The campaign for the European elections in Bulgaria entered a hot phase. Krassen Nikolov tells the story. Two weeks ago, Elena Yoncheva, a key figure of the opposition BSP, was charged by the prosecution for…
Time flies and no new political force has made itself known in Bulgaria as the European elections are getting close. According to sociologists, there is room for a new political force, the usual miracle-maker. Many…
There is a big risk that the way it has been designed, civil confiscation in Bulgaria could be used as a mechanism for harassment instead of addressing the real problems of law-enforcement, writes Blaga Thavard….
On Sunday (20 January) Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his right hand Tsvetan Tsvetanov gathered 2,000 of the party leadership at a pre-election congress in Sofia. The gathering was in the same building where were…
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered in force last May with the purpose of stopping the abuse with the citizens’ private data by business. GDPR is one of the big achievements of the Juncker…
The ‘Democratic Bulgaria’ Coalition is the fifth and possibly the last political formation in Bulgaria with a chance to enter the European Parliament in the upcoming elections. This coalition is made up of three parties…
Millennium Club Bulgaria, a think tank of Bulgarians born after the 1st of January 1981 who studied (or are still studying) abroad, hosted on Monday (14 January) a talk show in Sofia about the future of…
The Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office, during the term of the incumbent Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov, has become an actor on the political stage by itself. Krassen Nikolov has the story. When elections start approaching in Bulgaria…
One of the leading questions hanging in the balance of the European elections in Bulgaria, aside from the future of the current government, is how the nationalist and far-right parties will settle their differences. The…
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