The National Assembly Committee on Culture and the Media has approved the draft decision of GERB party to assign the National Audit Office with the task to check the Bulgarian National Radio. The audit will cover the period January 1, 2017-September 30, 2019. The final report of the audit must be presented until January 31, 2020. Last Friday Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissiv announced in Parliament that he would ask the National Assembly to task the National Audit Office to audit the national radio after BNR stopped broadcasting Horizont channel for 5 hours on September 13. Today, the Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria organized a protest in support of the freedom of speech. AEJ-Bulgaria will request international inquiry into the case.
The police have neutralized an organized crime group that transported migrants from Burgas through Sofia to the Serbian border, Sofia District Prosecutor Natalia Nikolova said at a briefing. She indicated that 13 addresses were..
Democracy is consistently perceived by a solid majority in Bulgarian society as the best form of governance. Approximately 1.5 million citizens declare their willingness to risk their personal security to protect it, according to a representative study..
The Confederation of Labor "Podkrepa" does not support the government's proposed state budget for 2026 , the union announced. As reasons, the second most important trade union in the country points out "the lack of policies and reforms to address..
The European Commission has presented a proposal for developing high-speed railway lines within the EU until 2040, linking the capitals in the EU, among..
The European Commission has decided to withhold EUR 215 million from the second payment under Bulgaria’s recovery and resilience plan, the EC told the..
Prokopan is the only railway tunnel on the Plovdiv-Burgas line. This became clear during a visit by Deputy Minister of Transport Lyuben Nanov, who was..
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