On 10 November, 1989, one day after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the November plenum of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, long-standing communist leader Todor Zhivkov was relieved of the post of secretary general of the..
“The election results are authentic and reflect the votes cast, as it should be in a democracy,” Prime Minister Stefan Yanev stated at today’s cabinet meeting. “We ascertained an extremely low voter turnout, unfortunately, the fact that the..
19% of Bulgarians believe that this country is governed according to the will of the people and 74% are of the opposite opinion. 6% do not give a specific answer. There has been no significant change in this regard in the past few..
“The European Parliament’s democracy monitoring group is discussing, on 5 February, whether to organize a mission at the end of summer to look into corruption and the rule of law in Bulgaria,” Bulgarian Progressive Alliance of Socialists and..
The Monitoring Group on Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights (DRFMG) at the European Parliament is to discuss the situation in Bulgaria at today's meeting. Representatives of the government and the Prosecutor's Office of Bulgaria,..
The Monitoring Group on Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights (DRFMG) in the European Parliament is not satisfied with the answers it received to written questions sent by it to the Bulgarian authorities about the course of the judicial reform,..
The Center for the Study of Democracy has presented a study of public attitudes towards democracy in 2020. Bulgaria is among the countries in Central and Eastern Europe, which is alarmingly closer to authoritarianism, the center's head, Ruslan Stefanov,..
Most Bulgarians rely on the intervention of European institutions in the country's internal problems, according to a study by the Sova Harris agency in November. 60% of the respondents share the main conclusion in the resolution of the European..
The political parties represented at Bulgaria’s National Assembly exchanged declarations over the resolution on the rule of law in Bulgaria adopted by the European Parliament. Dragomir Stoynev from the Bulgarian Socialist Party criticized the..
The situation in Bulgaria will be discussed at a closed meeting of the Group on Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law at the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, BTA has reported. The meeting will be..
