No agreement was reached on the proposal to invite the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky for a video address on the first day of the 48th National Assembly, Ekaterina Zaharieva of GERB-SDS said after consultations of the parliamentary forces, which did not include BSP, "Bulgarian Rise" and "Vazrazhdane". "Democratic Bulgaria" and "We Continue the Change" were against this happening at the very opening of the parliament.
For a third day in a row, the new Bulgarian MPs discussed who should be guest at the solemn meeting for the opening of the parliament. After heated discussions on October 11 and 13, they decided not to invite the Russian ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova and the interim head of the Belarusian embassy in Bulgaria Nikita Leshukov to the event. Later, GERB-SDS proposed to discuss the possibility of inviting the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to make a video address at the first parliamentary session.
The Council of Ministers has approved the draft of a donation agreement between the World Health Organization and Bulgaria on the provision of a voluntary contribution, amounting to EUR 100,000, in support of the activities of the organization in the..
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“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she..
The Constitutional Court has opened a case following the request by President Rumen Radev for the amendments to the Constitution, endorsed by the 49 th..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would..
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