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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
The former Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev and his government had always been honest, loyal partners of European institutions, according to the Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. Barroso replied on Tuesday to an inquiry by Martin Schulz, leader of the Group of Socialists and Democrats (GSD) in the European Parliament, who had asked what impressions Barroso had of working relations...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bulgria's former Minister of Economy and Energy, Rumen Ovcharov, stands a fair chance of losing his MP immunity over the unfavorable contract for the supply of Russian gas he made with Gazprom in 2006. This has been announced by the Monitor Daily, which points out that Ovcharov is probably going to be the third former Minister from the Stanishev cabinet to be charged with violations. Ovcharov is expected...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Sergey Stanishev, launched a critical attack on the country's cabinet Saturday. Stanishev, who is also Bulgaria's previous Prime Minister, said at in international forum dedicated to the social responsibility of political parties that the government of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party is making serious retreat from the...
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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov’s use of pizza to illustrate the 2010 Budget – thin crust, scant topping – inspired two Sofia restaurants to turn into reality the Dyankov Pizza; but Bulgaria’s political pantry offers many more possibilities.
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Foreign Minister, Rumiana Jeleva, is going to inform US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, of progress made by the Bulgarian government in fighting high-level corruption. Bulgaria's Minister is going to tell Clinton about the cases of investigation and charges against five former Bulgarian Ministers from the Stanishev government during their meeting in Washington DC on November 23, 2009. Jeleva had...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor's Office is preparing suits against four more former Ministers from the Stanishev government over corruption and abuses. This was announced Wednesday by Bulgaria's Foreign Minister, Rumiana Jeleva, after she met with Chief Prosecutor, Boris Velchev. One of the Stanishev government Ministers, ex-Agriculture head, Valeri Tsvetanov, was already charged with violations in September....
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev has admitted to skipping the parliamentary session, which adopted at first reading the budget bill for next year without much debate. "It is the obligation of the majority to defend what they propose. This is the first time that the rulers dare skip this," said Stanishev, whose party was forced out of office...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has congratulated Socialist Party candidate for Sofia Mayor, Georgi Kadiev, for his courage during the election campaign. “I want to congratulate Georgi Kadiev because he turned out to be the only real man in the BSP. Their leader Sergey Stanishev should have stood up and ran instead of hiding behind Kadiev ...
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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Yordanka Fandukova, 47, becomes Sofia's first woman mayor after landslide election victory
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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Low turnout mars Sofia's mayoral election as GERB candidate Fandukova looks set to triumph
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Sergey Stanishev, Chair of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, declared Sunday he expected a second round of the Sofia Mayor Elections. “I voted for a change because in the last 20 years Sofia has been governed by rightists and the results are not very inspiring,” Stanishev stated upon voting. In his words, his party’s candidate, Georgi Kadiev, was the one who stood for change....
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Bulgaria Socialist Party leader and former PM, Sergey Stanishev, has written an article entitled "No more independence ... there is only Boyko", the BSP press center reported Saturday. The article is highly critical of PM Boyko Borisov and the new center-right GERB government’s first 100 days in power and Stanishev also defends his own record as PM: “Boyko Borisov may be able...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Bulgaria’s economy will continue to contract in the second half of this year and will fail to return to growth before the second quarter next year, the finance minister has said. The statement of Minister Simeon Djankov came after statistics showed that the Bulgarian economy has fallen into an even deeper recession in the third quarter and contracted an annual 5.8% after shrinking 4....
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The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
(Novinite) -- The former undercover agent of the Bulgarian National Security Agency DANS, Aleksei Petrov, announced Thursday night he had revealed to the special Parliamentary Committee all the secret information he knew about backstage scenarios in the country. “I am have revealed what I know about this post-totalitarian model of eliminating competition or opponents through discrediting, and...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Bulgarian Socialist Party Leader Sergey Stanishev has alerted to irregularities in the Sofia Municipality contract for the Metro construction between ‘Obelya’ and ‘Nadezhda’. Stanishev confirmed that BSP would not be sending a signal to the Prosecutor’s Office because the competent authorities would have to take action at their own initiative. "There is a quite obvious...
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