Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional parts of the Social Services Act. Three articles giving broad rights to social service providers by NGOs to visit serviced persons and receive personal information about them have been..
Bulgaria’s former Minister of Defense and Ambassador to NATO Boyko Noev called on this country’s Constitutional Court to publish immediately the ruling on the immunity of the Bulgarian President. “If the immunity of the Presidential institution is..
Bulgaria's Constitutional Court has ruled that unpaid fines cannot be collected at the borders and the travel of Bulgarian citizens cannot be restricted, lawyer Ivan Todorov has told the BNR . However, the exact same mechanism has been introduced..
Ban on citizens of EU and Schengen countries entering Bulgaria has been lifted As of May 22, the ban on citizens of the EU and Schengen countries (including San Marino, Andorra, Monaco and the Vatican) to enter the territory of Bulgaria is..
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court admitted for consideration President Rumen Radev’s objections to two texts of the amended Health Act connected with the emergency epidemic situation introduced on May 14. President Radev argued that having the..
President Rumen Radev signed the amendments to the Health Act but will refer some of them to the Constitutional Court. The lack of plan by the government has led to the adoption of the changes at the last possible moment with vague and..
The recent amendments to the Political Parties Act and the Election Code, by force of which legal entities and sole proprietors will be allowed to make donations to political parties, were contested by President Rumen Radev in the Constitutional Court...
President Rumen Radev has requested the Constitutional Court to declare unconstitutional and non-compliant with international agreements, individual provisions of the act amending and supplementing the administrative procedure code. The..
The ruling of the Constitutional Court that the Istanbul Convention is not in compliance with the Bulgarian constitution, was, on the whole, welcomed by the political forces represented in parliament. The ruling GERB party commented that they..
The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, the Istanbul convention as it is known, is not in compliance with the Bulgarian constitution, the Constitutional Court ruled. The ruling..
