Send to Kindle
Bulgarian Socialsit Party leader Sergey Stanishev shows the signatures said to be gathered by citizens. Photo by BGNES
The Bulgarian Socialist Party hopes that the date will be set for a referendum on the fate of the abandoned Bulgarian-Russian Belene Nuclear Power Plant project by the end of 2012.
On Friday, the party filed 770 000 signatures in support of the referendum in the Bulgarian Parliament.
BSP leader Sergey Stanishev pointed out that the referendum would be the first one in the country since the fall of the Communist regime back in 1989.
500 000 signatures were needed to call a referendum in support of the Belene NPP project.
After years of indecision, Bulgaria's government officially gave up on Belene at the end of March. The project was supposed to built by Atomstroyexport, a subsidiary of Russia's state-owned Rosatom.
The construction of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant would have cost EUR 10.35 B in the best case scenario, according to the estimates of Bulgarian government's consultant for the project, the HSBC bank.
The National Assembly rejected President Rumen Radev’s request to hold a referendum on whether Bulgaria should adopt the euro in 2026
A new attempt to call a referendum aimed at delaying Bulgaria’s transition to the euro would once again be unconstitutional and ultimately futile
President Rumen Radev has called on Bulgarian MPs to act on his request for a referendum on adopting the euro
Nearly 200,000 signatures have been submitted to the Bulgarian parliament for a proposed referendum addressing the country’s membership in the eurozone and the European Union
On Wednesday, Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted down a proposal by the "Greatness" party to hold a national referendum on whether the Bulgarian lev should remain the sole official currency until 204
The third attempt to organize a national referendum on delaying the introduction of the euro in Bulgaria failed once again
A new contract tied to the future construction of Kozloduy NPP’s seventh and eighth units was signed at the Council of Ministers between Kozloduy NPP–New Power Plants and the LEP-BWXT-CNPSA consortium
The Energy and Water Regulatory Commission has set the price of natural gas for December at 63.01 BGN per MWh, equivalent to 32.22 EUR per MWh
The Municipality of Gotse Delchev has approved one of the largest infrastructure projects in the region, granting unanimous consent to a cooperation agreement with the Swiss company
Turkey’s state-run energy company Botas reported a record loss of USD 1 billion (around 1.85 billion BGN) in 2024
Dimitar Georgiev, a Bulgarian financier and international markets analyst, stated that he does not anticipate any further increase in fuel prices in the country
Vladislav Panev, from the “Acceleration” Club and a former MP with the “Green Movement,” described the appointment of Rumen Spetsov as a special manager of Lukoil Bulgaria as surprising
Bulgaria's Strategic Role in the EU's Drone Wall Defense Initiative
When Politics Means Violence
