Bulgaria Monthly Digest: water crisis and Turkstream launch
– On December 21st, a state of emergency was declared in Pernik, a mining town in Western Bulgaria about 25 km away from Sofia. Water restrictions had been imposed there in mid-November and [...]
Bulgaria Monthly Digest: controversial new prosecutor general, and Gerb hold on to power
– On October 22nd the European Commission announced that the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) for judicial review in Bulgaria could be lifted because “the progress made [by the [...]
Bulgaria Monthly Digest: Protests Over Early Parole to Murder-Convicted Australian and Controversies Over the Upcoming Election of the New Prosecutor General
The last few months in Bulgaria were hot and stormy, just like the county’s political scene. Although the National Assembly had a long vacation, Bulgarians were not given a break from scandals [...]
Bulgaria Monthly Digest: Eu Parliament Election Confirms Balance of Power and Vice-President of Ruling Party Resigns
– The results of the European Parliament (EP) elections on May 26th in Bulgaria reconfirmed the balance of power in the National Assembly. The ruling Citizens for European Development of [...]
Bulgaria Monthly Digest: Fresh Report Show Decrease in Freedom of Speech and Pope Francis Visits Bulgaria
– According to a report released on April 30th by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, 22% of the country’s population live under the poverty threshold. Roughly 70% of Roma in [...]
Bulgaria Monthly Digest: real estate scandal, and the far-right gathers
– On March 21st , for the second time in one month, doctors, nurses, other healthcare providers, and citizens protested against low pay and poor working conditions in the public healthcare sector [...]
Bulgaria Monthly Digest: social protests are haunting Bulgaria
– The Bulgarian Northwest is the region with the lowest regional GDP per capita in the European Union, according to a Eurostat study published on February 26th. The GDP of this region [...]
Bulgaria Monthly Digest: nothing new on the southeastern front: corruption, poverty and discrimination in Bulgaria
– A Eurostat study published on January 15th show that 32.4 percent of retired people in Bulgaria are at risk of poverty. Estonia (46 percent), Latvia (44 percent), and Lithuania (37 [...]
Bulgaria Monthly Digest: “New Year – Old Luck”: Bulgaria prepares for election season
2019 brings not only one but two elections to Bulgaria; the European Parliamentary Election as well as Bulgarian local elections. Depending on the different outcomes, snap parliamentary elections [...]