The Bulgarian Constitutional Court will judge today whether provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) are in conflict with the Bulgarian constitution or not. The request was filed by 75 MPs. In the beginning of March this year the Bulgarian cabinet withdrew its proposal for ratification of the convention and asked the Constitutional Court to initiate a case for considering whether the Istanbul Convention is in line with the basic law in this country. Meanwhile, the Bulgarian National Assembly ruled out a possibility for a national referendum on this issue.
On Wednesday, minimum temperatures in Bulgaria will range from zero to 5° C., for Sofia around zero. There will be fog in some parts in the lowlands in the morning. During the day there will be clouds with no significant precipitation, the clouds..
Judge Vladislava Tsarigradska of the Pleven District Court received the grand prize "Person of the Year" of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. She grabbed the award for her active work in exposing unregulated relations and dependencies in the..
A scheme for tax crimes through the use of documents with false content about carrying out fictitious deals with fuel exempt from excise duty has been busted. The avoided payment of excise duty is over 4.8 million EUR. The company, which was..
The decision to scrap Schengen border checks by land for Bulgaria and Romania has been included as the first item on the agenda of the EU Justice and..
Pensioners whose monthly pension is below the poverty line of 526 leva (EUR 269) will receive a Christmas bonus of 100 leva (EUR 50), said caretaker..
Democratic Bulgaria has issued a position stating that an attempt must be made to form a government within the current parliament so as to avoid one..
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