Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has notified the Constitutional Court in connection with a Resolution of the National Assembly for holding a national referendum at the initiative of TV host Slavi Trifonov and regarding three of the referendum questions: whether voting at elections and referenda should be allowed to take place also electronically and from a distance; whether the number of members of parliament should be cut from 240 to 120, and whether the heads of the regional and district departments of the Ministry of Interior should be elected with a majority vote in two rounds and with an absolute majority.
“Five people from the parliamentary group are going to be “torn apart” during the voting for a cabinet but will, most probably, not give their support,” Ivelin Mihaylov, one of the founders of Velichie party said for the BNR. GERB-SDS..
In an analysis of the pension system in Bulgaria, the International Monetary Fund urges the country to raise pensions by raising social security contributions and doing away with the maximum insurable earnings. According to the analysis, pensions in..
Bulgarian tour operators and travel agents are hoping the new parliament will reconsider the decision to revert to the higher VAT (20%) for the industry as of 1 July. They are insisting that tourist packages be subject to 9% VAT until the end of..
“Five people from the parliamentary group are going to be “torn apart” during the voting for a cabinet but will, most probably, not give their..
The first joint operation of the newly formed Mine Counter Measures Task Group Black Sea involving Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania is to take place July..
The caretaker government has fulfilled its main task successfully – organizing fair and transparent elections for National Assembly and for European..
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