Bulgaria’s businessman Plamen Bobokov was taken again into 24 hour custody under the influence peddling investigation. The charges have been pressed over the SMS correspondence between Bobokov and President Radev’s Secretary on legal affairs and anti-corruption Plamen Uzunov. According to the SMS correspondence, the Bulgarian businessman was lobbying for appointment of ambassadors of Bulgaria to Algeria and Nigeria. The correspondence between them was found in the phone of Plamen Bobokov who was released earlier on a record-high EUR 500,000 bail. Plamen Bobokov, together with his brother Atanas Bobokov and a former minister of environment are investigated under another proceeding- for illegal import and export of waste.
To insist on seeking a military settlement to the conflict in Ukraine is a losing venture. Europe should support the efforts of the US to find a better solution, said President Rumen Radev at the Chief of Defence Annual Conference in Sofia. At..
“There is no change, Bulgarian troops are not going to be sent to Ukraine,” said PM Rosen Zhelyazkov in a comment about the meeting between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House. “The institutions in..
Bulgaria is to take part in common procurement procedures in the sphere of defence at an EU level, under projects for the acquisition of IRIS-T air defence systems and CAESAR self-propelled howitzers. The Ministry of Defence applied for and..
According to data from Eurostat, Bulgaria has met the final criterion for joining the eurozone, namely price stability, Minister of Finance Temenuzhka..
On Monday, the lowest temperatures will range from minus 15°C to minus 10°C, higher in Western Bulgaria, for Sofia around minus 4°C. In the morning,..
Sofia has taken over the presidency of the most prestigious local government forum in the Balkans – B40. The capital’s mayor Vasil Terziev accepted the..
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