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 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 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…
By Georgi Gotev I just became a “recruiter” in the campaign “This time I’m voting”, in the Bulgarian language section of the EU-wide initiative. It’s easy: it took a few seconds online. I did it…
“It seems logical that GERB would win the European elections if it doesn’t make mistakes. But it seems that this force is capable of making mistakes even when the problem seems easy to be solved….
By Krassen Nikolov In Bulgaria, the European elections are seen as a test for Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, at a time when his conservative GERB party are polling neck-and-neck with the socialists. The ruling coalition…
A new political scandal is about to start in Bulgaria, leading to further erosion of public confidence in the Bulgarian Parliament. The ruling party GERB claims that the European elections could be conducted by an…
Eugenia Baneva is an illustrious Bulgarian business lady who was arrested in August last year at the airport in Nice at the request of the authorities in Sofia. Four months later, Baneva was transferred to…
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…
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