When it comes to a number of key benchmarks Bulgaria ranks among Sub-Saharan African countries and it has been getting increasingly difficult for it to fit into the "European landscape", President Rumen Radev said today at a meeting with students in Plovdiv. As problematic areas he listed income, social inequality, crime, corruption, aggression, high mortality, freedom of speech and quality of life.
"Bulgaria has failed almost completely in using the opportunities that the EU membership provided ... Our country is not only sustainably stuck at the bottom of the EU chart, but it is also lagging behind former socialist countries in which conditions were similar some years ago," the president said.
"I am addressing a question to the Prime Minister regarding information that on November 26 this year, a group of Bulgarian citizens was on trial in London on charges of spying for Russia," Atanas Atanasov, leader of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria..
Even before the election of the regular committees, the Parliament decided to set up an ad hoc committee to find out all the facts and circumstances of the drought problems in the country. The decision was taken unanimously with 203 votes in favour. The..
Hundreds of miners protested outside the Council of Ministers while an extraordinary meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation was held inside. The protest is against the planned 15% tax on underground resources from 2025, a tax..
It is too early to predict how the events in Syria would affect the war in Ukraine. This is what EU Defense Commissioner Andrius..
On December 11 and 12, President Rumen Radev continues consultations with parliamentary groups in the 51st National Assembly before the first..
We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria (PP/DB) will propose the setting up of a parliamentary commission of inquiry to conduct a large-scale..
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