Bulgarian Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva will be given the portfolio "Start-ups, Research and Innovation" in the next European Commission. This was announced today in the European Parliament by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Later, in a..
Parliament's political forces reacted with a strong dose of scepticism to the eccentric proposal by "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" for Bulgaria's president Rumen Radev to delay handing over the second exploratory mandate for three months...
"Bulgaria needs a government more than ever," said Mariya Gabriel of GERB-SDS. The former European Commissioner is prime minister-designate under a power-sharing agreement (called "rotation") between the two main political coalitions in Parliament,..
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) will not nominate a candidate for mayor of Sofia, nor will it support other parties' candidates - even in the run-off, MRF MP Delyan Peevski said. On the occasion of GERB's announcement that their..
After the president handed over the second mandate for forming a government, I think it has become clear what the stakes are, the co-chairman of "We Continue the Change" (PP), Assen Vassilev, commented on Facebook. “Dictatorship or..
The BSP will decide whether to support GERB's formula for creating an expert government after the party's National Council votes on the issue, leader Kornelia Ninova said. A little later, Ninova announced that the BSP was ending talks with GERB to..
Mustafa Karadayi, leader of the MRF, described the statement of Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev, in which he said he would not resign, as a "personal choice". "However, we are the ones who have to do the judicial reform, including with changes in the..
Calling the people's elected representatives "political scumbags" is wrong. I am not in a position to offer ambassadorial posts that are approved by the president. This is how GERB leader Boyko Borissov rejected the claims of Prosecutor General Ivan..
The proposal of the members of the Prosecutors' College to the Supreme Judicial Council for early dismissal of Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev was welcomed in the National Assembly. Speaking to journalists in the parliament, Atanas Slavov, a..
The European Commission has refused to comment on the tensions between Bulgaria and North Macedonia since 4 February. However, officials told BNT that the Commission was closely monitoring the development of relations between the two countries and..
