“This is an attempt to make a purely criminal case political for pre-election purposes,” said President Rumen Radev in a comment on the investigations into the National Customs Agency and the Secretary General of the Interior Ministry Zhivko Kotsev.
Talking about the compromising photographs of a former interior minister and the current secretary general of the Interior Ministry together with persons under investigation for smuggling that were leaked to the press, the president said: “What kind of Interior Ministry secretary general can you be if you don’t know who you are going to luxury resorts with, who you are entering a sauna naked with, who you are getting expensive gifts from?” The president congratulated the chair of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) Plamen Tonchev and the agency staff on the courage to investigate the highest administrative levels. “Imagine, if last year I had yielded to the hysteria and had dismissed Plamen Tonchev, now we would know nothing about these outrages,” the president said.
“Investing in people, education, innovations and technologies is the key to success in the future,” said President Rumen Radev at the opening of the business forum in Singapore, in which representatives of companies from Bulgaria and Singapore are..
“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she said she was optimistic about Austria’s decision. Asked what the arguments are for blocking the..
The Constitutional Court has opened a case following the request by President Rumen Radev for the amendments to the Constitution, endorsed by the 49 th National Assembly, to be declared unconstitutional. These amendments concern the lifting of the..
The MPs failed to elect a speaker also at their fourth attempt . Of the four candidates, Raya Nazaryan, nominated by GERB - SDS, and Silvi Kirilov -..
Bulgaria has become the first in the EU to have a high-tech artificial intelligence in its own language , created by a state-funded scientific..
According to an analysis by the Electricity System Operator, a shortage of electricity is expected as early as January and February next year. At a..
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