By Krassen Nikolov On Thursday (14 March), Vesselin Mareshki, the leader of the populist party “Volya”, and his eleven MPs, announced that they were leaving the parliament. Thus Mareshki would leave the functioning of the…
By Krassen Nikolov EPP President Joseph Daul called the Bulgarian political parties of the European right to run united for the European elections. The Bulgarian members of the EPP are the ruling party GERB, Bulgaria…
By Valia Ahchieva On 10 August last year, the Commercial Register in Bulgaria went off, creating unprecedented chaos. Citizens, companies and the administration remained cut off from a vital database. The uncertainty fuelled fears of…
By Krassen Nikolov In February 2017, BSP leader Kornelia Ninova could almost smell victory in the parliamentary elections. Pre-election opinion polls had shown that the socialist party will have equal or even better results than…
By Krassen Nikolov In the run up to the European elections domestic scandals can have huge consequences, as their fallout is difficult to predict. It’s even worse if the scandal would have an international dimension….
By Georgi Gotev The Bulgarian National Television (BNT) inadvertently disclosed the very simple mechanism allowing big players with guilty conscience to stop the publication of journalistic investigations affecting their interests. The supporting roles in killing…
By Krassen Nikolov Major success in protecting the EU’s external border is a favourite argument of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov when he is persuading the EU partners that the country should be accepted as…
By Georgi Gotev Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB), a small party affiliated to EPP, has sent a letter, asking for the expulsion of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party from the centre-right European political family, the website…
Our distinguished contributor Valia Ahchieva was asked to stop contributing to media other than the Bulgarian National Television (BNT), although BNT has put down her weekly program. In fact, Ahchieva contributes only to EUelectionsBulgaria.com. Several…
By Krassen Nikolov For 12 years, Romania and Bulgaria have been under the European Commission’s monitoring because of the high-level corruption and the attacks against the independence of the judiciary. The similarities between the two…
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