Fri, Feb 10 2012
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 discovery was made after some of the land in a complex near Bourgas was washed away by rough seas.
No trains could cross the Danube Bridge and passengers from international trains were being taken to the city of Rousse by road transport.
Hazardous weather warnings across the country on February 9, new record-low temperatures, and three people reported frozen to death in Pernik.
Opposition parties and environmental protection NGOs argued that this and other provisions were the result of lobbyist pressure from ski resort operators.
Ferry-boat service between the Bulgarian and Romanian banks of the river may continue if the ferry captains decide that the weather conditions allow the safe passage of the boats.
"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.