Daniel Mitov Ready for Foreign Minister Role Amid Geopolitical Test in Bulgaria
Daniel Mitov, Deputy Chairman of GERB, has expressed his readiness to assume the position of Acting Foreign Minister
The currently unrestricted public access to the Business (Trade) Registry of Bulgaria's Registry Agency will be limited and paid as of the beginning of 2012.
The amendment means that the companies' contracts, protocols, shareholders' decisions and other vital information will be hidden.
It passed with the votes of ruling centrist-right GERB and their closest allies, the far-rightist Ataka, just two days after an obscure Bulgarian company bought the country's giant bankrupt steel mill, raising suspicions who stays behind the deal.
"Transparency" is one of those annoying words politicians overuse on a daily basis while ensuring exactly the opposite is in place. As the taxpayers and the ruling class are going through a tough stage in their relationship – with polls showing people are growingly frustrated - it is an expected move on behalf of the latter to get rid of unpleasant questions like who is connected with this or that murky businessman.
The problem with hiding a rotten fish under the carpet, however, is that it will still stink.
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If we look at history, there are not many cases in which relations between Bulgaria and Russia at the state level were as bad as they are at the moment.
The term “Iron Curtain” was not coined by Winston Churchill, but it was he who turned it into one of the symbols of the latter part of the twentieth century by using it in his famous Fulton speech of 1946.
Hardly anything could be said in defense of the new government's ideological profile, which is quite blurry; at the same time much can be disputed about its future "pro-European" stance.
Look who is lurking again behind the corner – the tandem of Advent International and Deutsche Bank, respectively the buyer of the Bulgarian Telecom Company in 2004 and the advisor of the Bulgarian government in the sweetest deal of the past decade, seem t
We have seen many times this circus which is being played out during the entire week and it only shows one thing - there is no need of a caretaker government in Bulgaria.
You have certainly noticed how many times President Rosen Plevneliev used the phrase “a broad-minded person” referring to almost every member of his caretaker government.
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