The councillors in the city of Burgas decided on Thursday to hold a referendum on the plans to build the oil pipeline to Greece, and it could well become a true test of how much independence do local authorities have. It's a sign of how rarely it happens
"Sofia, the belle of the Balkans!", exclaimed an American journalist during a summer trip to the Bulgarian capital, so long disparaged as a Balkan backwater. But would he recognise the place if he saw it at Christmas time?
There has recently emerged yet another proof of Bulgaria being the country of the absurdity. And still there is no other place where the poverty and wealth could cohabitate so peacefully.
Bulgaria's Socialist-led cabinet appears pretty intent on the new role it assumed recently - redistribution of revenue from the rich municipalities to the poor ones. "The Socialist party has always been of the opinion that benefits should not be concentr
Do you remember one of Judge Dredd's favourite sayings - "I am the law!" - well, it seems Boyko Borissov took it very much to heart, even though he is no longer employed in the interior ministry. On Monday, he interrogated the manager of one of Sofia's m
By Alexander Markov There are people who would just open a map and pick a destination attracted by the mere fact that the spot is where the road ends.
By Nikolay Hristov Darik Radio
When I heard this particular piece of news, about the Socialists wanting to reduce the number of committees in the Bulgarian parliament, my first thought was - and that's how you'll fix the situation where opposition MPs now hold key positions on committe
Bulgaria is unexpectedly bracing up for a new and not at all welcome type of tourism. It is called tax tourism.
Bulgarians are recently preoccupied with finding a clue to a strange riddle that could be a round in a prime time TV show and reads like that: guess whose Audi is it. Famous supermodel Tsetsi Krassimirova had her Audi confiscated by the police after it e
Bulgarians are like little children, they don't realise that paying more to the state/private pension funds is good for them, labour minister Emilia Maslarova seems to believe. Otherwise, they would realise what a wise investment it is for their own good
More than 70% of Bulgarians view efforts to fight corruption as ineffective, Transparency International said in its latest report. Nobody expects the conclusion of the respected survey to trigger political convulsions, right?
On the same day Bulgaria rejected a chance to become a minor player in the legitimate defence industry, while also pushing itself further into the embrace of Russian energy tycoons. Now, I got nothing against nuclear power.
Bulgaria's "just" justice system failed in yet another attempt to conceal a cold-blooded crime just because it has been committed by a Themis servant. The case that shook the public concerns an elderly man, who was run over by a drunk judge in the town o
They are rebels, who rose against a king and his far from liberal rules, cooked up for a handful of subjects living in the backyard of what was once his kingdom. They are rebels, whose biggest flaw until recently was their frantic loyalty to...
Ahmed Dogan, leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turks party, will welcome the holidays with a boosted political clout. He has to thank the former king Simeon Saxe-Coburg for the Christmas present.
Sofia Mayor's party decided it should not celebrate its first birthday alone and has heartily invited all Bulgarian rightist formations to join their happiness. Freshly re-elected head of the capital city Boyko Borissov and his people wrote a declaration
Every year, one out of a thousand Bulgarians dies in a traffic-related accident. It's a harrowing statistic.
If one needed any more proof that cheaters do prosper in Bulgaria in our day and age, Friday's decision by prime minister Sergey Stanishev to reinstate Delyan Peevski as deputy minister in the disaster management ministry should end all arguments. That's
The world may have become an interconnected tribe, best described as a "global village", but Bulgaria has been best described in the "Clever Village". The prophet is called Donyo Donev.
It was just a matter of time before the infighting in the party that no longer bears the name of Bulgaria's last monarch reached the boiling point and threatened to destroy not only the pot, but also the entire kitchen. With NDSV now having to share the
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