Sergei Stanishev News

Stefan Yuroukov, the former head of the State Forestry Agency, is accused of authorising a number of land swap deals despite an imposed moratorium.

Margaret Beckett has hailed yesterday's entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union as good for Britain and Europe.

The PL leader Joseph Muscat on Sunday departed from Malta and went to the Czech Republic where he will attend the Congress of European Socialist Parties in Prague.

Finance Ministry inspectors have been asked to audit Bulgarian Energy Holding and the way in which the company spent 700 million leva in state funding allocated under the previous cabinet, Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov said during question time in Parliament on November 27.

Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov's use of pizza to illustrate the 2010 Budget thin crust, scant topping inspired two Sofia restaurants to turn into reality the Dyankov Pizza; but Bulgaria's political pantry offers many more possibilities.

Nikolai Tsonev, who was defence minister in the closing years of Sergei Stanishev's government.

Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which was a partner in Bulgaria's two former governing coalitions, from 2001 to 2009.

Prime Minister Boiko Borissov looks set to see his candidate, Education Minister Yordanka Fandukova, win Sofia's mayoral contest.

Conflicts between Bulgarian presidents and prime ministers have never helped either side.

Two MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, now in opposition, voluntarily gave up their MPs' immunity from prosecution following a request by Prosecutor-General Boris Velchev.

The website for Bulgaria's Chief Directorate for Combating Organised Crime was briefly hacked on November 12.

Left to right: Simeon Saxe-Coburg, Ahmed Dogan and Sergei Stanishev at the Lozenets state residence before a meeting of the tripartite coalition council in December 2008.

Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, leader of the leftist Bulgarian Socialist Party , has given up his immunity from prosecution in the face of pressure from the country's state attorney and the Bulgarian Parliament, after Stanishev allegedly leaked state secrets.

Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova has asked Parliament to strip her from her MP's immunity from prosecution, Bulgarian news agency BTA said on November 6 2009.

In the midst of the row about whether or not former prime minister Sergei Stanishev had misplaced secret State Agency for National Security documents, Prosecutor-General Boris Velchev made some astonishing suggestions.

The Bulgarian Cabinet has passed a bill aimed at expediting delivery of medication necessary to combat the new H1N1 influenza, Dnevnik daily reported.

Former prime minister Sergei Stanishev, leader of the biggest party in opposition, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, has filed a request before Parliament to voluntarily give up his MP's immunity from prosecution following Prosecutor-General Boris Velchev's insistence that he do so, news agencies said on November 4 2009.

Prosecutors will request Parliament to lift former prime minister Sergei Stanishev's immunity from prosecution, Bulgarian-language Dnevnik daily quoted Sofia city prosecutor Nikolai Kokinov on November 3 2009.

Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security had operated on a chaotic basis and some agency staff had behaved like organised crime groups, former SANS deputy chairperson Ivan Drashkov told bTV on October 28 2009.

A half-empty parliament adopted a declaration that slammed the persistent absence of the opposition Socialist and ethnic Turkish parties leaders.