European Parliament Passes Landmark Directive on Platform Workers' Rights
The European Parliament has approved the EU's inaugural directive aimed at regulating the employment rights of individuals working through online platforms
The separate European Parliament elections list recently announced by Bulgarian ex President Georgi Parvanov could get 7% of votes, according to an opinion poll by Alpha Research.
As things stand now, the list, to be led by current S&D MEP Ivaylo Kalfin, is set to negatively affect the results of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, show the survey's results.
The Socialist Party could lose some 20% of people who voted for it in general elections May 2013, with some 15% of respondents saying they would vote for the leftists.
Main rivals GERB are supported by 17.8% of people asked in Alpha Research's national survey.
Close to half of people who said they would vote for Parvanov's ABV are supporters of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, with the rest composed of people with centrist and nationalist political beliefs.
According to the opinion poll, most those who moved away from voting for BSP are disappointed with the party's behavior after May elections, or personally with BSP and PES leader Sergey Stanishev.
The Socialists' coalition partner, the liberal Movement for Rights and Freedoms, comes third with 6.2%, followed by the new rightist Reformist Bloc with 5.2%.
Nationalists Ataka continue to show low support for European Elections 2014, scoring only 2.5% in the survey.
The newly founded Bulgaria without Censoriship party led by former journalist Nikolay Barekov has registered a support of 2.6%.
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About 1 200 000 "phantom voters" can be found in Bulgarian elections lists, Mihail Konstantinov, formerly a high-profile official in charge of elections, believes.
Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) starts receiving documents for the registration of political parties and coalitions for the early elections on October 5.
A majority in the European Parliament has approved Jean-Claude Juncker to be President of the European Commission, reports BBC.
The European Parliament is expected to approve on Tuesday the nomination of former Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission.
Former Environment Minister Iskra Mihaylova has become the nomination of the European Parliament's ALDE group to chair the Regional Policy Committee.
The European Parliament has re-elected Martin Schulz for a second presidential term, with 409 votes from the 751 MEPs.