“Whose interests does the bill submitted by Democratic Bulgaria, aimed to stop all 700 lawsuits filed by this country's Anti-Mafia Commission, serve?”, asked the Chairperson of the GERB/SDS parliamentary group Desislava Atanasova on Facebook. The lawsuits concern 1,600 people. The commission claims assets to the tune of over EUR 1.5 billion, added Desislava Atanasova.
She also published a short list of the most important claims: A claim against Tsvetan Vasilev to the tune of EUR 1 billion; Banev family- EUR 70 million; Arabadjiev family - EUR 175 million; Minyo Staykov – EUR 65 million; Vasil Bozhkov – EUR 100 million and Ivo Prokopiev - 100 million euros.
Red paint was splattered in front of the Russian Embassy in Sofia. A video posted on the Facebook page of "BOEC" shows activists of the civil movement unloading paint buckets from a vehicle and spilling the paint in front of the embassy..
"We came out to defend freedom. We will keep fighting. The protest continues on Wednesday", Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov said an interview with BNR. "The protest continues inside the National Assembly. We will resist until the end", the MP..
Despite the ban by the Sofia Municipality, the Lukov March took place under heightened police presence. Participants in the far-right procession gathered on February 22 at Sveta Nedelya Square. They marched to the house of General Hristo Lukov, where..
According to data from Eurostat, Bulgaria has met the final criterion for joining the eurozone, namely price stability, Minister of Finance Temenuzhka..
The Ministers of Agriculture of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have called on the European Commission to restore pre-war import quotas for..
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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