Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev who is paying an official visit to the Vatican was received today at the Cortile di San Damaso inner courtyard of the Vatican Palace. Together with St Peter’s Square Cortile di San Damaso is the other prestigious square in the Vatican, where high-standing guests are received. The meeting between President Plevneliev and Pope Francis lasted for nearly thirty minutes. In President Plevneliev’s words, Pope Francis sent a message that “ordinary people matter and each ordinary person must succeed and progress”. President Plevneliev and Pope Francis discussed the refugee crisis in Europe during the meeting. This year the visit of the Bulgarian delegation to the Vatican on ocasion of the National Day of Culture and Slavonic Script is dedicated to the 1,100th death anniversary of Saint Clement of Ohrid-the first Bulgarian bishop who held services in Old-Bulgarian language, as well as to the 1,150th anniversary of the talks between Prince Boris 1 and Pope Nicholas which gave the start of the diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and the Vatican.
Without having any clarity on the exact timing of the second exploratory mandate for government formation, GERB said in a media statement that the GERB-SDS parliamentary group will unequivocally not support it under any circumstances. This stance also..
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The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) will first circulate a letter to other parliamentary groups asking whether they are open to supporting a second..
The National Museum of Literature celebrates 174 years since the birth of Ivan Vazov. The celebration also marks the round anniversary of the first..
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