The report of the European Commission on the progress in Bulgaria under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism corresponds with Bulgaria’s most generous to all social groups budget, Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov said. Premier Borissov pointed out that the higher expenses are due to the good results in the fight against corruption and smuggling. Boyko Borissov underlined thatthree benchmarks out of six are provisionally closed. The closed benchmarks regard organized crime and judicial reform which weigh heavy on the Bulgarians for the past decades. Boyko Borissov quoted First Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans that “If the current positive trend continues and progress is maintained sustainably and irreversibly the CVM process for Bulgaria can be concluded before the end of this Commission’s mandate”. Premier Borissov voiced hopes that when the Dutch government reads the latest EC report it would change its position related to Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area.
We have to initiate debates on the freedom of media in Bulgaria, Premier Borissov said on occasion of the ascertainment in the latest EC report that media environment in Bulgaria deteriorated. The President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani told the Bulgarian National Radio that the problem related to ensuring freedom of media exists in other EU countries as well. On Tuesday EC First Vice President Frans Timmermans said that the topic about freedom of media in Bulgaria is not subject to monitoring under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, but influences the progress of the judicial reform and the fight against corruption.
On Sunday the weather will be predominantly sunny over most of the country. Cumulus clouds will form before midday over the Southeasternmost regions where there will be occasional showers. In the afternoon cumulus rain clouds will form over..
A 9-year old boy with multiple injuries has been airlifted from Burgas to Pirogov emergency hospital in Sofia by a Spartan aircraft. The boy got stuck inside the hydraulic drum of a beach cleaning machine on the central beach in Sozopol...
GERB/SDS will not support a government on the third mandate. This was made clear after three hours of consultations with There Is Such a People (ITN). At these consultations ITN presented its priorities in the spheres of justice, energy and foreign..
Bulgaria introduces mandatory disinfection of vehicles at all border crossings because of outbreaks of small ruminant plague in Northern..
Sunny weather will prevail on Monday. There will be more significant increases in cloudiness over the northern and eastern regions of..
The fires in the south-western regions of Bulgaria continue , as more than 15,000 decares of forests have already burned. The battle..
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