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…
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 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…
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov resorted to heavy anti-communist rhetoric, typical of the early 1990s, in a speech in the European Parliament on Thursday (21 March). Borissov, who arrived the same day for the two-day…
An exclusive interview by Krassen Nikolov Svetoslav Malinov is a member of the Democrats for Strong Bulgaria and part of the EPP Group in the European Parliament. He is one of the likely leaders of…
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 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 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…
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