The 67th consecutive protest is planned for tonight in the centre of Sofia demanding the resignation of the government, with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, and of Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev. The organizers are expected to announce the date of the third protest of the series dubbed “Grand National Uprising”.
Earlier today anti-government protests were organized by Bulgarians in Munich and Brussels. They were supported by Irish MEP Clare Daly by video message. Yesterday’s 66th day of protests in Sofia passed without incident.
Last night in Tryavna, President Rumen Radev called on the government to resign. “I am ready and I am obligated to sit down, at the table, with the political parties and with public figures and to discuss the future of Bulgaria, but only after the government has stepped down,” President Radev said, and added that their obstinacy is pushing Bulgaria to an impasse.
The SDS (Union of Democratic Forces), GERB's coalition partner, has reservations not only towards the BSP, but also towards "Democracy, Rights and Freedoms" around Ahmed Dogan. According to the leader of the SDS and co-chairman of the GERB-SDS..
A green ticket worth 1 lev for a whole day of travel on Sofia's public transport and free parking in the metro's buffer parking lots is being introduced for today and Monday (January 19 and 20), the Sofia Municipality announced. The measure is..
On the Bulgarian border with Turkey , traffic is extremely heavy at the Kapitan Andreevo and Lesovo border checkpoints at the exit for trucks, the Border Police reported as of 6:00 this morning. Temporarily, the passage through the Malko Tarnovo..
A global campaign focusing on the right of every child to grow up in a family environment has been launched in Sofia on the initiative of the UK..
Since 2007, when Bulgaria joined the European Union, the country has received €16.3 billion in EU funds, according to an analysis by the Institute for..
On the basis of December inflation data published yesterday by Eurostat, the Institute for Market Economics (IME) forecasts that the country could join..
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