By Krassen Nikolov “I am shocked when I am called ‘minister of justice’. But I will have to get used to it.” That is how the new minister Danail Kirilov candidly commented his new key…
By Krassen Nikolov The corruption scandal with the apartments bought by high level officials at suspiciously low prices might have a positive effect on the campaign for the European elections in Bulgaria. “Bulgaria should stop…
By Krassen Nikolov The chairman of the anti-corruption agency (Commission for Combating Corruption and the Withdrawal of Illegally Acquired Property – KPKONPI) Plamen Georgiev has serious difficulty to justify what income allowed him to buy…
Valia Ahchieva has found the smoking gun: a report by honest experts who went beyond their narrow assignment and identified the real reasons that led to the road accident that killed 20 people near Svoge….
Georgi Gotev Bulgaria’s two antagonistic political behemoths, Boyko Borrisov’s GERB and the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), have elected women to lead their lists for the European elections. BSP held an internal vote, electing journalist Elena…
By Krassen Nikolov The party of former president Georgi Parvanov “Alternative for Bulgarian Revival” (ABV) is using hybrid tricks vis-à-vis the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) just ahead of the European elections. ABV will appear in…
By Krassen Nikolov Tzvetan Tzvetanov, who is the leader of the GERB’s parliamentary group and the right-hand of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, announced he is leaving parliament. The reason is the suspicious purchase of an…
By Georgi Gotev Rumen Cholakov, the chairman of Millennium Club Bulgaria, announced on Wednesday (March 27th) that the non-governmental organisation he represents is making “a proposal that has never been done in Bulgarian politics.” Under…
An opinion by Georgi Gotev Thanks to the so-called “Mobility package”, Bulgarians have a much better understanding of who their MEPs are, and how the European Parliament functions. Among the controversial reforms in the package…
By Georgi Gotev The Bulgarian Prosecutor-General’s Office said it has launched an investigation into a real estate deal by Tzvetan Tzvetanov, the deputy chairman of the ruling GERB party. According to an investigation by Radio…
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