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The European Commission will pursue court action against Bulgaria for failing to properly implement EU waste law, the Commission said Friday two years after it launched an infringement procedure on the issue. The case concerns...
Bulgaria's Prosecutor's Office has officially charged former Defense Minister, Nikolay Tsonev, with signing deals that were unfavorable for the Ministry. One of those contracts is the purchase of an US assembly line for the...
by Nicolas Mottas 11-10-09 Some people in Greece believe that the newly-elected government of George Papandreou will exercise an explicit "pro-American" Foreign Policy. They argue that the Prime Minister is going to abandon the...
A huge row has erupted in the Bulgarian Parliament on Wednesday, with MPs trading accusations and insults at their opponents, and criticizing the Speaker for her conduct. This was in reaction to Tuesday's debate of the draft...
Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has declared that Wednesday's unblocking of previously frozen PHARE Program money for Bulgaria, was a great boost for his government. Borisov announced the his cabinet had received a fax from EU...
The Sofia Chairman of the rightist Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) party, Gen. Atanas Atanasov, has accused socialist Sofia Mayor candidate Georgi Kadiev's wife of being involved with a corruption scheme. Atanasov...
Bulgaria's President, Georgi Parvanov, has slammed Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, over a controversy between the two regarding state funding for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In an article entitled "The Question Is Not...
Two members of parliament from the ethnic Turkish party have officially declared agreement to be stripped of immunity from prosecution as part of a corruption investigation. Gyunay Sefer and Mithat Tabakov, who were elected on...
The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev has admitted to skipping the parliamentary session, which adopted at first reading the budget bill for next year without much debate. "It is...
Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev is being investigated in connection with leaked classified information, while a member of his cabinet is probed for criminal breach of trust and another has already been indicted...
