliament resolution on Bulgaria, in the section in which the government is..
With little interest shown by MEPs in the plenary hall of the EP, a discussion on the rule of law in Bulgaria took place at the backdrop of ongoing anti-government protests in this country. On October 1, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice..
The European Parliament is to discuss today, October 5, the ongoing anti-corruption protests in Bulgaria demanding the resignation of the Bulgarian government and prosecutor general Ivan Geshev, BNR's correspondent in Brussels Angelina Piskova reported...
“Because of the problems we have with rule of law the country could lose European funding,” said European People’s Party MEP Radan Kanev in an interview for bTV. In his words, European funding could be suspended in cases of abuse of power...
The European Parliament is putting systemic pressure on Bulgaria as a national state and against Christianity as a value system , Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Krassimir Karakachanov wrote on Facebook. He accused the European Parliament of trying..
Manipulation of the elections and redistribution of portions in power are behind the changes in the Electoral Code, said Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev after attending the festive liturgy on the occasion of Sofia Day . This is the reason why he..
The publicly circulated information that Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has been invited to the European Parliament for a debate on the rule of law in Bulgaria is categorically untrue. Neither the prime minister, nor any member of the cabinet..
Bulgaria's Deputy Chief Prosecutor Krassimira Filipova announced that the meeting of the Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group (DRFMG) at the European Parliament had been requested by Bulgaria's Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev..
Serious criticism was leveled at Bulgaria at a closed meeting of the monitoring group for the rule of law in the European Parliament, journalist Dimitar Stoyanov, who attended the forum, told BNR . According to Stoyanov, the criticism is of the ongoing..
The European Parliament has finally adopted the new rules for international freight transport in the EU. All proposals for changes in the Mobility package have been rejected. Drivers are not allowed to take their regular weekly rest period in the..
