By Georgi Gotev This great project, #Gimme5EU, ends for me today (1 October). It was about the European elections, with an angle on Bulgaria. Yesterday’s successful audition of Mariya Gabriel ends the cycle. It was…
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“EP applauds Mariya Gabriel – she is perfectly fit”, “Mariya Gabriel’s performance was comprehensive and thorough”, “Maria Gabriel performed perfectly well at her hearing” – these are some of the titles of the Bulgarian press…
By Krassen Nikolov Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki (the nationalist VMRO party, affiliated to the European Conservatives and Reformists Group ECR) stated that the European Commission should not allow Volkswagen to invest in Turkey. He also…
By Georgi Gotev Two events took place simultaneously on Tuesday (10 September) inside and outside the European Parliament in Brussels. The first was the inauguration of an exhibition marking the 140th anniversary of the Bulgarian…
By Georgi Gotev Several days ago Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said the new portfolio of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel will have a budget three times larger than her previous one. Gabriel was one of the…
By Georgi Gotev There are strong indications that Bulgaria’s Mariya Gabriel will get the Education, Youth, Sport and Culture portfolio, previously held by the most invisible of all commissioners – Hungary’s Tibor Navracsics. The first…
By Krassen Nikolov Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki (from the nationalist VMRO party, sitting with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group) defended on Saturday (31 August) the return of the death penalty. Thus he opened for…
By Krassen NIkolov European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen unexpectedly visited Bulgaria last week. She discussed the future portfolio of Bulgarian Commissioner Mariya Gabriel with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. Sofia insists that the Bulgarian…
It has been a busy political season, and all of a sudden, as it usually it is the cases by end July, nothing happens, because the politicians and EU institutions are on holidays. The three…
By Krassen Nikolov Can someone blame people for abstentionism, when politicians haven’t been able to win the citizens’ trust? The turnout of the European elections in Bulgaria was record low. Only 1/3 of the Bulgarians…
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