Before the National Assembly’s first sitting of the year, MPs from GERB party stated, in interviews with different TV channels, that they were prepared to support a government formed by Democratic Bulgaria. Denitsa Sacheva and Toma Bikov..
“Bulgaria has every chance of becoming part of Schengen next year ,” President Rumen Radev told reporters in Tirana where he is taking part in the EU-Western Balkans summit. He reiterated that the country is continuing its efforts towards accession..
"Institutions must contribute to the fight against crime instead of indulging in mutual accusations". This was stated by Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev at the forum "Justice in the future: prosecutors and students discuss law" in the town of Pleven...
Liquidating specialized jurisdiction is not judicial reform, it sows suspicion of illicit objectives that have nothing to do with public expectations, the Specialized Criminal Court and the Specialized Criminal Court of Appeal state in a written..
90% of judges in Bulgaria demand changes in the structure of the Supreme Judicial Council, reads a survey conducted among the magistrates, BTA informs. According to 9% of the respondents, the Supreme Judicial Council should maintain its current..
Bulgaria's Justice Minister Nadezhda Yordanova has called on the members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) to "step aside or back" and allow those next to continue judicial reform. "I think it is time to stop closing our eyes and to see personal..
Judicial reform is a mandatory precondition for Bulgaria's progress under EU's Recovery and Sustainability Plan, Justice Minister Nadezhda Yordanova told BNR. The problem with the chief prosecutor cannot be postponed, the minister said. The reform of..
Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev stated the prosecutor’s office was ready to take part in any discussion of a judicial reform that will live up to public expectations of more justice, BNR’s Silvia Velikova reports. Parties negotiating for the..
A roadmap with deadlines to show progress in the field of judicial reform will be part of the overall governance program of a possible future government with a mandate of "We continue the change" in coalition with the Bulgarian Socialist Party, ITN and..
“The European Commission has raised the issue, with particular poignancy, of the liability of the prosecutor general and of public scrutiny of his acts,” caretaker Minister of Justice Ivan Demerdzhiev said for BNT. The caretaker government has..
