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…
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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 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…
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…
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 Krassen Nikolov Bulgarian Justice Minister Danail Kirilov announced that he would resign if the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) was not lifted by the end of Juncker Commission’s mandate. The bet is risky, given…
By Georgi Gotev On 26 April Vĕra Jourová, the EU Commissioner for justice, said on 26 April that the Juncker Commission will not lift the monitoring on Bulgaria under the so-called Cooperation and Verification Mechanism…
By Krassen Nikolov To fight for the enforcement of equal minimum wages and pensions for all countries in the EU is one of the big promises that the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) made to the…
By Georgi Gotev and Aline Robert Vesselin Mareshki, the Bulgarian partner of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, said that the present “bureaucratic” EU was keeping down Bulgaria as a second-class member state, while Marine Le…
By Krassen Nikolov The Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov held a working meeting with the First Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans in Brussels on 15 April. The aim was to inform Timmermans…
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