At the beginning of today's parliamentary sitting, Parliamentary Speaker Rosen Zhelyazkov congratulated Muslims in Bulgaria on the holiday of Ramadan Bayram.
Former Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov and ex-finance minister Assen Vassilev returned to parliament as MPs, Zhelyazkov said.
Atanas Slavov and Andrei Tsekov, who were justice and regional ministers, returned to the deputy banks.
The resignation of national ombudsman Diana Kovacheva was also announced. Kovacheva has been elected judge at the European Court of Human Rights. By law, the early termination of her powers is not subject to a vote.
The Parliament rejected the request of Vazrazhdane Party to hear the Director of Military Intelligence, Gen. Venelin Venev on journalistic investigations into interference in the work of the service by the co-chair of Democratic Bulgaria, MP Atanas Atanasov.
The truck traffic on the Maritsa highway to the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing at the Bulgarian-Turkish border is now normalized. "As of this morning, there are no more queues of trucks standing on the roadway waiting to cross the border," assured..
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, searches have been carried out in Sofia, Burgas, Petrich and Rila in connection with an investigation into alleged fraud with EU funds in the restoration of a church. In 2017, a public tender..
One million and eight hundred Bulgarian citizens travelled as tourists during the third quarter of the year, National Statistical Institute data show. 72.3% of them travelled inside the country, 20.8% travelled abroad and 6.9% - both inside Bulgaria..
According to an analysis by the Electricity System Operator, a shortage of electricity is expected as early as January and February next year. At a..
“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..
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