Sun, Nov 22 2009
Boiko Borissov and Boris Velchev
Photo: Anelia Nikolova
The Foreign Ministry will only send career diplomats to job postings abroad, removing political appointees
Boiko Borissov sends a clear signal of his Government’s political will to fight crime, but refrains from promising immediate results, while saying that he wants street crime cleared away in six months and if anyone fails in their duty, ‘I will take matters in my own hands’.
Election results bring changes at all levels
Who got what at the July general elections
I would not form a coalition government at any cost, Borissov says while criticising outgoing Cabinet for making last-minute diplomatic appointments.
Moutafchiiski: "We were told through a third party that if we wanted to qualify for the million, we need to return the 600 000 back immediately"
Municipal election commission says Sofians will go to the polls on October 24 to choose a replacement for Boiko Borissov after he becomes Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
Special news conference at which President Purvanov, a former BSP leader, congratulated Borissov on his election victory and criticised Sergei Stanishev’s party seen by some media as putting distance between himself and the Socialists.
Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov's Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) won 39.7 per cent of the vote in Parliament elections, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) said after all votes were counted.
The European Commission is taking Bulgaria to court for delays in providing Sofia with adequate waste disposal facilities.
James Warlick is the spouse of Mary Warlick, director of the office of Russian affairs at the US state department, who has been nominated to serve as ambassador to Serbia
Bulgaria’s Health Ministry announced on November 20 2009 that the flu epidemic declared two weeks earlier is at an end as rates of infection decline. The announcement coincides with reports of two deaths from A (H1N1) flu in Bulgaria.
Acting on allegations by Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria leader Ivan Kostov, prosecutors and Government officials are to probe deals by which Movement for Rights and Freedoms leader Ahmed Dogan acquired various properties.
Prosecutors allege that a deal agreed by the former defence minister caused losses of 12.9 million leva.
"Prosecutor-General's Office is with the judiciary, not with the executive"
Not so fast. This is not correct. The prosecutor office is an executive body performing judicial functions.