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.
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev met with the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Bulgaria, Nasri Khalil Salim Abu Jaish. Rumen Radev welcomed the agreement reached on a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the hostages . President Radev expressed..
The Sofia City Council has suspended two of the night bus lines – N3 (from Levski G to Ovcha Kupel 2) and N4 (from Druzhba 2 to Gotse Delchev) . The other two lines – N1 (from Lyulin 1 and 2 to Mladost 4) and N2 (from Obelya to Student's Town)..
Stabilising state finances will be the main task of the Finance Ministry, its new head Temenuzhka Petkova said at her inauguration as minister. The only woman minister in the new cabinet, Petkova said that Bulgaria had an opportunity to introduce..
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..
On the basis of December inflation data published yesterday by Eurostat, the Institute for Market Economics (IME) forecasts that the country could join..
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..
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