The Prosecutor's Office has asked the State Agency for National Security to probe the issue of Sofia's waste crisis, Sofia's City Prosecutor Nikolay Kokinov informed Tuesday. The probe has a 30-day deadline.
The Sofia Municipal Council decided during an emergency meeting Monday to terminate the contract with the concessionaire in charge of cleaning the capital, the "Novera" company. The contract will be terminated around April 1.
The Mayor of Sofia, Boyko Borisov, declared Saturday that the Cabinet continued to mislead people and was going to have the same fate as the one awaiting the capital's waste removal concessioner. Borisov, quoted by the BGNES news agency, spoke during a
The Sofia Appellate Court postponed Friday the case against former Interior Minister Rumen Petkov for Aril 10. Petkov is charged with leaking a State secret.
A special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, said it will release the names of agents and collaborators, who are running for member of parliament in the upcoming general and European Parliament elections.
Bulgaria's opposition MPs have proposed amendments suggesting tougher measures for colleagues, who don't show up for bill voting and let others vote instead.
Over 2,000 prisoners could be pardoned as provided by the Amnesty Act, approved by the Bulgarian Parliament on first read Friday. The project for the new Act was submitted by the Ministries Council and aims at alleviating the blocked up judicial system
Emel Etem, Bulgaria's Minister of Emergency Situations, has been promoted to major, the department she heads announced.
Boyko Borisov, Sofia mayor and leader of Bulgaria's right-wing GERB party, who is widely believed to eye the prime minister office, said he was considering a Roma minister in his future cabinet.
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