By Krassen Nikolov It may sounds absurd, but the name of the Romanian magistrate Laura Codruța Kövesi was involved in the campaign of the sole candidate for Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev, who is now…
By Georgi Gotev Hackers have stolen millions of taxpayers’ financial data from the National Tax Agency (NAP) in an attack that aid may have compromised nearly every adult’s personal records. The breach of servers at…
By Krassen Nikolov The political parties’ reports on how much their campaign for the European elections had cost show that the record sum was spent by Marine Le Pen’s partner in Bulgaria Vesselin Mareshki -…
By Krassen Nikolov Bulgarian MEP Emil Radev (EPP/GERB) announced he doesn’t want to be nominated as the country’s Chief Prosecutor. In recent months Radev’s name was unofficially mentioned as one of the possible candidates for…
By Georgi Gotev On 8 July Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that back in Brussels, the city where she was born, she met her “wonderful – and very European – transition team for the first…
By Georgi Gotev reporting from Strasbourg At least four of the five Bulgarian MEPs from the S&D group will vote on Tuesday (16 July) against Ursula von der Leyen to become Commission President, as proposed…
By Krassen Nikolov Part of the EPP group has serious doubts about Ursula von der Leyen’s nomination for President of the European Commission and may not support it, the Bulgarian MEP Radan Kanev told this…
By Krassen Nikolov Given the low standard of living in Bulgaria, the country’s MEPs can save relatively big sums of money during their term in the European Parliament. This is the first conclusion that pops…
EXCLUSIVE. The well-known Bulgarian investigative journalist Valia Ahchieva has forced the Supreme Administrative Court (VAS) to obtain the belated recognition of Sofia Ilinden Municipality that this administration had issued without a legal basis documents for…
By Krassen Nikolov The Bulgarian Socialist Party reacted sharply to the warm words expressed by PES leader Sergei Stanishev after his nomination for President of the new European Parliament. Although it was Italy’s Socialist David…
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