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…
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…
By Georgi Gotev My colleague blogger Emanuele Bonini writes that despite the terrible political situation in Italy, his compatriots can be proud that the new European Parliament President is Italian, and another Italian succeeded to…
By Georgi Gotev Bulgaria may be a small country and the poorest in the EU, but two Bulgarian names have been widely mentioned as candidates for EU top jobs at the marathon summit that ended…
By Georgi Gotev Vesselin Mareshki, a businessman turned politician who gained international notoriety for being the Bulgarian political ally of Marine Le Pen, announced that he will run for mayor of Sofia. Municipal elections will…
By Krassen Nikolov The Netherlands continues to block Bulgaria’s Schengen accession because of the corruption and of another problem highlighted this time – human trafficking. On Wednesday (5 June), Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok, who…
By Krassen Nikolov The incumbent European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel led the European election list of GERB, the EPP-affiliated party of Boyko Borissov, and was elected as an MEP. But on…
Rossen Bossev, who works for “Capital“ weekly and is one of the Bulgaria’s top investigative reporters, was sentenced for defamation and imposed a fine, for having slandered the former Chairman of the Financial Supervision Commission…
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