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Bulgaria's Top Diplomat Asks MPs to Take Stand on Envoys Scandal [Dec 19, 2010] Bulgaria's Foreign Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, extended a request to the Parliament to issue an official political assessment of the diplomatic scandal shaking Bulgaria and its allies since December 14. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Shies Away from Sending Combat Battalion to Afghanistan [Oct 15, 2010] The announcements that Angelov made in July 2010 that Bulgaria will be starting to train a combat battalion for Afghanistan subsequently led to a scandal that nearly lost him his job as Prime Minister Borisov was infuriated by such statements when the Cabinet, not to mention the Parliament, never made any such decisions. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ruling Party Member Out of Key Posts [Sep 01, 2010] The executive body of Bulgaria's ruling party GERB has accepted the resignation of Genoveva Aleksieva as deputy chair of two parliamentary committees after she was tangled in scandal over alleged conflicts of interest. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Coastal Town Ex Mayor Charged over Real Estate Scandal [Jul 21, 2010] Bulgarias prosecutors have officially raised charges against the former mayor of the Black Sea town of Primorsko in the wake of a real estate scandal, involving senior judges, which has recently shattered the country. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria GERB Minister Tangled in Road Construction Scandal [Apr 20, 2010] The Minister of Regional Development and Public Works from Bulgaria's GERB cabinet, Rosen Plevneliev, had been tangled in a road construction scandal. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Prosecutors Probe Notorious Land Swap Deals [Apr 08, 2010] Bulgaria Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov has delivered a report on the notorious land swaps scandal to Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM Accepts Health Minister Resignation (Novinite.com) [Mar 31, 2010] Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has accepted the resignation of Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev after he was charged over the ?Tamiflu? scandal on Tuesday. Borisov said Wednesday that he had accepted Nanev?s resignation but added that he has not yet been dismissed from his post. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM Blames President for Impeachment Scandal (Novinite.com) [Mar 29, 2010] Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has blamed President Georgi Parvanov for starting the impeachment scandal while the country is in the middle of a financial crisis. [via YahooNews] More >>

New Scandal Shakes Bulgaria Supreme Judiciary (Novinite.com) [Mar 16, 2010] After the so-called Krasio the Black scandal shaking Bulgaria's judicial system, another Bulgarian Supreme Magistrate has been exposed Tuesday for alleged ties with crime bosses. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Conservatives Set to Support President Impeachment (Novinite.com) [Mar 11, 2010] Bulgaria's conservative Order, Law and Justice (RZS) party is set to support the President impeachment process launched by the ruling GERB party Wednesday over the transcript scandal. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria President Scandal Turns into 'Foreign Policy Disaster' (Novinite.com) [Mar 11, 2010] The transcript scandal involving Bulgaria President Georgi Parvanov and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, could grow in to a colossal foreign policy scandal, Blue Coalition MP Asen Agov says. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Govt to Propose Inquiry over President Transcript Scandal (Novinite.com) [Mar 10, 2010] Bulgaria?s governing GERB party will require the creation of a parliamentary committee of inquiry to investigate whether President Georgi Parvanov breached the constitution in the ?transcript scandal?. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Rightists Call for President Impeachment (Novinite.com) [Mar 08, 2010] The Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) party, which is part of the rightist Blue Coalition, demands a no-confidence vote for President, Georgi Parvanov, over the ?transcript? scandal. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM: President Planned to Start Finance Minister Scandal (Novinite.com) [Mar 08, 2010] Borisov concluded that ?the publication of the transcript and the fact that during their meeting the President read out an indictment against Djankov suggest that he had planned to start this scandal." [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria National Leader Apologizes for Causing Lufthansa Scandal (Novinite.com) [Feb 11, 2010] Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria?s nationalist party ?Ataka?, has apologized to the German company Lufthansa after he caused a scandal on a Sofia-Frankfurt passenger jet last week. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Magistrates Corruption Scandal 'Still Not Resolved' (Novinite.com) [Jan 11, 2010] Bulgaria Justice Minister, Margarita Popova, has stated that the ?Krasio from Pleven? magistrate scandal is still not resolved. Popova, speaking in an interview on bTV, said that Bulgarian magistrates themselves were to blame for the Krasio scandal and that the issue is still not resolved. [via YahooNews] More >>