The European Commission will present the 2020 Annual Rule of Law Report in September. The new European Rule of Law Mechanism will be applicable across all members of the European Union and will replace the monitoring on separate EU countries such as the former Cooperation and Verification Mechanism on Bulgaria and Romania. The report will cover issues related to the fight against corruption, freedom of media and pluralism and inter-institutional balances. Following the publication of the report in September, debates with the European Council and the European Parliament will be held.
The National Revenue Agency is inspecting currency exchange offices due to increased interest in buying euros . Within just one week, the exchange of Bulgarian leva into euros increased by 43%, the agency’s director, Rumen Spetsov, announced in..
Kiril Petkov announced at a briefing that he is taking political responsibility and resigning as co-chair of "We Continue the Change" (part of the PP-DB coalition, which has the second largest number of MPs in the National Assembly)..
A Japan-Bulgaria business forum on the topic of "Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization" was held in Sofia. "Bulgaria has a whole palette of advantages. However, they are little known in Japan. Our task is to provide much clearer..
Another protest against the adoption of the euro took place in Sofia and other cities in Bulgaria on June 28. The protest in the capital Sofia..
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