The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered in force last May with the purpose of stopping the abuse with the citizens’ private data by business. GDPR is one of the big achievements of the Juncker…
Bulgarian MEP Nikolay Barekov (ECR) has many assistants, but most of them would find it hard to justify what exactly they are doing in support of his very modest activities. Fake job contracts have been exposed…
The ‘Democratic Bulgaria’ Coalition is the fifth and possibly the last political formation in Bulgaria with a chance to enter the European Parliament in the upcoming elections. This coalition is made up of three parties…
Millennium Club Bulgaria, a think tank of Bulgarians born after the 1st of January 1981 who studied (or are still studying) abroad, hosted on Monday (14 January) a talk show in Sofia about the future of…
Anti-Roma sentiments were exacerbated at government level in Bulgaria during the last week, with very few voices denouncing the creeping racism. Georgi Gotev has the story. On 6 January two Roma badly beat a 33-old…
“Bulgaria does not need early elections”. This is what the honorary chairman and founder of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) Ahmed Dogan told his party colleagues during his traditional speech on his birthday…
Truck haulers organised today (10 January) the first large-scale protest in Brussels against changes in European regulations known as the Mobility Package, claiming that it will hurt the Bulgarian economy. Bulgarian MEPs from the different…
The Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office, during the term of the incumbent Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov, has become an actor on the political stage by itself. Krassen Nikolov has the story. When elections start approaching in Bulgaria…
One of the leading questions hanging in the balance of the European elections in Bulgaria, aside from the future of the current government, is how the nationalist and far-right parties will settle their differences. The…
Vote-buying continues to be a serious problem in Bulgaria. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe have recognised it on multiple occasions. International organizations criticised Bulgarian authorities even after the…
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