"Great Powers wished success to the new Bulgarian president," the Standard reads. The paper writes that Rumen Radev received greetings from Washington and Moscow hours after his election victory. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed in his message confidence that joint efforts will give new impetus to dialogue and cooperation "in the interests of the fraternal peoples of the two countries." We welcome some of the statements made by Radev, Standard quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying. In a statement the US embassy in Bulgaria said that the US was willing to work with the newly elected Bulgarian president for the joint commitment to NATO and the solidarity in the Alliance. Radev received greetings also from the President of the European Commission and President of the European Council Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk.
Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has submitted the resignation of the government to Parliament. It will be voted on by lawmakers as early as Wednesday, 24 Hours informs, quoting "leading figures in Bulgarian parties and lawyers." The newspaper confidently writes that early parliamentary elections will take place before Easter - on April 2 or April 9.
Trud focuses on the news that MPs from GERB have set a deadline until December 15 for the parliamentary legal committee to be ready with a report over the second reading on decisions of the recent referendum. They announced that they would file a bill for majoritarian voting system in two rounds, used in electing all 240 MPs. The bill also envisages reducing party subsidies to 50 euro cents per vote and obligatory voting.
“Grand National Assembly convening is at bill’s distance" the Sega paper writes, quoting the will for changes in the Bulgarian constitution, expressed by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, ABV, and DSB. Borissov's GERB party plans to work for reducing the number of MPs from 240 to 120. ABV has been calling for increased powers of the president, while the leadership of DSB declared that Bulgaria needed an entirely new constitution for a "radical change of the political system." The paper draws attention to the fact that GERB changed its position on the budget "within hours," as yesterday morning the chairman of the budget committee, Menda Stoyanova, said that the draft will be withdrawn. Later Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov denied the information.
To insist on seeking a military settlement to the conflict in Ukraine is a losing venture. Europe should support the efforts of the US to find a better solution, said President Rumen Radev at the Chief of Defence Annual Conference in Sofia. At..
“There is no change, Bulgarian troops are not going to be sent to Ukraine,” said PM Rosen Zhelyazkov in a comment about the meeting between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House. “The institutions in..
Bulgaria is to take part in common procurement procedures in the sphere of defence at an EU level, under projects for the acquisition of IRIS-T air defence systems and CAESAR self-propelled howitzers. The Ministry of Defence applied for and..
According to data from Eurostat, Bulgaria has met the final criterion for joining the eurozone, namely price stability, Minister of Finance Temenuzhka..
The Ministers of Agriculture of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have called on the European Commission to restore pre-war import quotas for..
Sofia has taken over the presidency of the most prestigious local government forum in the Balkans – B40. The capital’s mayor Vasil Terziev accepted the..
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